Sentence examples for a humiliating failure from inspiring English sources

The raid was a humiliating failure.

It was a humiliating failure, attributable largely to the conflicting interests of the participants.

That left the question of whether the sultan's refusal had spared him a humiliating failure.

Caroline Flint, the shadow energy secretary, said this was a "humiliating failure" for the Lib Dems.

At the time, though, the summit seemed like a humiliating failure, because it ended in disagreement over the United States' proposed launch of the Strategic Defense Initiative.

This is a humiliating failure by the Liberal Democrats and a betrayal of David Cameron's promise to be the greenest government ever.

They say it could help Mr Obama avoid a potentially humiliating failure to win support from Congress for military action, and spare a reluctant West armed involvement in Syria.

The Zune is a complete, humiliating failure.

Sometimes we can go for weeks or months riding a wave of growth and internal achievement only to slam headlong into a wall of humiliating failure.

From almost the very moment that the referendum result was declared, the handling of Brexit has been a story of unremitting and nationally humiliating failure.

Although the dramatist went on to stage his own work for many years, Eyre continued to advise him in an unofficial capacity, and after the humiliating failure of Hare's "The Secret Rapture" on Broadway, in 1989, again began serving as his director.