"These estimates reveal a staggering failure," says John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network.
James Horn, the vice-president of research and historical interpretation at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, in Virginia, said that there was a staggering failure rate among all of the colonizing nations of Europe.
Over the last two years, we've all witnessed the emergence of Super PACs, representing a perverse and staggering failure of our laws.
Critics of the bank pounced on that bonus, and many others it doled out, with one calling them a "staggering reward for failure".
The incuriosity, inattentiveness and unresponsiveness of the Enron board were staggering failures of conduct that no law can fully prevent.
Here is an excerpt: And then there was failure: none greater than the staggering, staining failure of The New York Times to depict Hitler's methodical extermination of the Jews of Europe as a horror beyond all other horrors in World War II — a Nazi war within the war crying out for illumination.
AND then there was failure: none greater than the staggering, staining failure of The New York Times to depict Hitler's methodical extermination of the Jews of Europe as a horror beyond all other horrors in World War II -- a Nazi war within the war crying out for illumination.
The department's resistance and the inherent inadequacies in the original settlement have caused a staggering rate of farm failures among small-scale black farmers: three times the rate for white farmers.
To modern eyes, this is a policy failure of staggering proportions.
Outraged at the failure to prevent protests on February 14 , 20 and March 1 a staggering number of hardliners within the government have frenetically issued calls for the execution of Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Moussavi.
