Sentence examples for a striking failure from inspiring English sources
Asli Aydintasbas, a columnist at the Turkish daily Milliyet, argues that the episode was a striking failure in diplomacy, for both the United States and Turkey.
A leading Democratic lawmaker said on Monday that a multibillion-dollar effort to better protect the nation's borders from terrorists had so far been "a striking failure," but Bush administration officials defended the ambitious project.
The audit cited a striking failure of memory among employees who were interviewed about sharing test materials.
If it doesn't, it will be a striking failure on the part of Trump, who's sold himself as a master dealmaker, and Ryan, who like most Republicans has wanted to repeal the ACA for years.
The report suggests a striking failure by the government-controlled Freddie Mac and its federal overseer to ensure that borrowers were treated fairly, even as news reports showed that abuses were broad and systemic and banks agreed to huge settlements to resolve abuse allegations.
These individuals demonstrate a striking failure to acknowledge or respond to people or objects to their left and are often oblivious of their existence.
Institutional Shareholder Services, the proxy advisory firm, said on July 27 that the entire transaction, not just the most recent proposal, was "thin gruel served cold — a clear and striking failure of governance by the entire board, not simply its chairman".
The most striking failure affected a previously unpublished object of immense value to the history of Arab metalwork.
The most striking failure was at the F.B.I., an organization with a carefully buffed image that bears little resemblance to its rocky day-to-day performance.
The upshot, given plausibility by the extremely serious problems of the eurozone, is a striking collective failure of civil society, particularly in England (not so much in Scotland), to think about the relationship with Europe with anything approaching realism or objectivity.
Dysferlin-deficient muscle initially showed a lower concentration of mononuclear cells (3 days post-injection), but there was striking failure to resolve the inflammatory process, continuing beyond the point where the muscle was repaired in control mice.
