Sentence examples for a sweeping failure from inspiring English sources

The report also found that the police "systemically misclassified possible sexual assaults, resulting in a sweeping failure to properly investigate many potential cases of rape, attempted rape and other sex crimes".

But in a challenge to the official narrative, seven of Holtzclaw's accusers have filed a lawsuit saying they could prove the opposite: a sweeping failure of Oklahoma City and its police department to act on signs that there was a predator in their ranks.

And the movie, starring Matt Damon (who was cast, I'm guessing, due to his sheer rawness) was a sweeping failure on every level.

In such a context, to suggest the sweeping failure of the American military over these last decades without sapping support for the Pentagon and the military-industrial complex would involve making the most breathtaking stab-in-the-back argument in the historical record.

CARACAS, Venezuela — When a sweeping power failure left more than half the country without electricity last week, President Nicolás Maduro wasted no time issuing a verdict.

Not just grand, sweeping failures like losing everything, maybe, but silly little things, too.

After years of delay, the World Bank is taking action to address sweeping failures in its oversight of development projects that force people from their land or harm their livelihoods.

WASHINGTON — With the hours ticking away toward a self-imposed deadline, Congressional leaders conceded Sunday that talks on a sweeping deficit agreement were near failure and braced for recriminations over their inability to reach a deal.

Under the threat of Soviet invasion and U.S. occupation, these scientists and engineers wove that vision of hostile nature and technological failure into a sweeping political program to remake the post-war nation, and to express vulnerability, identity, status, and power during the early Cold War.

Its decision to demolish Prospect Plaza was not the result of a sweeping policy shift, but of the failure of a renovation project that became bogged down in years of administrative, financial and legal problems.

After failure to agree a sweeping U.N. treaty at a summit in Copenhagen in 2009, the easier but less ambitious aim now is a deal made up of "nationally determined" plans to help reverse a 45percentt rise in greenhouse gas emissions since 1990.