Sentence examples for a tale of failure from inspiring English sources

This is why the history of counterinsurgency warfare is a tale of failure.

The story of the crash is, overwhelmingly, a tale of failure.

Gibson suggests that "the excuses begin to run thin, sieved through such a tale of failure".

"The Royal Tenenbaums," opening Dec. 14, is a tale of familial dysfunction, failure and redemption.

How Syracuse came to such a pass is a tangled tale of failures in public policies and changes in private tastes, but most of all, of economics.

For every Go Daddy success story, there's a Pets.com tale of failure.

This is not the story of a tabloid's triumph -- we received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for our articles -- but a tale of systemic and personal failures, of grand selfishness disguised as loyalty and palpable disdain for voters and the presidency.

Instead, the political and media industries have typically treated the rogue bankers as a tale of personal greed or market failure.

It is a tale of epic woe and personnel failure, that will punish Bills fans for the coming decade.

"It is the very sad story of squandered youth that stands at the heart of our region's epic tale of failure," says Fadi Ghandour, the Jordanian founder of Aramex, a global logistics firm, citing unemployment rates of 24% in Egypt, 27% in his own country, 30% in Tunisia and Syria, 39% in Saudi Arabia and 46% in Gaza.A shockingly large proportion of Egypt's unemployed young people are graduates.

But it is also a story of pride and greed, of military conquest undertaken to exploit natural resources (here gold, turquoise, garnets and amber), and a tale of the authority of empire undone by failure to account for the religion, culture and customs of the native population.