Sentence examples for acknowledged failure from inspiring English sources

Their last gathering, five years ago, was an acknowledged failure.

With some courage he has tacitly acknowledged failure, and now seeks a political settlement.

Although Bush acknowledged failure or disappointment on several fronts in Iraq, he pointed no fingers directly at al-Maliki.

BASKETBALL gave Rick Pitino the new wrinkles that go with the first acknowledged failure in his career.

It acknowledged failure, though it dodged accountability for that failure by the standard device of assuming personal responsibility.

This had been her idea, and her expression is one of ideal, acknowledged failure: mouth pursed, eyes beseeching, a blush setting in.

Mr. Lobo has acknowledged failures in fighting crime.

But in recent weeks, Puerto Rican government officials acknowledged failures in the documentation complicated by the telecommunications difficulties.

Under that agreement, the company acknowledged failures, agreed to safety reforms and paid a multimillion-dollar settlement.

Mr. Villaraigosa praised the report as a "promising first step" in making the department accountable for acknowledged failures.

The conservation commission's problems are longstanding: it has acknowledged failures that have led to a serious decline in the bluefin stock on both sides of the Atlantic.