The phrase "administrations has failed" is not correct due to subject-verb agreement; it should be "administrations have failed." You can use it when discussing the shortcomings or failures of multiple government administrations or organizations.
Example: "In recent years, many believe that administrations have failed to address the pressing issues of climate change."
Alternatives: "governments have failed" or "leadership has failed."
Each student is required by law to have an individual educational plan, or I.E.P. It's also true that the city, over many administrations, has failed many of these students.
At the same time, critics of the government charge that a series of Republican and Democratic administrations has failed to construct a sound energy policy to take into account shifts in demand and the complexities of the supply of oil and gas.
This government must act decisively where previous administrations have failed.
C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said administrations had failed to take action against China for various reasons.
Successive administrations have failed to build a repository for high-level (unrecycled) nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
"The reality of the situation in Ireland is that successive political administrations have failed to tackle vested interests," she said.
But successive administrations have failed to write regulations to enforce the laws, even when ordered to by the courts.
Successive U.S. Administrations had failed to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; perhaps the answer was to get as many people as possible on Facebook.
It is also worth asking whether the tax law is being widely flouted by political groups determined to avoid disclosure of their donors — and whether successive administrations have failed to enforce the law.
Worse, successive administrations have failed to hold Beijing to its trade promises enforcement has almost always been lackadaisical and neglected to take full advantage of the trade benefits previously negotiated.
The past three administrations have failed to come out and survey the damage to the Autism Gulf Coast.
