Sentence examples for almost total failure from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UPI) —Government efforts to help provide decent housing for migrant farm workers have been an almost total failure, a private, nonprofit group said today.

Ironically, Herbert Kupferberg, former music critic for The New York Herald Tribune and author of several books on musical subjects, describes the original play by Peter Shaffer as "superficial in its almost total failure to probe Mozart's mind and character". I can't think of a better way to describe this book.

But this was set in the context of almost total failure from his senior colleagues, of a six-ball duck from his skipper Michael Clarke, all achieved with authentic pulls and lofted drives rather than a tail-ender's slogs and snicks.

We all know that times are tough, and almost all of us agree on the cause: A massive Wall Street risk-binge combined with an almost total failure of regulatory oversight.

A U.N. mission to Afghanistan in May warned that the almost total failure of this year's harvest meant that 5 million people would require food aid to survive, the WFP said.

After 40 trips to Cuba, he calls the embargo "almost a total failure".Many Cuban-Americans put their faith in Mr Obama to soften the embargo, even if Congress will not lift it.

The attempt is bold, but its failure almost total.

Nevertheless, predictive cardiotoxicity using hPSC-CMs contrasts from failure to almost total success.

Also, this latter has a large mean time to failure and almost zero repair time in case of total failure.

As the clock ticked on, the Russian play was becoming less fluent as frustration began to set in at their failure to score despite almost total domination.

Making matters worse, the total failure of any accountability much less punishment will almost assuredly cause such recklessness to happen again, and probably soon.