Sentence examples for an expensive failure from inspiring English sources

The 32X was an expensive failure with little software support.

The adjudicator's verdict signals that such a strategy could be an expensive failure.

Its venture into gaming would appear to have been an expensive failure.

They claimed the stimulus was an expensive failure, even as they pressed to renew the high-end Bush tax cuts.

Her last undertaking, a lavish production of F.A. Mathews's A Soldier of France in 1897, was an expensive failure.

Two months later Huhne condemned the orders as Kafkaesque, a bad dream and a nightmare, that were "a violation of fundamental rights and an expensive failure to boot".

"Entirely unrepresentative vox pop: I met a Chinese guy tonight in Tufnell Park who said the Olympics were $25bn too expensive, an insult to poverty-stricken Chinese, and London 2012 will be an awful, expensive failure.

That would be a very expensive failure of a constitutionally mandated duty on Mr. Obama's watch.

Today, American officials and the Iraqis who were supposed to welcome our troops with rose petals or some such bullshit regard the reconstruction effort as an abject, expensive failure.

Meanwhile, the assault by the German 6th and 7th armies on the defenses of the French eastern frontier had already proved a predictably expensive failure, and the German attempt at a partial envelopment pivoted on Verdun was abandoned.

"I think this will turn into a very expensive failure, and the banking industry will pay a price for it," said Bert Ely, a longtime financial industry consultant in Alexandria, Va.