Sentence examples for believe a failure from inspiring English sources

A star of silent films, she managed to overcome a stammer when the talkies arrived and was not, as Welles wished us to believe, a failure.

"CCW believes a failure to do so will have severe and unacceptable impacts on the landscape," it said in a statement.

I know there are those who have been frustrated by our unwillingness to use our military might to depose Assad, and believe that a failure to do so indicates a weakening of America's resolve in the region.

Most genuinely believe that a failure to achieve an international agreement in Copenhagen would be catastrophic.

Some economic forecasters say they believe a wave of business failures in New York and elsewhere could come soon after the first of the year, as retailers and other entrepreneurs succumb to the continuing lack of new business in what is traditionally their busiest season.

"And to permanently exclude is, I believe, an admission of failure on our part".

Chief of the General Staff Nikolay Makarov believed an engine failure could have caused the crash.

(Lydgate dies at fifty, believing himself a failure: "He had not done what he once meant to do").

He has also written to children's minister Edward Timpson to raise his concerns about what he believes was a failure of the judiciary to protect his granddaughter from her abusive and violent father.

In addition, opinion polls suggest Americans remain wary of a strike against Syria, with only one in five believing that a failure to respond to chemical weapons attacks would embolden other governments, according to an Associated Press poll concluded on Monday.

Although Butcher never achieved financial success or artistic recognition, and died believing himself a failure, his work has endured.