Sentence examples for broad failures from inspiring English sources
Bill Easterly, a former bank economist who now works at the Center for Global Development in Washington, raised questions about the examples in the report, arguing that it selectively reviewed positive statistics and countries but ignored some broad failures.
Asked about a call by David A. Kay, the former chief American weapons inspector in Iraq, for an independent investigation of what Mr. Kay said were broad failures in intelligence, Dr. Dean said he had opposed the war in Iraq because "I simply didn't believe what the president was saying".
But a decade after the 1983 report "A Nation at Risk" alerted America to broad failures in education, the news is not much better.
There was a broad failure to impose law and order early on.
The broad failure rate was confirmed by several senior military officials, including some who served in Iraq or the region during the war, and by senior intelligence officials.
The fact that existing industries would prefer more government support is neither surprising nor a sign of broad failure.In the end Mr Gross has the better argument.
China accounted for one-sixth of global wheat production that year, which could make a broad failure of the Chinese crop hard to replace immediately.
Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union sharply criticized the decision to single out Mr. Cox and said transit officials were trying to make one supervisor a scapegoat for senior management's broad failure to provide adequate safety precautions.
The One report acknowledges that "the G8's broad failure to create a better trade environment for African countries, notably the continuing gridlock of the Doha round of trade negotiations, stands out as one of the most clearly missed Gleneagles commitments".
That points to a pretty broad failure of Communities serving as a discovery feature.
Government debt accounts for just under half of the total, and is expected to continue to rise, reflecting a broad failure to rein in spending and embrace fiscal conservatism.
