Sentence examples for by a perceived failure from inspiring English sources
There is a mutual antipathy – stoked, some believe, by a perceived failure on the part of Egypt to assist Algeria's efforts to throw off French colonial rule.
Lord Adonis, who was transport secretary in the last Labour government, and the RAC technical director, David Bizley, called for a review of cycling superhighways in the capital, while charity CTC said it was "sickened" by a perceived failure to protect cyclists.
A perceived failure by the PLA to show concern for Chinese lives in Libya would not have gone down well with the country's fiery online nationalists (to whom the country's leaders appear to pay considerable attention).
Furthermore, complaints made by patients often focus on a perceived failure of communication rather than on clinical errors (Department of Health, 2000).
Activists are especially outraged over the case of Keith Davis, who was shot by police and later charged with murder, because of a perceived failure to disclose evidence to the defense.
Success led the Ducati racing team to stop learning, and only a perceived failure caused it to start again.
They want President Dmitry Medvedev to be confronted over a perceived failure to protect business against corruption.
Representative Raul Gonzales recalled the boost former President George Bush enjoyed after the Persian Gulf war in 1991 -- only to be undercut by his perceived failure to manage the economy.
If the final episode of the season of a drama or comedy – or, still worse, the final ever programme of the franchise – doesn't finish convincingly, then much of the pleasure or success that went before can be compromised by the perceived failure, in industry jargon, to "land" the show well.
