Sentence examples for chief failing from inspiring English sources

"The chief failing is on the part of the Bush Administration, of course," he says.

On the Nikon 1, a chief failing is its mode dial.

Critics of the 1980s often cite increased individualism as a chief failing.

The chief failing of the Levine era at the Met was the company's sparse, spotty record with contemporary opera.

The chief failing of today's energy system is its Stalinist, command-and-control architecture, conceived when power flowed only from giant plants to distant consumers.

Yet she defended Sackville's character; her chief failing, she argues, was that she refused to accept the hypocrisies of her age, which condemned not misbehavior, but indiscretion.

"George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for," Mr. Obama said at a midday forum here, listing the Iraq war, the strengthening of Iran and groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, Osama bin Laden's being still at large and stalled diplomacy in other parts of the Middle East among their chief failings.

He also lashed out at his fellow general, the army chief, for failing to make the south more secure, complaining that his work "does not meet our expectations".

The popular press is littered with anecdotes of chief executives failing to carry out their duties with the vigilance that shareholders desire of them.

"When I hear the president of the United States and his chief spokesperson failing to admit that we're in a religious war, it really bothers me," says Lindsey Graham.

The general's dismissal came just two days after Mr. Wahid replaced the national police chief for failing to resolve a series of bomb attacks and growing unrest.