Sentence examples for chief failure from inspiring English sources

Ductile fracture at the first thread of the screw was the chief failure mode, which was due to maximum von Mises stress.

Sarah Tofte, a researcher who has studied the issue for Human Rights Watch, says the chief failure here is "to treat rape as seriously as other violent crimes".

Because his chief failure as a human being is his inability to understand how other people live as they do in their own distinctive ways.

By abiding by the three principals and having the ability and time to adapt, the security forces in Ulster have managed to maintain "an acceptable level of violence". The author is right to point out that the chief failure of Britain in both South Arabia and Northern Ireland was largely in the political sphere, not in the military.

This assessment stands as one of two chief failures of the C.I.A. under Tenet (the other being the agency's lack of tactical intelligence about the September 11th plot).

He had recently bought two hundred and fifteen letters of Greene's, from a collector in Finland; in one of the letters, Greene writes that "The Heart of the Matter" is "one of my chief failures".

His chief failures stem from incompetent execution.What is required when Mr Bush's term ends is a president no less committed to the exercise of American power when it is necessary, and no less willing to rise to external threats.

And now he has gone down with his ship — the victim of Mr. Rumsfeld's wrongheaded cost-cutting and the joint chiefs' failure to stand up to the civilian leadership.

Clark himself says that he's just angry at the commander in chief's failure to take responsibility.

Former Senate majority leader Trent Lott (R-Miss). joined a growing chorus of Republicans sharply criticizing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld because of the Pentagon chief's failure to call for more troops in Iraq and to properly equip troops serving there.

Nepal's Communist prime minister, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, caused a national crisis on Monday when he resigned and pulled his party from the ruling coalition in protest over the army chief's failure to integrate former Communist rebels into the military.