Sentence examples for collective failing from inspiring English sources

It's a collective failing.

This third presumption in particular implied a collective failing towards every child and adolescent at the school.

But for those of us who seek to tackle the world's collective failing in ensuring adequate nutrition for all, the battle is just beginning.

The second goal was an example, an apparently individual mistake that was a systematic one, a collective failing: Modric, unassisted, unaware and unwarned that Luis Suárez was coming up behind him.

The referee wouldn't issue a red card – so players aren't suspended for a collective failing – but the manager of the offending (or over-defending) team would be obliged to take off one player.

For example, some have argued that her analysis misrepresents hermeneutical resources as collective, failing to acknowledge the pluralism of interpretative communities and practices through which marginalized groups may have access to alternative interpretations of their experiences (Mason 2011; Medina 2012).

We will hang scarlet-letter test scores around their necks, and publicly shame them for our collective failings.

If the country wants a more reliable energy strategy, it will have to start by acknowledging its collective failings.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission had criticised police officers for "collective failings" for withholding the Kennedy tapes from lawyers representing the activists.

The potential misstep of Cosby, Oprah, Obama and Steele's other "bargainers" lies in pushing whites to confront their own racism, not criticizing black people for individual or collective failings.

The IPCC said there were "collective failings by a number of relevant parties" to ensure the tapes were properly disclosed to the activists' lawyers.