Sentence examples for considered failings from inspiring English sources

He had no dispute with it, Maclean wrote sardonically, 'as long as ignorance and crassness are considered failings in criticism of poetry'.

This performance is still considered "failing".

Those which do not, and fall short on other pupil progress measures, are considered failing.

In some areas, like East Harlem and the South Bronx, only a few schools were not considered failing.

One in five children failed to reach the required standard to start secondary school and almost 700 primary schools were considered failing this year because of their poor results.

NEW ORLEANS — BEFORE Hurricane Katrina, about 74 percent of this city's schools were considered "failing," based mainly on their standardized test scores.

Under federal law, schools are considered failing if they do not meet certain progress goals on achievement tests over two or more years.

Under the city's policy, children scoring at Level 2, which is still considered failing to meet academic standards, could be promoted.

Low scores were inevitable, they said, in a city where 60percentt of students were poor, where schools had been considered failing for decades.

Though officials said the game was not actually losing money, when sales per game drop below the amount of the top prize, the game is considered failing.

To win an appeal, pupils had to demonstrate class work consistent with a high Level Two, which is still considered failing, but just barely.