Sentence examples for damning failure from inspiring English sources

He said there was a "damning failure" by the DfT which had to be put right.

In 2012 the award of the West Coast franchise was scrapped with an official report blaming a "damning failure" by the DfT.

An independent report last year by Sam Laidlaw - chief executive of Centrica, the owner of British Gas - found there was a "damning failure" by the DfT that led to ministers - who had not been told about flaws in the bidding process - awarding the contract after being given inaccurate reports.

We all know what was to come, and so every optimistic statement, every jocular dismissal of the financial threat, looks like a damning failure of foresight.

An official report blamed a "damning failure" by the DfT.

A report into the collapse of the £5bn West Coast Mainline franchise deal has blamed a "damning failure" by the Department for Transport (DfT).

It thinks of hardware as the seed of generational sagas and tends to damn failures for all time.

Jeremy Waxman Saltaire, West Yorkshire Is Robert Kitson "what England need is less rose-tinted optimism" (Lancaster damned by failure to improve the basics, Sport 5 October) any relation to the Robert Kitson who was one of six Guardian experts unanimously predicting an England victory on Saturday (Report, Sport, 3 October)?

The director of Age UK, Caroline Abrahams, said: "Excess winter deaths are preventable and today's figures are a damning indictment of our failure to address the scandal of cold homes in this country.

It will strongly criticise Tony Blair for promising George Bush that the UK would join the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 but keeping parliament and the public in the dark; attack ministers, mandarins and top brass alike for allowing Blair to delay military preparations; and damn the catastrophic failure to prepare for the subsequent occupation of the country.

Diamond, when his fire is up, is fond of damning dreary Brits for their failure to celebrate BarCap's success.