Sentence examples for desperate failure from inspiring English sources

To take such riches and make a side dependent on one man is a desperate failure of leadership.

In India's political life, and the case of Mr Singh, it is a desperate failure to push on with reform.Close friends spoke bluntly.

Where is the President, senator, or governor who feels not just disappointment but a desperate failure to connect when encountering young (or old) people who want to know why more isn't being done about climate change?

But the US's chosen course of action undermines its objective, resulting in damage to its reputation, a failure to win hearts and minds – evidenced by research showing 97% of Pakistanis opposed to US action within their territory – and culminating in what Smith calls the "desperate failure of US policy".

The "surge" is a desperate response to failure.

I was certainly not a fuckup — I was too desperate to avoid failure and disgrace for that — but on certain petty military challenges, duck soup for most lieutenants, I often barely squeaked by.

The tensions in Joop's family — the fighting parents; the distant, angry, hard-drinking and sometimes violent father; the weak mother; the nasty uncle who is a member of the Dutch Nazi party; the boy's desperate desire, and failure, to please his parents — serve as a backdrop to Joop's betrayal of Anne Frank.

Wilkinson can do just about anything at this point in his career, and he illuminates equally Joe's hubris and desperate fear of failure, while, with his perpetually worried eyes, Kinnear plays a JFK in constant pain — from his back, from his father's expectations, from his own infidelities.

The future appears bleak, city-managed rebuilding is a failure, and desperate times call for desperate measures.

The military operation by the Soviets was a desperate response to the failure of the Kremlin's political strategy.

"There was a desperate sense of our failure to prevent the thugs taking her away," C4's Miller said afterwards.