Sentence examples for devastating failure from inspiring English sources

It is most difficult of all when devastating failure is imminent.

The mission also carried enormous political risks, since a failure would have been seen as devastating failure of the country's new political leadership.

He abruptly resigned as captain last year before a home series against Zimbabwe, blaming 'moderate success and devastating failure' during his two years at the helm.

The Royal Blues have become specialists in failure under Heldt; the banal but devastating failure to use their considerable resources – they are the 13th richest club in Europe in terms of turnover – in a competent manner.

The agency had to confront its own devastating failure earlier this year when a strike in Pakistan killed two Western civilians who had been taken hostage by al-Qaeda.

The report sums up a chapter of devastating failure by the Labour government in its policies and postures towards defence and the armed services, in which Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and their senior civil servants, and some service chiefs, must shoulder a fair amount of the blame.

A biography of Churchill is in some ways a biography of the British people, with all their remarkable successes, devastating failures, occasional silliness, arrogance and insouciance, and finally their incredible bravery.

In the history of American journalism, the Sun, in its early twenty-first century iteration, may come to be seen as a sort of sidebar to the Bush Presidency; it tended to support the White House's wildest adventures — in economic and war policy alike — long after it became clear that they were devastating failures.

It is no coincidence that two countries whose armies suffered devastating failures in 2014, Iraq and Ukraine, are among the countries that have been exposed most fiercely to the bad mentoring of outside agents promoting free-market solutions to problems that could only have been solved by the state-led reconstruction of universal networks.

In the history of American journalism, the Sun, in its early twenty-first century iteration, may come to be seen as a sort of sidebar to the Bush Presidency; it tended to support the White House's wildest adventures in economic and war policy alike long after it became clear that they were devastating failures.

Many of the devastating corporate failures we are witnessing have their roots in similar dynamics.