Sentence examples for devastating failures from inspiring English sources

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.

These men matter-of-factly talk about their work over the past decades, work that encompasses torture, spying and assassination and that includes some devastating failures of intelligence.

With its intractable conflicts and its irresolvable crises, its astonishing accomplishments and its devastating failures, the decade just gone by remains unnamed and unclaimed, an orphaned era that no one quite wants to own, or own up to — or, truth be told, to have aught else to do with at all.

The new plans for Mars exploration represent NASA's latest effort to recover from two devastating failures of Mars missions last year and take advantage of excitement over new findings by the Mars Global Surveyor, which suggest the presence of reservoirs of liquid water hidden under parts of the dry, cold Martian surface.

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.

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 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 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.