Sentence examples for disaster the failure from inspiring English sources
Or is the real disaster the failure of an independent Russia to cast off the chains of authoritarianism and empire?
His other books include The Radical Attack on Business, Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View, Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay, and The AIDS Disaster: The Failure of Organizations in New York and the Nation.
Prosecuting fraud and other crimes is certainly a government job, but as politicians rush to make larger reforms of the private sector, it is instructive to compare the responses to Enron and to a bigger disaster: the failure of Washington to protect Lower Manhattan on Sept. 11.
That's necessary because the MOOC disaster (the failure of large, free online college classes) proved that simply putting content online was not going to work.
Like previous assessments, the academy's report cites as a key contributing factor to the disaster the "failure of the plant owner [Tokyo Electric Power Co.] and the principal regulator [the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency] to protect critical safety equipment at the plant from flooding in spite of mounting evidence that the plant's current design basis for tsunamis was inadequate".
In the world's biggest dam disaster, the failure of China's Banqiao Dam killed an estimated 171,000 people in 1975.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland -- The dust from Iceland's spectacular financial disaster -- the failure of its three biggest banks and then the collapse of its economy in the fall of 2008 -- had barely begun to settle when the country set about finding someone to blame.
Authorities have faced widespread criticism over their handling of the disaster, particularly the failure to pass on warnings from the meteorological office to trekkers.
The lesson of the Gulf Coast disaster was the failure of government at every level — federal, state and local — and across party lines.
What Zebrowski does best is capture the slow, creepy unfolding of the disaster, and the failure of the brick-brained men in power, or anyone else, to recognize that something very, very bad was about to take place.
This shift is vital as significant demands will be placed on the humanitarian system through the expected rise in the number of people exposed to disasters, the rising number of weather-related disasters and the failure to resolve conflicts adequately and turn round failed states.
