Sentence examples for essential failing from inspiring English sources

Kenny gives several pages late in the book to the failings of Bolt's depiction of More, the essential failing being in his view that More did not understand the conscience in the isolated sense that Bolt sees it, but as formed and guided by the consensus of Christendom.

Rather, the movie's essential failing is that Gluck and Lieber, in seeking to compensate for what they have perceived as Potter's timidity toward antic slapstick, and in replacing the fable-like simplicity of her stories with a knowing veneer of contemporaneity, have overlooked the suggestive darkness at the core of Potter's work.

The bill has three essential failings.

The design would use continuous image capture to try to improve quality, and to compensate for what are currently essential failings in the way mobile photography works.

4) Revising but not practising Revising is essential, but failing to put your new-found knowledge into practice is a big mistake.

"Tom Barrett knows equal pay for equal work is essential, and failing to stand up for Wisconsin women in the workplace is yet another reason he [Walker] must be defeated this summer," he said.

Publication of the case studies, which predominantly focused on hospital care, comes ahead of the release of a report by the Care Quality Commission on Friday into how many NHS trusts are failing essential standards.

The ASA said the overall impression was that the card could be used to fix problems that arose during a non-essential project, while failing to emphasise the potential risks of using credit.

The far greater gap between India and China is in the provision of essential public services — a failing that depresses living standards and is a persistent drag on growth.

One particular concern was to introduce better controls over the institutions "responsible for the indoctrination of the young": the schools, the universities, the churches, which were seen as failing that essential task.

The argument seems to be that, failing some essential definition of an assault weapon, no assault weapon can be believed to exist — not only should they not be banned, they cannot be banned because they are not a fixed, eternal category in the mind of the god of guns.