Sentence examples for failing common from inspiring English sources

Early records of Buddhist presence in China depict the arrival of this foreign religion as at once intriguing and unsettling a confrontation with cultural difference, not as an objectively observable fact, but as a subjectively troubling experience of failing common sense (Sakai 1997).

This points to a failing common to many of the international tribunals, which is a tendency by the prosecution to have one eye on the bar of history by presenting an overblown case, rather than one which is more tightly focused and can be completed within a realistic timescale.

You have also got a Europe that presides over failing behemoths – common agriculture and fisheries policies.

Mr Lammy identifies two broad failings, common to Labour policymakers and the rioters, and still evident in Britain.The first is a tendency, wrought by 1960s hedonism, to view the individual in isolation from society.

And Congress has shamefully and disgracefully failed to act, failing to adopt common sense, sensible gun violence prevention measures like background checks, a ban on firearms trafficking and straw purchases and mental health initiatives.

(Social drinking a common failing of waxwings).

How nobly free you seem to be of this common failing of mankind".

The most common failing cited by investors is a breach of fiduciary duty by their brokers.

Their principal and common failing is a refusal to recognise reality.

Hence, in this paper, we propose a two-level scheduling method (TSM) to overcome this common failing.

(A few of the mussels were gritty or past their prime, a very common failing in restaurants).