Sentence examples for failing of a from inspiring English sources

Watergate and the (narrowly) lost election of 1976 were blips, the failing of a man, not of a party.

The way it folded with accordionlike pleats; its perfect combination of pliancy and stiffness -- these did away with the worst failing of a paper map, the cumbersome way it folds and unfolds, hostage to even the slightest breeze.

B3 NEEDIEST CASES B4 ARTS E1-10 SPORTS D1-8 StrawBarredBarred for a Year The baseball commissioner suspended Darryl Strawberry, 37, for 12 months in response to the Yankee star's failing of a drug test.

There can be a twilit sadness to this failing of a myth, explored most beautifully in last year's "Fishing in Utopia: Sweden and the Future That Disappeared," by the British author Andrew Brown, who lived there in the nineteen-seventies; but "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," both on the page and onscreen, largely dispenses with the melancholic.

Dael Wolfie, the publisher of Science magazine, who ‐wrote the Dec. 12 editorial, believes that anyone in the science post at the White House would face the same problems, which he regards as a product of the cur rent disillusionment with sci ence rather than the failing of a science adviser.

It's a piercing failing of a man of such mental fortitude.

It is sometimes the moral failing of an individual's choices.

[CFH nurse MCAFHNA] Several CFH nurses recognised that it was the system failing rather than a failing of an individual professional.

We agreed there probably wasn't, and wondered further, Was that a failing of book writers, or a further sign of the faltering literary temple?

Losing the meaning of "hate" is a failing of language, mostly, and a failure sloppy and stupid enough to impact other things.

It's the moral failing of our generation, a major factor in the corruption of women's sexuality.