Sentence examples for failing upwards from inspiring English sources
They did not have the option of failing upwards.
But failing upwards has been a Langley specialty over the past decade.
That's what I feel, I see men failing upwards and you go: 'I've worked with them and they were awful.'" It is changing, she says.
She's Katherine, a policy adviser who finds herself shunted sideways from Whitehall to Northampton where she's mortified to find her recommendations for a new "Immigration Pathway" being thoroughly derailed by new boss Danny Sacha Dhawann), a classic example of someone failing upwards.
We're all failing upwards.
We have an epidemic of failing upwards and rewarding that failure in American Big Business.
It was against this background of failing-upwards that Homer, who was also made a Dame in the New Years Honours List, was catapulted to the top of HMRC - you know, the entire mechanism by which the government gets the money it then spends on stuff.
After investing in new decor, equipment and staff retraining, many of the formerly failing stores have shown growth upwards of 20 percent.
It may be seen from Fig. 5 and Table 3 that except for free boundaries, α x and β y are always negative, implying that for non-free boundaries the curvature of the first failing truss is concave, i.e., the tip of the outrigger truss tends to curl upwards at collapse.
