Sentence examples for failings in front of from inspiring English sources

Malky Mackay rued his side's failings in front of goal.

Jose Mourinho praised Swansea's last line of defence as Chelsea warmed up for the crunch clash with Liverpool with a slender win which exhibited his side's familiar failings in front of goal.

And the visitors were made to pay for their failings in front of goal when Norwich took the lead completely against the run of play, Morison stealing into the box when Mertesacker dallied unnecessarily on his clearance and sliding into the corner.

Long before Three Cups was exposed as a fraud, it was heresy for me to point out its failings in front of newly arrived COINdinistas and senior officers brought in by Petraeus (then still the commander of the CENTCOM theater).

He had taken several mortifyingly unproductive trips there before, and feared failing in front of his old friend again.

"Everybody always thinks their dog is failing in front of the camera, so I'll be trying to get the dog's attention and everybody will start trying to encourage them, too, which just results in masses of confusion.

"Because of my son... I'm failing in front of my son!

The ridicule that can come from failing in front of one's classmates can be devastating and not necessarily beneficial.

So basically, what makes it brutal (laughs), to use Keenen's words, is that you can only get better at it by failing in front of an audience.

These things have left me with a thick skin, but at 11 the idea of failing in front of a packed gymnasium still held a lot of weight.

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