Sentence examples for failure of individual from inspiring English sources

One theme is that banking regulators shouldn't try to prevent the failure of individual firms.

Like Iraq, New Orleans represented a failure of individual leaders, but also of national institutions.

The most shocking failure of individual responsibility is the decline of marriage and rise of nonmarital births.

The Event Heap is flexible, robust to failure of individual interactors, and sufficiently lightweight to be integrated easily with "legacy" single-user-GUI applications.

Previous studies of fatigue crack growth in corroded aluminum have revealed that multiple crack-nucleating corrosion features often lead to the failure of individual test specimens.

He was the first pope to pray in a synagogue, the first to acknowledge the failure of individual Catholics to deter the Holocaust and the first to call anti-Semitism a sin "against God and man".

"The behavior was the disgraceful failure of individuals," Stephen Hester, the bank's chief executive, said during the hearing.

"In the United States," Dr. Klinenberg said, "such deaths are seen as an act of God, a natural disaster or, in some cases, the failure of individuals to take care of themselves".

Commenting on one of the key factors, the report concluded: "Obesity is caused not by moral failure of individuals but by the excess availability of high-fat, high-sugar foods".

She cites the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, whose architect, Philip Zimbardo, became something of a media celebrity during the Abu Ghraib trials, arguing that the abuses committed there were the result of the system, not the moral failure of individuals.

One of the many skills that we try to teach our Cornell students is how to make sense of this morass of social statistics, to think about the bigger picture, and to understand that the success and failure of individuals does not take place in a vacuum, as Kendra mentioned.