Sentence examples for failure of proportion from inspiring English sources

In the farcical "So I was at home doing the washing up", an account of differing and strongly held opinions on how much washing up liquid to use becomes a defence of personal freedom and of identity itself, a failure of proportion recalling Heinrich von Kleist's nightmarish novella Michael Kohlhaas, where a man robbed of his horses and seeking redress ends by plunging Germany into civil war.

That I could not prevent this was a failure of epic proportion.

The VW disaster is a leadership failure of epic proportion.

In sum, this is truly an unacceptable human failure of global proportion -- and it is the drug laws themselves that tear apart the fabric of this nation.

We proposed above that the failure of a proportion of vacuoles to load with IRG proteins even during infection with avirulent T. gondii could be due to some form of maturation towards resistance to IRG loading induced by the parasite.

The lack of sexual selection integrated into captive breeding programs may explain why the success of captive breeding programs has been mixed, with some programs being deemed unsustainable in part because of failure of some proportion of pairs to reproduce (Snyder et al. 1996; Leus et al. 2011).

I think I would be a failure of huge proportions.

This is a diplomatic failure of inglorious proportions.

Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo called the summit a failure of epic proportions.

This current crisis is a failure of major proportions for the government.

The Senate Banking Committee chairman, Christopher J. Dodd, said the Madoff fraud was a regulatory failure of historic proportions.