Sentence examples for failures of character from inspiring English sources

"The death of soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines due to the failures of character among leaders is criminal.

She seemed not to care about the poor and the near-poor, whose misfortunes she tended to regard as failures of character.

Or really I do remember all those things, but not the way I remember my moments of weakness, my failures of character.

Their criticisms are irrelevant, he says, especially since they often rely on Freud's failures of character — his drug use, his lying — as proof that his whole enterprise was fraudulent.

His theme in one of the most religious speeches he has ever delivered was his "compassionate conservative" agenda; his message was that "failures of character" led American soldiers to abuse Iraqi captives at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.

President Bush received a standing ovation Friday from nearly 500 graduates of Concordia University here when he told them in a highly religious commencement speech that the "failures of character" of American soldiers who abused captives at Abu Ghraib prison "cannot diminish the honor and achievement" of more than 200,000 troops who have served in Iraq.

Not all will be good at it, but that isn't a failure of character.

Dr. Puhl worries that many celebrities cast their weight gain as a failure of character.

To support such a negative message shows a failure of character.

Maybe, Berninger ventures, defeat in this arena is not a failure of character or of generosity but simply the cost of a meaningful entanglement.

Vulnerable children were not protected by the male hierarchy of the church, which treated sexual abuse as a failure of character rather than a crime.