Sentence examples for failures that contributed from inspiring English sources

Perhaps Congress should commission a study of its own failures that contributed to the terrorists' success.

The National Academy of Engineering is looking into the technical failures that contributed to the disaster.

"Bovis regrets the failures that contributed to the deaths of Firefighters Beddia and Graffagnino," the statement said.

The seven-member commission named by President Obama to investigate the BP accident looked at the regulatory failures that contributed to it, and its conclusions were blunt.

The inquest has also heard testimony that several hospital protocols were not followed, amounting to system failures that contributed to Dr. Halappanavar's death.

Certainly not the prison that an inquest jury last week found responsible for 12 critical failures that contributed to Jake hanging himself with a bedsheet.

He meant that his government would be as determined to correct the social policy failures that contribute to crime as it would be to punish offenders.

She integrates an inward, deeply compassionate depiction of a woman who is the victim of rape with an incisive view of the many societal failures that contribute to the crime, including legal failure to face the prevalence of rape, and the over-all prudishness and sexual censoriousness that make the crime unspeakable in the literal sense and end up shaming the victim.

We rarely address the other institutional failures that contribute to an event like this, such as joblessness and cracks in the health care system.

Christopher Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, admitted on Friday that his agency's "voluntary regulation" of investment banks was a failure that contributed to the current crisis.

Abramson clearly should have conferred earlier with Baquet, a failure that contributed to the impression that she could be an unskilled and insensitive executive.