Sentence examples for grave failings from inspiring English sources

General Dan Halutz, the I.D.F.'s chief of staff, resigned during an investigation that identified "grave failings" in his generals' prosecution of the war.

Those developments improved Mr. Olmert's chances of surviving a formal inquiry that found "grave failings" in the handling of the 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

"Any objective reviewer of these grave failings must judge every single member of the Allied coalition to hold a share of the responsibility.

A report into hundreds of cases of "indescribably awful" child sexual exploitation in Oxfordshire has revealed a series of grave failings by the authorities – showing that social workers and police effectively turned a blind eye to the endemic abuse.

It observes "grave failings" on all sides, from the laboratory's "relentless" campaign to continue to market the drug "out of line with its medical properties", to the health authorities' cumbersome bureaucracy.

JERUSALEM — In a widely anticipated judgment, a formal inquiry released Wednesday found "grave failings" among Israel's political and military leaders in the 2006 Lebanon war, especially in their failure to decide what kind of war to fight.

For Sir Geoffrey, that is another grave failing.

The lower house of Parliament approved a bill that would make a president immune from prosecution while in office but create a United States-style impeachment procedure before Parliament in any case of "grave failing".

But if Biden-as-my-son couldn't own up to his own errors, refrain from self-justification or, for heaven's sake, self-righteousness, and engage in sincere contrition — that I would consider a grave failing.

The senators should also hold Mr. Brennan to account for one of the administration's gravest failings: its refusal to openly discuss the legal basis for America's campaign of targeted killings of terrorism suspects, including Anwar al-Awlaki, the American citizen and radical imam who was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in September 2011.

Is Rob's difficulty the result of some grave personal failing, or are we meant to think that this is a problem that could affect any one of us, if we're not careful?