Sentence examples for grave failure from inspiring English sources

Under Labour, Britain has slipped down the international education rankings.Another grave failure has been in welfare.

They criticised the "grave" failure of prosecutors to hand over thousands of pages of documents containing intelligence gathered by the Met about the corruption allegations.

Given the economy, you draw important attention to a grave failure in America's social policy: a growing number of low-income single parents cannot afford to work because of the overwhelming cost of child care.

An internal review of how the United Nations handled the bloody final months of Sri Lanka's civil war in 2009, when as many as 40,000 civilians were killed, has concluded that the response was "a grave failure of the U.N.," according to a leaked draft of the report.

An internal review of how the United Nations handled the bloody final months of Sri Lanka's civil war in 2009, when as many as 40,000 civilians were killed, has concluded that the response was "a grave failure of the U.N.," according to a leaked draft report.

As matters now stand, this council will not even mandate the dispatch of human rights monitors to Syria – a grave failure that may doom the prospects for peaceful protest in the face of a regime that knows no limits". Rice accused Russia and China of looking the other way as attempts at a peaceful settlement have been spurned by Assad.

He found "grave failures of public administration".

Hacked Off said newspapers have shown "no real regret for the grave failures identified in the report of the Leveson inquiry, nor have they engaged in sincere dialogue with the public, with parliament or with us".

Sir John's ruling named solicitors responsible for "very grave failures" of disclosure in three cases.

In his ruling, Sir John said it was "deeply regrettable" that in each of the three cases there had been grave failures to comply with the long-standing principle of full disclosure.

Contrasting these grave failures with the refreshingly critical reporting on Hurricane Katrina a rare event that caught officials off guard, enabling journalists to enter a no-spin zone—When the Press Fails concludes by proposing new practices to reduce reporters' dependence on power.