Sentence examples for great failings from inspiring English sources

The risk is that he might succumb to one of Ed Miliband's great failings – and believe that, having given a single speech, he has done enough.

In Mr. Kulick's production, performed on a stylish set by Adrianne Lobel featuring planet-shaped blobs that hover above the stage, the episodic "Galileo" makes its points about a great man's great failings cleanly.

David Winston, a Republican strategist whose Winston Group conducts polls for the House Republican leadership, said: "One of the great failings of the Romney campaign was that they made the election a referendum on Obama, not a policy debate.

For him, one of the great failings of business schools has been their failure to instil a sense of inquisitiveness in their graduates, meaning that, as corporations were failing under their noses, board members often remained blissfully unaware.It is an accusation he doesn't feel can be levelled at his institution.

"This is a great case where we had a big responsibility to leap in with both feet and to strike out against what we have now discovered were some great failings on the part of Firestone and perhaps even Ford in protecting American lives on the highway," he said.

"It's been one of our great failings in Tesol that we've focused too much on the language and teaching methodologies, while ignoring vast issues to do with economics, politics and culture," says Alastair Pennycook, professor of language in education at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

That hasn't happened, which is a great failing on the part of the others standing.

This is a great failing in our social education about technology.

They are, but not because of any great failing on their part.

But there is a great failing in Draper's account of Bush as a war president.

"Perhaps a great failing in life is due to wasting time," the boy writes.