Sentence examples similar to habitual failing from inspiring English sources

He was among the first doctors to perform careful studies of skid row drinkers and of talk therapies for addictive drinking — these at a time, in the 1960s, when habitual drunkenness was considered a moral failing and virtually the only treatment was to dry out.

A scholar of the Middle East as well as a habitual polemicist, Pipes argues, in effect, that by failing to identify and target Islamism itself, particularly Islamism within America, the administration misses the point.

Automated systems get around the problem of patients failing to take their medication or not replacing it (a habitual problem that hits Big Pharma's sales hard).

Democrats failing.

Public services are failing.

The economy is failing.

The government is failing.

The schools were failing.

Democracies are failing.

"It is failing.

This is my failing".