Sentence examples for had been failures from inspiring English sources

His two marriages had been failures; a daughter born out of wedlock seems to have disappeared from history; of his two sons one was schizophrenic, the other estranged.

In a passage that particularly impressed his hearers, he acknowledged that there had been "failures" on the part of Catholics in the past, referring to the now outmoded polemical approach to reunion and to insistence on matters of prestige.

Asked at a press conference if he had considered resigning over the Ankara attack, interior minister Selami Altinok denied that there had been failures in security preparations for the planned peace rally.

He apologises to them when he appears in October, admitting there had been failures.

But, "there had been failures in rats and pigs--therefore you could argue that it wasn't obvious".

At the design phase of this study, it was decided that the number of patients with missing values for data relevant to assess whether the standards had been met (e.g., patients not answering the VAS, RMQ or NDI questionnaires) would be registered and, if ≥ 10%, a sensitivity analysis would be performed assuming that all missing data had been failures.

There have been failures.

"These have been failures," he said.

Durban, Kyoto, Copenhagen – all have been failures.

There have been failures on Obama's watch, of course.

There have been failures too: a handful of academies have been failed in Ofsted inspections.