Sentence examples for hideous failure from inspiring English sources
Another section describes as "a hideous failure" a series of meetings in 2000 that United States officials held with Latvian officials to pressure them to pursue suspected Nazis.
They drug war has failed in the last 50 years, it's been a hideous failure," she said, describing the dispensary raids as a giant waste of money.
"This tragic case is also a hideous demonstration of the failure to address drugs and alcohol-fuelled feral violence amongst teenage gangs.
Then came this new phase: the aftermath of the Arab spring, the hideous violence of Syria, the failure of Iraq (and of western policymaking in the Middle East), regional squabbles, renewed Shia v Sunni competition and the rise of Islamic State.
He jabs the air at all the right moments; he rails against the administration's failure to find W.M.D., at its hideous lies, at the fact that it "led this nation into a war under a pretense".
But what really counts is that Schimmelpfennig, in portraying the failure of liberal intellectuals to confront the hideous legacy of the past, has written a potent play for today.
It consists of multiple medications (including the daily injection) that can cause hideous side effects, such as deafness, psychosis, and liver failure.
There were lamentable failures in the subsequent US occupation, which allowed the rise of the hideous sectarian violence that threatened to tear the country to pieces.
Hideous deaths (by genocide, starvation, and epidemic) are most of what people retain of the clutch of iniquities and failures that have taken place in postcolonial Africa.
