Sentence examples for humiliating failure from inspiring English sources
The raid was a humiliating failure.
But his first two years were ones of humiliating failure.
Both of their relatively short-lived premierships ended in humiliating failure.
Trouble was, every time I had tried before had ended in humiliating failure.
It was a humiliating failure, attributable largely to the conflicting interests of the participants.
Caroline Flint, the shadow energy secretary, said this was a "humiliating failure" for the Lib Dems.
Trottier is a high-strung, tightly wrapped person with a vast history of tremendous successes and humiliating failures.
Yet we expect loyalty and lasting affection from them, and they from us, even as our lives become complicated by marriage, kids, humiliating failures, intimidating successes, rises and slips in status, surprises and dips in luck, illnesses, blessings, loss.
The public airing of bitter differences within the UN operation in Freetown comes at a particularly sensitive time as world leaders pledge to overhaul peacekeeping in Africa after a decade of humiliating failures in Angola, Somalia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
Bacevich's scorching litany of what he sums up as "grotesque and contemptible irresponsibility" is a bracing indictment of my profession, and how no one suffers consequences for even the most humiliating failures in prediction and analysis, as long as those failures favor the use of military force.
While the war hero-turned-statesman is a trope common to many countries in many eras, it has a particular quality and urgency here, based on our earliest history, when two centuries of Indian wars brought repeated raids on frontier settlements and humiliating failures on the part of the young nation's "protectors" to fend off those attacks or rescue captives.
