"What underlies this is a larger failure of the marketplace to properly price drugs," he added.
Mr. Rauchway, the historian, argues that the ultimate failure of anti-immigrant politics is part of a larger failure of class-based politics in the United States.
The cities are crippled, too, by a collapse of municipal services that hints at a larger failure of governance in the country.
These issues are symptomatic of a larger failure of nerve, as Bintley too often opts for comedy or stage spectacle, as if to compensate for the complexities of his story and score.
"The Master" is, of course, a novel, and Toibin isn't bound by the facts; but the way that he's loaded the dice against James here suggests what is, to my mind, a larger failure of sympathy.
Early Monday morning, Lehman said it would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York for its holding company in what would be the largest failure of an investment bank since the collapse of Drexel Burnham Lambert 18 years ago, the Associated Press reported.
In its crucial final minutes, "Tadpole" loses faith in Oscar, and the movie's slack, cynical ending feels not only like a betrayal of its protagonist but also like a larger failure of imagination.
The lawless steroid era stands as the largest failure of his long tenure as commissioner; the Biogenesis case has emerged as his opportunity to if not rewrite history then at least dole out some rough justice.
WASHINGTON — The collapse of the proposed rescue plan for the teetering financial system was the product of a larger failure — of political leadership in Washington — at a moment when the world was looking to the United States to contain the cascading economic crisis.
And for the chief presidential candidates, or at least for Dr. Dean, for Gen. Wesley Clark and, intermittently, Senator John Kerry, the war in Iraq became the central metaphor for the larger failure of the Bush administration to make Americans feel safe in a deeply unsafe world -- the thin edge of the wedge that would dislodge "the old paradigm".
