Sentence examples for long failure from inspiring English sources

But the long failure of the negotiations to limit emissions gases will be felt way beyond Paris.

Life is a long failure of understanding, Mrs. Palmer thought, a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

It would be churlish to blame Armstrong — this brave, talented man who briefly took us out of here — for the long failure that followed.

This question of state government's recent origins, and, conversely, of its long failure to originate throughout most of human history, is a fundamental concern for social scientists.

Adding to criticism of the bureau for its long failure to detect the alleged betrayal was a prison interview with an F.B.I. agent arrested for spying in 1996.

How Einstein's views changed in response to two core challenges, the advent of quantum mechanics and his three-decades long failure to extend general relativity to a "theory of the total field".

The fans know all about long failures in Boston and Chicago, things that happened before any of the current players were born.

Swift often tortured her with long failures to respond or unromantic answers, although there were intimate meetings and at least one ­proto-love letter.

America's failure to talk to Iran is as foolhardy as its decades-long failure to talk with Mao's China.

A decade-long failure to reform defence procurement has left an entire flight of helicopters idle on a Yeovil airfield.

However, a decades-long failure to build isn't the sole reason prices in London or Cambridge or Brighton or Chelmsford have gone stratospheric.