Sentence examples for notable failure of from inspiring English sources

It was a notable failure of his early leadership that perhaps explains his silence in last week's case.

It was consolidation of a kind, but not one that reduced the number of financial supervisors.Another notable failure of American regulation was the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), a hedge fund based in Greenwich, Connecticut, which had around 20,000 derivatives contracts with 75 different counterparties outstanding.

"But the U.S. can lead that effort only if it maintains an effective strategic arsenal at a level sufficient to fulfill its deterrent purposes, a notable failure of the current Administration.

A notable failure of the observers, including McClellan, was that they neglected to explain the importance of the emergence of rifled muskets in the Crimean War, and how that would require fundamental changes in tactics for the coming Civil War.

Among the most notable failures of the report – and the department – is the inability "to determine who issued the order to cancel bus service" at Mondawmin mall on 27 April, where hundreds of students found themselves stranded and face to face with lines of officers in riot gear, according to Lawrence Brown, a professor at Morgan State University who was involved in the protests.

It would also have had a stronger case had the government not itself made notable failures of regulation and hence been at least partly to blame for what went wrong, including the catastrophic decision by Gordon Brown to suspend competition rules so Lloyds could take over HBOS, which made the banking crisis much bigger.

Tellingly, one of the most notable failures of this kind of migration happened on the very ground where Israel sits today.

These results are consistent with a recent systematic review which concluded that environmental interventions can increase children's physical activity, although there were few studies on younger children and some notable failures of apparently heroic interventions [5].

A notable failure was the spinoff of corcoran.com, a Web site she thought would expand her firm internationally.

Timan Pechora is already known for a notable failure -- a consortium of Russian and foreign partners that included Texaco, Exxon, Amoco and a state-owned oil producer, Rosneft.

Wal-Mart's rebranding effort comes in the wake of one notable failure in its clinic business.