Sentence examples for official failure from inspiring English sources

Official failure to act on such advice gives ammunition to those who see PFIs as simply an accounting trick.

The response to Hurricane Katrina gave Americans such a devastating picture of official failure that it suggested something fatally wrong with an entire approach to governing.

Official failure to communicate with reporters making relatively trivial inquiries, often through mindless jobs-worth "no comment" responses by PRs, has the effect of creating unnecessary FoI requests.

The horrifying cost of official failure to confront widespread child sexual exploitation has been revealed in a damning report detailing how abusers exploited 1,400 children from a single town over 16 years.

In the final days before the Icelandic bank's official failure on 9 October, Kaupthing executives worked around the clock looking for ways to plug the widening liquidity black hole at KSF and placate the furious FSA.

The situation has caused Mr. Vajpayee and others in his government to warn Western nations in recent days to stop lecturing India about the official failure to prevent Hindu mobs from killing hundreds of Muslims.

Don't forget, but don't let official failures delay us.

But it can still secure a populist boost from voters, especially those angered by official failures to prevent terrorist attacks.

The defense is intent on putting government at all levels on trial, and has called Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco to testify, in an effort to highlight official failures.

This, too, began with a burst of enthusiasm and then ran into the sand, attacked by conservative Republicans as a whimsical notion that would cost too much money.These official failures, however, do not disguise the fact that America likes to see itself as a nation of volunteers.

What followed – reconstructed with witness testimony, photographs, video footage and interviews with friends of one of the security men – gives the clearest account yet of official failures, missed opportunities and individual bravery in what is one of the worst-disclosed terrorist attacks on record.