Sentence examples for on a failing from inspiring English sources

The task she faces in remaking Newsweek is one of the biggest of a 35-year career that has included taking on a failing Tatler when she was just 25, as well as editing Vanity Fair (1984 to 1992) and the New Yorker (1992 to 1998).

"I know we are taking on a failing school, but I promise not to lower standards," Day said.

"Havana Affair" segues into "Listen to My Heart," which is the first of many songs in the Ramones repertoire that voice an ironic and pessimistic perspective on a failing or already failed relationship.

Is that a problem — widespread facts showing one thing, and widespread insistence on a failing strategy?

An acerbic New York TV executive at the fictitious IBS network (Jeff Goldblum, the film's one major asset) gives her a job on a failing breakfast show and she takes it further downmarket with the speed and determination of a Stuka dive-bombing a column of refugees.

Another blamed the whole thing on a failing memory.

That's a change from the past decade or so, where we had booster capitalism tacked on to a failing welfare model.

They can see it coming up because of a failing on their part or because they see it as outside their domain".

But he fears the effect of a failing economy on his son-in-law, a vice president at Toys R UsUs.

None of these attempts really caught on, betraying a failing in either the material or the approach to said material.

I spent a wretched weekend meditating on how a failing grade on my unbesmirched report card would wreak havoc on my entire family.