Sentence examples for perennial failure from inspiring English sources

The report points to a perennial failure of housebuilders and councils to meet to meet their targets for the supply of "affordable" housing in London as driving low-income households into the private rented sector.

Also contributing to "the inherent instability of the financial system," he says, are the vagaries of human behavior: "our innate inclination to veer from euphoria to despondency" and "our perennial failure to learn from history".

And Twain's description itself was so vivid, it inspired the animator Chuck Jones to create that perennial failure known to cartoon-loving children everywhere, Wile E. Coyote of Road Runner-hating fame.

Rap fans often attribute the perennial failure of "Britrap" to language, claiming that British speech patterns don't lend themselves to what is known in hip-hop as "flow," the crucial blend of phrasing, swing and personality that is a rapper's signature.

Believers from such predominantly Muslim countries as Bangladesh (population: 130 million), Indonesia (225 million), Morocco (30 million), Pakistan (145 million) and Turkey (65 million) have little affinity for one another-a fundamental fact that helps to explain the perennial failure of the long-vaunted pan-Islamic movement.

Believers from predominantly Muslim countries such as Bangladesh (population about 130 million), Indonesia (225 million), Morocco (30 million), Pakistan (145 million) and Turkey (65 million) have little affinity for one another a fundamental fact that helps to explain the perennial failure of the long-vaunted pan-Islamic movement.

And the Capitals -- at the outset an N.H.L.s laughing stock, then intermittently a contender in the days of Rod Langway and Mike Gartner, and later during the Peter Bondra-Ollie Kolzig period before the ill-fated Jaromir Jagr experiment -- are considered perennial failures, never able to fulfill whatever dreams they have or their fans have for them.

Rewarding their perennial failures with a promotion and reappointment represents a dereliction of duty by the Obama administration.

Author Robert Draper argued -- and many Republican operatives agreed -- that the GOP's perennial online failures have made it almost impossible for the party to communicate effectively with younger voters; voters who have developed a deeply hostile perception of the GOP brand.

They were the little brother, the perennial weakling, the failure who had to convince the league -- often with force -- that they were no longer anyone's kid brother, no longer the weakling, no longer the failure.

Their only success was in 2004, when they beat perennial play-off failures Bristol City in the Second Division final.