Sentence examples for plain failing from inspiring English sources

However, when American corporations are losing their global competitiveness at an alarming rate or just plain failing (General Motors, Chrysler, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns... and the list goes on, sadly) compliancy is not an option.

When you're rushing to fill a position or just plain failing to evaluate potential candidates, you run the risk of bringing on an employee who may not have the skills, experience, or overall fit for the company.

The 21-year-old Uruguayan has not been finding life at the Calderón plain sailing, failing to get back into Diego Simeone's team after an injury in September.

Aside from the most obvious slip-ups, such as leaving passwords in plain view or failing to report a lost or stolen corporate device, many people today are uploading personal and corporate information into third-party, collaborative platforms without thinking twice about how secure this action might be.

The next question is what happens if it becomes plain that Corbyn is failing and Labour's fortunes remain dismal, or sinking yet lower.

"That new products are coming on to the market that are actually higher in sugar than their predecessors, such as plain Weetabix, shows a failing by the government in tackling food companies".

Each failing Northern Plains farmer further endangers another species, the small prairie town.

On the eve of the Taliban takeover, he traveled widely through the mountains of the north, into the eastern plains and around Kabul, failing only to reach the central highlands of Nuristan after a militia captain pointed out that blocking his way were "2,000 enemy troops, not one of whom would hesitate to kill you... for your jacket.

After all, in September 2000, he spent six days on a plain in Spain trying and failing to make the film.

So whether or not the District Court was correct in excluding the evidence under the § 1 charge, it is now before us; and a consideration of it makes plain that the requirements of the failing company doctrine were not met.

Scottish planners and ministers were given a red mark for failing to deal with flood plain developments and for failing to make progress on soils and agriculture; there was an urgent need to address this.