Sentence examples for profound failings from inspiring English sources

For all of Yeltsin's profound failings and the reflexes he had developed as a lifelong Communist apparatchik, he was rarely hostile to the press.

We have this on no less an authority than that of Bob Diamond, chief executive of the whole Barclays group and head of the investment banking unit when the profound failings identified by the FSA and US regulators occurred.

If, as is likely, Liberia receives the all-clear after going 42 days without any new cases of Ebola, the WHO will announce the end of a two-year epidemic that has killed more than 11,000 people, ravaged communities in three west African countries, and revealed profound failings in the international community's response.

His slip-up is symptomatic of Ukip's most profound failing: they are a one-policy party.

These are profound judicial failings, falling short not only of the standards of the Eichmann trial but also of the requirements of Bangladeshi law.

MI5 today expressed "profound regret" for failing to prevent the 7/7 bombings.

The revelation was the culmination of a compelling day in court, in which a top spy said MI5 felt "profound regret" over failing to prevent the bombings.

The verdict of Carol Midgley in the Times was largely positive for the new book, which centres on a writer's trip to Athens: "It is a rich, thoughtful read … There are some profound insights into human failings and frailty, into lack of self-awareness, though almost every character is in some way irritating, which makes it hard to care much about them".

For us, the stress of war was as much professional as profound, the fear of failing as gripping at times as the fear of getting hurt.

Circulating unstoppably online is an entire shadow oeuvre, generally trying, and failing, to sound profound, and breathing of passion.

He genuinely believed that he would be supported against the rebels, failing to comprehend the profound hostility that Laud's innovations had created in England.