Sentence examples for routine failures from inspiring English sources

Many protests confront local officials with routine failures of social governance — wages withheld at a neighboring factory without just cause, a municipality's failure to maintain passable roads, teachers on strike over underfunded schools.

At their worst, as in California, they are humanitarian crises in which prisoners weekly die of routine failures of medical care (like providing simple medications) and at their best they tend to be secure warehouses which is what New Jersey seems to have.

That night in 2002, the Ginsbergs discovered what is often the stark reality of ambulance service in Suffolk County: a patchwork of autonomous and sometimes feuding ambulance companies whose ranks of volunteers are declining, routine failures to record crucial emergency data and waiting times of 30 minutes or more for an ambulance.

Subsequent investigations by The Times documented widespread delays in processing calls for help, routine failures to summon the closest medical rescuers from nearby jurisdictions and large disparities in the time it takes rescuers to get to life-threatening emergencies in different areas of the city.

Nor does its routine failure to explain the too-frequent deaths of the Kremlin's critics.

They received the best new artist award in 1979, beating Toto, Elvis Costello and the Cars, and exhibiting a routine failure of the Grammys: shortsightedness.

A routine failure among politicians and commentators on the liberal wing is to treat the anxiety of the middle as a shade of rejectionism – either closet prejudice or a naive susceptibility to that tendency.

"Deficiencies in judicial proceedings raise serious concerns about the trials, in particular the routine failure to comply with international fair-trial standards and due-process guarantees under Afghan law," said Georgette Gagnon, who represents the commission in Afghanistan.

New Jersey's child welfare agency has shown a "routine failure" to adequately investigate allegations of abuse and neglect in foster homes and state-run institutions, leaving thousands of children under its care at risk of harm, a study has found.

A21 NEW YORK/REGION B1-10 Study FiNew Jerseye Failure At New Jersey Agency New Jersey's child welfare agency has shown a "routine failure" to adequately investigate allegations of abuse and neglect in its own foster homes and state-run institutions, leaving thousands of children under its care at risk of harm, a study has found.

ALBANY — New York's chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, on Monday called the state's routine failure to provide lawyers for poor criminal defendants being arraigned in local courts a problem that "can no longer be tolerated," and pledged to remedy the situation within a year.