Sentence examples for scandalous failure from inspiring English sources

"The scandalous failure David Cameron condemns is his own," he said.

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said Mr. Mehlman's announcement helped explain "the scandalous failure" of the Republican establishment to fight same-sex marriage.

In his speech, Mr Cameron is expected to highlight what he will describe as the "scandalous" failure of the prison system to rehabilitate.

David Cameron is set to rip up decades of Conservative orthodoxy on crime and punishment, admitting that Britain's prison system has been a "scandalous failure" for years and calling for reform to be the "great progressive cause" of British politics.

Scandalous failure to protect a disabled victim of hate crime is sadly familiar from cases such as that of Fiona Pilkington, who killed herself and her daughter after years of abuse.

Tom Watson, Labour's deputy leader, said: "I welcome the fact that thousands of Sports Direct workers will at last be paid what is due to them, following the scandalous failure of their employer to pay the minimum wage.

We tend to thank the Protestants for introducing divorce to Western Europe, but they did so only because they were intensely serious about the institution of marriage and did not want to see it sullied by scandalous failures.

That was a useful tie: Reifler's grandfather was Ray Earl Friedman, the "Ref" in Refco, long America's first name in the commodity pits until a scandalous accounting failure last year brought it down.

It was a moral failure, scandalous; but they didn't think of it in terms of legal things.

Unless they are scandalously scandalous.

What makes a scandal scandalous?