Sentence examples for sensational failure from inspiring English sources
The law caused some bloodletting, but proved a sensational failure: the $1m ceiling in effect became a floor as companies raised their managers' basic pay to the threshold.
One of ECS's backers is John Mayo, whose past career at Marconi, a maker of telecoms equipment, ended in a sensational failure—"Take Mayo with a large pinch of salt", ran one recent headline.
Recounting the play's sensational failure — the humiliated author stopped writing plays for a few years — Chekhov wrote to a friend, "The theatre breathed malice, the air was compressed with hatred, and in accordance with the laws of physics, I was thrown out of Petersburg like a bomb".
Expecting perfection of regulators undermines their authority when they fall short.Special report Greed and fear Wild-animal spirits In Plato's cave When markets turn How to play chicken and lose The uneven contest Fixing finance Sources & acknowledgmentsReprintsThe most sensational regulatory failure of modern times is the alleged scam by Bernie Madoff.
So this is by no means a story of sensational crowdfunding failure.
Kay Bains Head of UK immigration, Mazars LLP The UK Border Agency is hiding the scale of its failures behind sensational headlines.
Among other things, the level of support I have received from my peers as well as my seniors has restored my faith in our healthcare system, and I would urge everyone to take the sensational headlines about its failures with a pinch of salt.
There is no question that the much bigger problem is a more basic and less sensational problem of government regulation failure.
The failure of several of his sensational projects relating to land banks, state medical services, and prevention of plague forced him to leave England for Scotland, from which he went to the Netherlands.
That show, which followed a murder trial for a full season, may be remembered as a failure; but, in fact, it had a sensational start after being that season's much-heralded newcomer.
NEW YORK — In a sale of striking contrasts, sensational world records were set for some Old Masters, while abrupt failure hit others in Christie's traditional winter auction of Old Master paintings on Wednesday.
