Sentence examples for severe failure from inspiring English sources

This is a severe failure of Palestinian leadership.

"There's a severe failure of intelligence about society and about social tensions," Mr. Tanner said.

The civilian deaths, it said, were "directly due to a rare and severe failure" in the artillery control system.

He sounded less than impressed - pointing out that when a bank comes close to going bust (requiring a huge intervention by the British taxpayer), there been a pretty severe failure of control.

It quickly emerged that there had been a severe failure by British intelligence: early that year Col Gadafy had been gripped by a paranoid fear for his survival and ordered his revolutionary committees to eliminate his enemies - "stray dogs".

For this reason, we ask senior members of staff from that time to account for what appears to be the severe failure of the school system to protect its pupils from those who exploited their positions of power.

In the preliminary review, the federal agency found severe failures in several areas.

Everyone acknowledges the severe failures in the way that the Japanese reported Fukushima.

It excoriated Mr. Olmert for "severe failures" in conducting the 34-day war.

In New Jersey, Public Service Electric and Gas reported a 13percentt increase in demand but no severe failures.

You report that an Israeli commission, appointed by the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, excoriated him for "severe failures" in the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.