Sentence examples for shocking failure from inspiring English sources

A statistical analysis, it says, shows that this element of the economic-reform package, nicknamed "shock therapy", clearly correlates with higher mortality rates.That, says the Lancet, was a shocking failure.

That is a shocking failure for a Conservative-led government.Mr Cameron's coalition is winning important arguments, notably over spending cuts.

He described the Coalition's health reforms, which took effect last April, as "a shocking failure of democracy".

The most shocking failure of individual responsibility is the decline of marriage and rise of nonmarital births.

He decided to chase meals-on-wheels vans rather than ambulances when he spotted a shocking failure.

If anyone wonders about the shocking failure of intelligence that preceded Sept. 11, the Lee case gives fair warning.

It catalogued shocking failures in maternity services.

Many critics have rightly pointed out the shocking failures of the Chinese food safety system — the most famous being the tainted-baby-formula scandal of 2008.

The shocking failures and bungling that ensued in the years the two men were tracked is, tellingly, chalked up to the "extreme pressure" brought on by the fact that at any one time, MI5 is investigating several thousand individuals suspected of links to Islamic extremist activities in Britain.

James Morris, the MP for Halesowen and Rowley Regis and chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on mental health, said: "This is an extremely thorough report that uncovers a string of mistakes and shocking failures by mental health services, the police and the prison service going back 12 years and culminating in Christina's brutal murder last year.

"The real problem is women we are working with right this minute, every day, experience really shocking failures on the part of the police and other state agencies".