Sentence examples for shocking failures from inspiring English sources

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.

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 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.

"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".

"In many of these cases there has been evidence of shocking failures on the part of the police and other state agencies.

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.

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

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

Yet the business news we see daily is littered with stories of rampant success and shocking failure.

From our point of view it was a shocking failure: a bad day for the Government, a bad day for Britain and a bad day for Europe".