Sentence examples for single failing from inspiring English sources

If a single failing dogged England through the trophy-less years – not a Six Nations title or even a Triple Crown since 2003 – it was stultifying slowness in recycling the ball.

Paul can assert a policy of radical change, but his Texas lilt makes it sound innocuous, and he often yokes disparate issues — the war in Iraq, the behavior of the Federal Reserve, the right to bear arms — into a single failing, the erosion of a great "moral imperative": individual liberty.

Of the nearly 7,000 applications submitted to Wesleyan, in a record year here and at other highly selective colleges, these 368 were the hardest calls, for reasons as varied as a single failing grade, an extended absence, a borderline test score or a rating of "arrogant" from an alumnus interviewer.

Or is it more like a Survivor-style reality show, where contestants are picked off one by one for a single failing?

Level 2: Patients requiring more detailed observation or intervention including support for a single failing organ system or post-operative care and those 'stepping down' from higher levels of care.

His dalliance with the truth about carbon dioxide hurt him more among the Republican faithful than any other single "failing".

It was "a stepping-stone album", but not a successful one, its two singles failing to chart.

Instead of one single, huge failing, the Internet has three middling, but infuriating, ones.

It was not clear whether he will face a single chargeof failing to help someone in danger.

It may, in fact, be the most serious single institutional failing in US policing to come to light since Ferguson, Missouri, erupted into civil unrest in 2014.

Just as a vast collection of books and periodicals on every subject and from every era is housed in a single leaky and neglected library, so the totality of human archetypes ("the primeval aspects of the Self," in Doug's phrase) is gathered together in the single heroic, failing consciousness of the narrator.