Sentence examples for singular failure from inspiring English sources

This is the singular failure of "Willing".

It was a singular failure that he was blind to the realities of Nazi rule and Nazi anti-Semitism.

The result underlined the president's singular failure to prod Congressional leaders to continue the 10-year-old weapons ban.

Obama's singular failure to raise the American game no doubt reflects his having one eye on the Senate, whom he still needs to persuade to enact his climate laws.

Those involved in the coup only succeeded in destroying the Republic, a legally constituted democracy, helped on their way by the axis and – even more significantly – by the singular failure of democratic powers to intervene.

Even now there is a singular failure to give the size of the package which takes the importation out of the power of Congress and intrusts it to the control of the state.

Copenhagen was not a singular event: its failure expresses deep-seated problems of global governance.

This week, another favorite grammar gaffe: the failure to match singular with singular, plural with plural.

Improving the resiliency of the global financial system requires protections that enable the system to withstand singular institutional and market failures.

Only recently has the nephrology community moved beyond a fairly singular focus on terminal kidney failure to embrace population-based studies of earlier stages of disease, its markers and risk factors, and of interventions.

Russell explains how the failure of a singular term to denote is compatible with the term's nonetheless having meaning, if we assume that denoting phrases (such as 'the present King of France') and at least certain names ('Apollo') express denoting concepts.