Sentence examples for small failing from inspiring English sources

The absence of accountability is no small failing.

That lack of state accountability is no small failing.

Similarly, he was credited with reversing the fortunes of Hudson Valley, turning a small failing hospital into a much larger economic success story.

Broadcasters and media companies should be testing what can be enhanced with VR by starting small, failing fast and scaling quickly.

The fines are issued to businesses for a range of violations, some big, some small: failing to refrigerate food in a restaurant at the proper temperature, for example, and failing to properly advertise return policies.

Over the last 40 years, Mr. Chapman has taken a small, failing tool-and-die business founded by his father and built it into a company with an annual revenue of $2 billion.

Bailing out a large number of smaller failing banks may be easier than bailing out a smaller number of large ones, since it is easier to apply bankruptcy and the procedures of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to the smaller institutions.

What's more, the government's crisis managers actually made the TBTF problem worse by consolidating some of the smaller, failing firms, with the largest failing firms.

In the conventionally treated group improvements were much smaller, failing half a standard deviation change by a wide margin.

(Human-centered design calls it participatory action research). Design thinking continues with iterative design starting small and failing small, and making improvement in rapid cycles.

In the first place, people have trouble imagining how small failings can combine to lead to catastrophic disasters.