Sentence examples for small failings from inspiring English sources

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

Twelve-year-old Fern is a gloriously recognisable stroppy tween, fastidious about dirt, angry with her family's many small failings - until almost unbearable tragedy uproots the lot.

And he makes us understand clearly how it all came to be: the tiny steps forward of racism and oppression, the small failings of good people helplessly accommodating themselves to necessity at a time when the Final Solution was still far beyond their imagination.

Today 110 Livingston Street, the headquarters of the New York City school system in downtown Brooklyn, stands as a stone-faced testament to moribund bureaucracy and the myriad large and small failings of the public schools, so reviled that one former chancellor proposed changing the address to 112 Livingston Street.

If you believe that your child's performance or behavior is a direct reflection on who you are, you may be so embarrassed that you transfer your child's small failings into thinking that you must be a failure, wrongly making it all too personal.

That lack of state accountability is no small failing.

The absence of 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.