Sentence examples for stark failure from inspiring English sources
His one stark failure, Dynapol, had its plug pulled prematurely by its early corporate backer, Dekalb Genetics (now part of Monsanto).
Bushmob also described the "stark failure" of the health and education systems in the early life of a young boy from central Australia, who spoke no English, had poor hygiene and dental health, skin sores, mumps and who had had no immunisations.
The Iraqi army's collapse this week marked a stark failure for the U.S. military that trained it and for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government, which has struggled to address leadership and morale problems that now threaten the force's ability to defend the country.
Were these significant losses caused by colossal bad luck, poor judgment, or were they due to a stark failure to adhere to a standard of fiduciary duty?
While Sony's recent conference may have produced mixed impressions (from those who think it was a great console launch, to others like me who think it showed a stark failure of vision), there's a sense that the game is now Microsoft's to lose.
We have long had abundant evidence that reference to total dietary fat was a stark failure to differentiate baby and bathwater.
Everywhere I have been so far, I've come across the same, double-sided story: stark failures of government offset in part by the extraordinary force of human kindness.
The failure of the Egyptian street to hold Nasser accountable for the stark failures of his dictatorship ushered in a 44-year reign of tyranny, corruption and stagnation at the heart of the Arab world.
John Edwards issued a statement saying, "That bin Laden is still at large is Bush's starkest failure".
The starkest failure highlighted by the Lords was that tens of thousands of people are being wrongly "deprived of their liberty" in care homes and hospitals.
Elsewhere in the Middle East, longstanding alliances with Egypt and Saudi Arabia are now looking dangerously fragile.The starkest failure was peacemaking in Palestine, which Mr Obama made a priority but where American peacemaking had in effect collapsed by 2011.
