Sentence examples for startling failure from inspiring English sources

A frequent and startling failure to connect those issues may explain why the Confederation of British Industry felt able to lobby aggressively in favour of a new runway at Heathrow in London.

And the startling failure of the United States government to help its most experienced and skilled warriors carry on with their lives.

So Timothy Geithner and Ben Bernanke huddled late into the night last weekend and decided to reward AIG for its startling failure with 30 billion more of our dollars.

Again, other countries do this.The fundamental problemThese details are important, but the noise about them only makes the omission more startling: the failure in America to tackle the underlying lack of competition in the provision of internet access.

Sad because it was startling to see failure laid out in black and white.

Based on our results, we assume this to be likely, but equally startling as the failure to obtain gene sequences is the danger to produce chimerical products.

But stories also abound of the startling stupidities and failures of aid projects whose origins lie in a mentality belonging to a world that appears to have vanished.

For Williams acknowledges his hubris, apologizes for his arrogation of a hero's mantle and accepts to a startling degree his failures as a scientist and a man.

This failure was startling, and deplorable.

Even in an industry notorious for failure, the news was startling.

The startling details of the border guards' failure to spot the defector are no doubt an embarrassment for the government; the news media and politicians are asking what might have happened if the man had come armed for an attack.