Sentence examples for striking failures from inspiring English sources
Other phenomenal prices were paid — and other striking failures observed.
But while his design ideas have frequently been runaway successes, there have also been striking failures.
Floodwaters entered the domestic air terminal, Don Muang, in one of the most striking failures in the effort to defend Bangkok, the capital, from runoff flowing from the north.
In "The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business," reporter Duff McDonald argues the company invented many of the tools of modern management but at the same time can also be associated with a list of "striking failures".
Commissioned by England's NHS chief executive Simon Stevens, the report laid bare the complexity and scale of the undertaking to achieve parity, but it also provided a blueprint for a system-wide, strategic change to tackle striking failures and gaps in care.
Such striking failures of perception suggest that people do not automatically form a complete and detailed visual representation of a scene in memory.
Relations with Syria have been the most striking failure.
"This striking failure establishes the need for far more vigorous Congressional oversight".
The most striking failure affected a previously unpublished object of immense value to the history of Arab metalwork.
The most striking failure was at the F.B.I., an organization with a carefully buffed image that bears little resemblance to its rocky day-to-day performance.
Asli Aydintasbas, a columnist at the Turkish daily Milliyet, argues that the episode was a striking failure in diplomacy, for both the United States and Turkey.
