Sentence examples for string of failing from inspiring English sources

He was the first overall draft choice in 2005, tested and abandoned by a string of failing coaches.

No longer merely impulsive, he turned vigorously profligate — selling off the Welsh estate, investing in a string of failing businesses, buying apartments for friends in Paris.

It was not until the credit crunch and the ensuing crisis that the pendulum began to swing, if only temporarily, in the opposite direction when Brown was forced to belatedly nationalise a string of failing banks.

Gove's failure was not, the Tory logic reasoned, a rising attainment gap between poor students and their better-off peers; soaring numbers of unqualified teachers; radical agendas infiltrating state schooling in Birmingham; a string of failing free schools; or breaking a manifesto pledge by allowing large infant class sizes to rise by a staggering 200%.

Tristram Hunt, the shadow education secretary, said KSA was "another farcical episode in a string of failings" for the government's free school programme.

They appealed against their convictions, accusing the court of a string of errors and the judges of failing to remain impartial due to their personal experiences under the regime.

Hammering again at Gov. George W. Bush's record in Texas, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman today visited one of the desperately poor shantytowns strung along the Rio Grande, accusing the governor of failing to improve conditions there.

String them together and you have not a narrative of failing to deliver on promises, but a litany of isolated, separate chapters – each with its own caveats, exceptions and explanations.