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But this nonetheless represents a stunning failure of policy.

Equally, though, the waste problem points to a stunning failure of governance.

Yes, there are some caveats and complications, but this nonetheless represents a stunning failure of policy.

But anxiety once again gripped investors on Monday after a stunning failure of the House to pass the compromise bailout agreement drafted over the weekend.

In August the problems faced by the country's youth were underscored by the stunning failure of all 25,000 candidates who sat for the University of Liberia's entrance examination.

The attacks represented "a stunning failure of intelligence," Mr. Brokaw said, though most of the experts only speculated about whom to retaliate against, as "war" became one of the day's most common terms.

But the church faithful still await an accounting of the long years of cover-up and the "stunning failures of the overwhemingly majority of U.S. bishops," in the words of The National Catholic Reporter.

HSBC was last year fined $1.9bn£1.2bnby) by the US department of justice for "stunning failures of oversight", which allowed drugs cartels and terrorists to launder hundreds of millions of pounds through its US and Mexican businesses.

"HSBC is being held accountable for stunning failures of oversight — and worse — that led the bank to permit narcotics traffickers and others to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through HSBC subsidiaries, and to facilitate hundreds of millions more in transactions with sanctioned countries," Lanny A. Breuer, the head of the Justice Department's criminal division, said in a statement.

Breuer said at the time: "HSBC is being held accountable for stunning failures of oversight – and worse – that led the bank to permit narcotics traffickers and others to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through HSBC subsidiaries and to facilitate hundreds of millions more in transactions with sanctioned countries".

"HSBC is being held accountable for stunning failures of oversight – and worse," said Breuer, "that led the bank to permit narcotics traffickers and others to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through HSBC subsidiaries and to facilitate hundreds of millions more in transactions with sanctioned countries".