Sentence examples for sweeping failure from inspiring English sources

The report also found that the police "systemically misclassified possible sexual assaults, resulting in a sweeping failure to properly investigate many potential cases of rape, attempted rape and other sex crimes".

But in a challenge to the official narrative, seven of Holtzclaw's accusers have filed a lawsuit saying they could prove the opposite: a sweeping failure of Oklahoma City and its police department to act on signs that there was a predator in their ranks.

And the movie, starring Matt Damon (who was cast, I'm guessing, due to his sheer rawness) was a sweeping failure on every level.

In such a context, to suggest the sweeping failure of the American military over these last decades without sapping support for the Pentagon and the military-industrial complex would involve making the most breathtaking stab-in-the-back argument in the historical record.

Not just grand, sweeping failures like losing everything, maybe, but silly little things, too.

After years of delay, the World Bank is taking action to address sweeping failures in its oversight of development projects that force people from their land or harm their livelihoods.

CARACAS, Venezuela — When a sweeping power failure left more than half the country without electricity last week, President Nicolás Maduro wasted no time issuing a verdict.

Your defense of the punitive - and cynically misnamed - No Child Left Behind Act ("How to Rescue Education Reform," editorial, Oct. 10) rests on exactly the same premise used by the Bush administration and other conservatives to justify privatizing public education: sweeping claims about the failure of our schools.

WASHINGTON — With the hours ticking away toward a self-imposed deadline, Congressional leaders conceded Sunday that talks on a sweeping deficit agreement were near failure and braced for recriminations over their inability to reach a deal.

In the races for open seats in Missouri, Delaware and North Carolina, personal stories — about end-runs around the political hierarchy, or the legacies and foibles of governors heading for the exit — have turned elections into sweeping melodramas of ambition or failure.

SOON after he was elected president of South Korea last December, Kim Dae Jung observed that many Asian governments were handicapped in their fight to contain the financial firestorm sweeping the region by their failure to acknowledge that "democracy has to go hand in hand with economic growth".