Sentence examples for tale of failure from inspiring English sources

The story of the crash is, overwhelmingly, a tale of failure.

"It is the very sad story of squandered youth that stands at the heart of our region's epic tale of failure," says Fadi Ghandour, the Jordanian founder of Aramex, a global logistics firm, citing unemployment rates of 24% in Egypt, 27% in his own country, 30% in Tunisia and Syria, 39% in Saudi Arabia and 46% in Gaza.A shockingly large proportion of Egypt's unemployed young people are graduates.

Gibson suggests that "the excuses begin to run thin, sieved through such a tale of failure".

How Syracuse came to such a pass is a tangled tale of failures in public policies and changes in private tastes, but most of all, of economics.

Much depends on one's answer to the old questions: how can tragedy give pleasure, and how can tales of failure and defeat be somehow good for us?

Dominant faiths can afford tales of failure and redemption, with sinners becoming saints and saints dropping in and out of the calendar like blue-plate specials; beleaguered ones have to put on a good face in public and never lose it.

Mixed in with unmentionably candid advice and embarrassing tales of failure meant only for the ears of YC's founders and mentors are stories worth spreading beyond the accelerator.

A commitment to learning is a distinguishing feature of strategic philanthropy; tales of failure can be the source of its future success.

Numerous studies have shown that country-specific and cultural factors are determinants in how microfinance will interact with poverty, and there are occasionally devastating tales of failure in which the inability to repay a very small loan has plunged households further into desperate penury.

Unfortunately, efforts to normalize failure can be set back by cautionary tales of failures gone wrong.

And the history of Hadoop itself is a neat technology tale of sharing, failure, persistence and serendipity.