Sentence examples for terrible failure from inspiring English sources

It may be a terrible failure.

We need to acknowledge that terrible failure today".

Early attempts were a "terrible failure," Wu said.

Everyone is a wunderkind now or else a terrible failure.

It represents a terrible failure in moral leadership".

"I was a terrible failure as a teacher".

Rio was quite possibly the last chance that we will have as a world to correct these terrible failures.

And when there are terrible failures in economic management — a bankrupt county, a state ill-prepared for its pension obligations — these do not necessarily bring the national economy to its knees.

But while these were terrible failures, and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's promise to reform the agency is overdue, it is hard to believe that other agencies in Washington, and even the Congressional oversight committees, were not also culpable.

There have been some truly terrible failures that have stained American military honor, to be sure: Abu Ghraib, Haditha, Mahmudiya, among a lengthening list of instances where rogue American troops behaved no better than Saddam's thugs.

Even as the terrible failures of Hillsborough were being laid bare at the inquests, the South Yorkshire police culture of the 1980s, and its other infamous scandal, Orgreave, were being further exposed.