Sentence examples for the worst failure from inspiring English sources

The worst failure came in 1986.

Faced with questions about these numbers — evidence of what was shaping up as the worst failure of his administration — the Mayor grew peevish.

"The campaign is a failure," wrote one rebel officer to his sister on July 17, "and the worst failure that the South has ever made … and no blow since the fall of New Orleans has been so telling against us".

The worst failure was the delayed evacuation of the typhus-infested "horror camp", where burial parties could not cope with the mortality rate and the dead remained among the living.

There is also a prize for the worst failure, a garish green-and-white child's computer nicknamed the O.L.P.C. — for One Laptop Per Child — a program that MobileActive members regard as the emblem of the failure of technology to achieve change for the better.

Until we move beyond a polarisation between dogged defenders of the flawed status quo, and those who want to give up on the whole thing, we are faced with the worst failure of all – the deep irony that a project that was foremost about cementing European harmony after centuries of conflict has now itself become a cause of resentment and dispute between member states.

The worst failures, notably the security fiasco, took place in the private, not the public, sector.

The conservatives in Britain have backed away from the worst failures of the PFI.

You endorsed the war, and one of your main foreign policy mentors, Dan Senor, was complicit in the worst failures of the occupation.

Comics' egos may be blamed for the worst failures in this area but ultimately it's television executives who inflict these sub-standard shows on us.

It had suffered through terrible reviews, run less than six months and lost some $10.5 million, making it one of the worst failures in Broadway history.