Sentence examples for this tragic failure from inspiring English sources

There were at least three underlying reasons for this tragic failure.

Despite this tragic failure, de Rozier's invention eventually succeeded in the ultimate transglobal balloon voyage two centuries later.

THIS is the tale of the tragic failure of a brave and honest man appointed to expose corruption by a new Kenyan president who came to power on a wave of high-minded enthusiasm in late 2002, claiming to be a clean-handed reformer.

She reflects upon Siegfried and upon the tragic failure of Wotan's plan that this great hero would become the earth's salvation.

This was the worst single attack against civilians by armed militants in Egypt and a bloody reminder of the tragic failure of successive governments to quell a tenacious insurgency — despite brutal, oppressive attempts to do so.

The success of Apollo 7 helped NASA recover from the tragic failure of Apollo 1, in which three astronauts were killed in a cabin fire during a routine test on the launch pad.

In June, he was stripped of the honorary knighthood that Queen Elizabeth II had bestowed on him in 1994; that same day, Nelson Mandela, at his ninetieth birthday party, lamented "the tragic failure of leadership in our neighboring Zimbabwe".

To emphasise Sykes-Picot in the Middle East's current predicament, is to miss the region's real problem: the tragic failure of successive postcolonial governments to build inclusive states that would reinforce a national identity.

What is driving Bass, I suspect, is the feeling so many of us had during the 1990s: outrage over the tragic failure of the United States and its European allies to stop the genocide in Rwanda, and their long, inexcusable delay about doing so in Bosnia.

As the report points out, the fact that the top three risks are exactly the same as in 2012 reflects the tragic failure of policymakers across the globe to make progress on the major economic, environmental and social challenges of our time.

Nearer to home we have seen the outbreak of violence against fellow Africans in our own country and the tragic failure of leadership in our neighbouring Zimbabwe".