failing
IPA: fˈeɪɫɪŋ
noun
- weakness; defect
- A surname.
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Examples of "failing" in Sentences
- They said it loud and clear and many times over. they think that America failing is their ticket to power.
- One defense against this failing is the Bill of Rights, but the list of protected liberties is not intended to be complete.
- A U.N. human rights official was blasting the Bush administration for what he calls failing the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
- Chris Christie has frequently said that Newark schools spend nearly $25,000 per student, despite what he calls failing results.
- But the Sudanese leader chided southern politicians for what he called failing to live up to the terms of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, or CPA.
- The insurgent group posted a statement on its English-language Web site Tuesday that linked the longtime diplomat's demise to what it called a failing war.
- What's worse is that the insider source was used to say that she was a certainty for the role and the article went onto hammer her and what they called her failing career.
- But there were no allegations of assault and he was still held to account for what he described as failing to "live up to the standards and principles of trust, respect and integrity" he had set at the company.
- The Bush team plan allows parents after three years, if their children are stuck in what they describe as a failing school, to take some of that federal money, pay for a tutor or possibly private school education.
- So the federal stimulus money that's being offered now to the states is being offered on the condition that they raise charter school caps, that they tie teacher evaluations to students 'test scores, that they close what they call failing schools, that they turn them over to private turnaround operators.
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