Sentences with phrase «about the failings of»

When we've done that, and only then, we can move on to talk about the failings of the fame dream.

We may be right about the failings of the power structure, but it's worth noting that many of us (myself included) are making a virtue of necessity.

«It's been pleasing to hear Minister Littleproud's strong statements about the failings of this industry but we were disappointed that he has pre-empted the outcome of the review into summer shipments by indicating that these shipments will proceed.»

That they qualified says as much about the failings of others as it does about Korea.

When public office holders are asked questions about failings of their departments, they never say that their system is great (even if they are) and what happened is just an anomaly.

Mandelson is defensive about the failings of judgement that led to his two sackings, and, while bearing a grudging admiration for Gordon Brown, pulls no punches in blaming him for the toxic atmosphere between No 10 and No 11 during the Blair years.

I've spent something like 35 hours in the Morrowind expansion so far and I haven't cared a bit about the failings of Elder Scrolls Online itself.

Britain's Ken Loach makes films infused with quiet but righteous anger about the failings of society.

Ultimately, Calvary seeks neither to affirm nor to deny the value of religion, though it makes no bones about the failings of the Church.

Our lab actively advocates for honest, data - driven conversations about the failings of the current education delivery system, the impact of poverty on student learning, and the necessity for designing and building new systems that guarantee that our twin educational goals of equity and excellence are achieved for each and every child.

Peter Meyer wrote more broadly about the failings of middle schools in «The Middle School Mess,» in the Winter 2011 issue of Ed Next.

Some of the emails arrived with grammatical and spelling errors, and that became an opening to start joking about the failings of the state's public school system.

Also Featuring: Keynote speaker Deborah Meier and Dr. Louis Kruger's insightful documentary about the failings of the MCAS, which will be screened before and after the conference.

Sure, I've talked a lot of smack about the failings of travel blogging, but I also have a lot of hope for what travel bloggers COULD do — that's why I'm so hard on it.

In my 2007 book, Scorcher, which I was in Brisbane to speak about, I went into painful detail about the failings of the democratic process in Australia, but nowhere did I suggest a suspension of democracy.

She spoke to PM about the failings of the Close the Gap Strategy, pushing for an elected Aboriginal representative body to make decisions about the distribution of government money.

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Think about how few people seem bothered by Donald Trump's business failings — in fact, some voters say that just shows he's a risk taker and a dogged pursuer of the American Dream.

On average about 70 percent to 80 percent of businesses fail in 10 years.

Kurdistan, a region of about 6 million people in northern Iraq, had just tried and failed to break away from the rest of the country.

«Everyone talks about the importance of being willing to fail, but more importantly it's being willing to have enough humility to recognize ahead of time that you don't know all the answers, that you do need other people's help.»

The novel begins with General Leia remembering how people failed to take advantage of their newfound freedom and disagreeing about the threat from the First Order, which rose from the fallen Empire.

An independent events company responsible for organising one of Fringe World Festival's major venues has allegedly failed to pay about $ 200,000 owed to performers as it prepares for voluntary administration.

There are hundreds of people who may have had a similar idea as the one you are currently thinking about, but failed to execute.

WSJ writer John Carreyrou reportedly spoke to four former employees, none of whom are named in his story, including one who «accused the company of failing to report test results that raised questions about the precision» of their tests, which could be «a violation of federal rules for laboratories,» the Journal article said.

However, don't let the prospect of penalties dissuade you from learning about SEO and integrating it into your online marketing — chances are, if you haven't paid mind to SEO yet, you've already incurred penalties just by failing to optimize your content.

However, due to a variety of factors, about 18,000 of them will fail within the first year.

About two decades ago, Walmart failed to recognize the potential of the internet.

The discovery of the network leads to some intriguing theories about why people often fail to come up with creative solutions when they're focusing on a problem but succeed later, when they're doing other things, like taking a shower or watching a movie.

While the media glommed on to a few snafus — such as T - Mobile's Sidekick service losing subscribers» data when its cloud supplier's backup systems failed — it's not the number of breaches and failures (which is small) but what it says about providers» practices that is worrisome.

What Bengen discovered was that the 6 percent withdrawal rate he had read about failed around 20 percent of the time, but 4.5 percent survived for every one of those periods — even those starting just before the onset of the Great Depression.

The change comes two weeks after Uber settled a U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaint that the company failed to protect the personal information of drivers and passengers and was deceptive about its efforts to prevent snooping by its employees.

«A lot of people get discouraged about meditation because they like the idea of it, but then feel like they're «failing» at it because they just come face to face with the quality of distraction,» says Arden Pennell, Business Insider's program director.

I'm not talking about a series of miserable days or struggling through the pressure and stress of a failing company.

Here, Voogd and Netzley talk about common errors entrepreneurs make — like failing to focus on marketing or creating too wide of a target audience.

The startup world is remarkably competitive, and about 90 percent of startups will fail.

The Cardinals always called it that, and while some of the articles about Welter failed to mention that detail, her internship (and all of the coaching internships) was only scheduled to run through the third preseason game.

Microsoft's strategy of being all about the music and video was failing, and retailers such as GameStop stopped selling it.

We'd all prefer not to think about our own failings, blind spots, and possible future errors, but facing up to your limitations is one of the best ways to learn.

Though the failure rate for startups is often exaggerated, it's still relatively high: 20 percent of businesses fail within the first year, and about half of U.S. businesses fail within five years, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

About 5 % of businesses fail even when they have a good mentor, but as many as 25 % fail for those that don't.

His council's self - defined benchmark for success is unusually precise and an undeniable stretch: devise measures big enough to lift the median household's income to $ 105,000 in 2030, way up from about $ 80,000 today, and well above the mere $ 90,000 expected if Canada fails to adopt new ways of generating wealth.

In January, the Department of Justice announced that McKesson had settled, for $ 150 million, civil claims that from 2008 to 2013 the company had failed to warn the DEA about the large number of suspicious orders of highly addictive painkillers it had shipped to certain parts of the country.

«We're hugely unexcited about that,» Ray says, recalling the long litany of failed startups over the past two decades that have tried to make a go at offering similar high - speed Internet or cable TV - like services wirelessly.

Musk talked about the future of his rocket company even after its first demonstration failed.

And one of the big questions about Shopify is the churn rate, or how many merchants fail and shut down their stores.

Having been part of two failed startups, Butterfield has no illusions about how often opportunities this big come around.

Both work mostly, but I found they failed to do the job about 10 per cent of the time, which was frequent enough to be annoying.

New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell wrote extensively about Kenna in his 2005 book Blink, arguing Kenna's music - a cross between rap and the British new wave music of the 1980s - failed to gain widespread acclaim in the U.S. because it didn't fit into any familiar category.

But think about the consequences of saying yes all the time — you'll take on more work than you can handle, possibly overextending and burning yourself out, or possibly failing due to your lack of experience in the matter.

And when we think someone has violated a conflict of interest rule it's not necessarily because we think he or she has made an improper decision, but rather that we think he or she has failed to keep personal business and official duties separate, and that as a result we can not be sure about what factors may have influenced that decision.