Sentences with phrase «general failure of»

Louis notes the general failure of government stimulus, citing Solyndra and the post office.

Toni Massari, Pray, why are you asking for commentary on a 5 - year old article by a non-climate scientist — particularly one which looks so freaking silly now in the aftermath of several back - to - back record warm years, a very warm 2017 (despite no El Nino) and the general failure of the author to understand the difference between weather and climate.

These failures will join the European Emissions Trading System and the emissions reductions targets, and the more general failure of the EU to influence global policy, leaving it in an island of expensive energy and redundant technology.

Just how many billions the Obama administration's Green energy program will have lost by the time they are eventually calculated will be testimony to the general failure of solar and wind power.

On the general failure of the «creative disruption» notion that if you have enough money, the rules won't matter — a caution that guy who dumped all that iron sulfate into the Pacific didn't get.

But the officers who did raise their voices against the miscalculations, shortsightedness, and general failure of the war effort were generally crushed, their careers often ended.

The general failure of economists to anticipate the 2008 financial crisis might explain their current cold reception in the corridors of power.

The answer partially lies in the more general failure of polling in the months leading to May 2015.

The Gunners have had other problems, no doubt, but the general failure of Arsenal players from Abou Diaby to Alex Song, Denilson to Arteta and many more to really replace the Frenchman has been a big reason for our struggles and a major talking point among us Arsenal fans.

Natural selection, an essential part of the process by which organisms evolve into richer and more complex forms, inevitably involves a great deal of suffering, death, and general failure of organisms to flourish.

Has not the failure of decolonization, in some areas at least, been as spectacular and tragic as the general failure of collectivism?

He faced a general failure of his own people to believe his proclamation and repent.

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In general, founders don't seem to worry about failure at the hands of their competition — only 5 percent cited this as a concern.

As Steve Blank recently pointed out in an article in Harvard Business Review, it was the failure to deal with this issue that led to many of General Electric's current problems.

All deals, all companies, all projects go through ebbs and flows in terms of success and failure, but the general thesis of a smart home is one I believe in strongly.

He adds that CETA falling through would be «bad for general business,» as he feels the failure would be representative of a global trend towards protectionism.

Other studies suggest a fear of bad grades and «fear of failure» in general may be key.

Weingard believes that all innovators have ideas about how to improve their products, businesses, and the world in general, but the truth is «it's lots of hard work, and many failures, before the idea can be executed as imagined.»

The Pantry deal was reached about four years after the failure of Couche - Tard's US$ 1.9 - billion hostile bid for Casey's General Stores.

Many of the problems in the economy and job markets we see today are a direct result of large corporate failures to invest in the future and create long - term value for all stakeholders, including employees and the public in general.

She revealed as much in a deposition she gave on February 16, 2007 as part of the SEC Inspector General's investigation into the regulator's failures in the Pequot insider - trading probe.

Failure to do so is taken extraordinarily seriously: one senior executive was subjected to a series of interrogations by then general counsel James Comey over whether she had lied about typing an e-mail versus merely dictating it.

My general sense is that stock valuations are reasonable, though not deeply undervalued, and risk premiums are abating given that the economy appears to have pulled back from the brink of large - scale bank failures.

And of course, people are saying what caused the failure of performance at General Electric.

Sam Hinkie was an undisputed failure as General Manager of the Philadelphia 76ers.

In general, inventors get stuck for one of four reasons: 1) fear of failure, 2) fear of success, 3) being in a state of diversion, or 4) lack of a roadmap.

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VICTORIA — New Democrat Leader John Horgan is calling for the resignation of Minister of Energy and Mines Bill Bennett after B.C.'s Auditor General blamed failures in his ministry for the tailings pond breach at Mount Polley.

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In the event of failure of PNC Bank, National Association, deposits with the PNC Bank Canada Branch would be treated as unsecured general liabilities, and you would be considered a general creditor of PNC Bank, National Association.

Earlier this year the Auditor General slammed the Christy Clark government for its weak oversight of the mining industry, and failure to properly monitor Mount Polley before the disaster.

A general failure to understand science also leaves kids less able to pursue other related fields that rely on appreciation of the scientific method as well as critical thinking.

Evangelicalism in general hides it sore spots very well with nice rhetoric — but they can't explain the dismal failure of the faith with regards to controlling «ego».

I believe that Muller's mistake is rooted in a too facile assimilation of Hume and Burke (Burke attacked metaphysical politics and not metaphysics per se, and assuredly believed that custom as «second nature» was deeply rooted in an unchangeable human and social nature) and in a general failure to confront fully the important conservative critique of relativism and historicism.

I'll leave it to others to debate his definitions of liberalism and other political philosophies, and there's a whole other debate to be had about whether his leadership of the Liberal Democrat party was doomed by his Christian faith, as he claims, or his failure to return a higher number of MPs at this year's General Election.

There are many reasons for this, including the historical failure of any of the various theories to compel enduring universal consent, a general sense that we blaspheme against the sheer mystery of God by witnessing to the glory of God's actions with a cocksure orthodoxy, and a philosophic climate characterized by a profound skepticism about all metaphysical or theological attempts to probe rationally the truth of things.

Bernstein gives a number of examples of the source of this failure, as explanations of his general belief «that the authors have admitted into the book concepts and principles based on considerations not sufficiently convincing — concepts and principles based on views opposed to those forced on mathematicians by the work of Peano, Pieri, Hilbert, Veblen, Huntington» (BAMS32: 712).

Thus whereas in the first case there is a general failing to give nature, as the realm of finitude, contingency, chance and decay, its due place as a condition of mind as well as a constitutive element in the general scheme of things, in the second case there is an equally important failure to account for the origins of the unity of rational mind in nature.

Attorneys - general in those states would unquestionably fight any such suit, and the likelihood of failure in those state courts would cast a shadow over litigation in the others.

The group called on the general assembly to confess «our continued sins of racism and failure to love brothers and sisters from minority cultures» and to recommit itself «to bear fruit in keeping with our repentance.»

The rest results from the failure to develop a general theory of immanence whereby one actuality could be recognized as being present objectively within the experience of another without thereby destroying its integrity as a distinct individual actuality.6 In contrast to Aristotle's dictum that one substance (i.e., actuality) can not be in another, Whitehead's philosophy is designed to show how this may be so.

But his failure to justify this distinction, by showing how to map a domain of rationality in which the elucidation of metaphysical concepts followed the secure path of a science («in accordance with the example set by geometers and physicists») indicates a general limitation on natural philosophy.

Failure to recognize the appearance of other forms makes the task of understanding mysticism in general, and Schweitzer's thought in particular, doubly difficult.

With the NATO bombing of Serbia in its fourth week and facing the prospect of failure, General William Odom, former director of the U.S. National Security Agency, published an essay in the Wall Street Journal urging the ground invasion of Serbia via Hungary: a high «speed armored ground assault charging down through open country in Hungary to attack Serbia from the north while on its southern flank the country is fighting assorted anti «Serbian forces and pockets of the Kosovo Liberation Army.

It will be recalled that in describing the nature of worship, in its most general sense, we found that there were five elements which form the action of the believer in his cultic approach to deity: Adoration, or praise; thanksgiving; acknowledgement of failure or sin; prayer for others; prayer for oneself.

There is yet a third place where Kurt Gödel's mathematical work has theological purchase: in Einstein's failure to reconcile the deterministic world of general relativity with the probabilistic world of quantum mechanics.

One of the insidiously damaging aspects of the present debate about the divorced and remarried is the failure to say anything about the proper dispositions required for a non-sacrilegious communion, and the general acquiescence in everyone coming up to receive the Eucharist regardless of their state of life, state of soul, or faith in the real presence.

There is nothing essentially sinful in Hindu society any more than there is anything essentially pure in the Christian society - for that is what the church amounts to - so that one should hasten from the one to the other... So long as the believer's testimony for Christ is open and as long as his attitude towards Hindu society in general is critical, and towards social and religious practices inconsistent with the spirit of Christ is protestant and practically protestant, I would allow him to struggle his way to the light with failure here and failure there, but with progress and success on the whole.

What we need to ask, however, is whether the weaknesses of the electoral process are in fact signs of a more general political failure that has left us unable to support better elections.