Sentences with phrase «of abject failure»

We were given the opportunity to adopt the AV system in a 2011 referendum, yet it was decisively rejected, with 68 % of voters opting for No on a 42 % turnout, in part the result of the abject failure of electoral reform advocates to craft a convincing case in favour of change.

The stealth genre has long been plagued by the enveloping darkness of abject failure, an impending sense of fear that everything you have worked so hard to accomplish is but hair's breadth away from collapsing...

The younger Steinbrenner's venture was nothing short of an abject failure, but his next venture in sports ownership proved infinitely more successful.

Every time I want to cent my frustration I can not surely be expected to give the complete list of his abject failures «everytime», can I now?

Why does Wenger panic buy (somebody please list the number of abject failures — which WERE evident before we bought them, and get players like Mertesacker who really is NOT a first team player.

For many fans, the disenchantment of the Peter Swales era of ownership was still fresh in their minds — a 20 year stretch of abject failure.

United's 4 -3-3 against Benfica in the Europa League is a particularly telling example of an abject failure from ill - implemented playing systems.

The reason that so many of us have been critical in the past lies in the fact that (i) Brown still gets away with his own opinion of himself as chancellor (when he should have resigned because of abject failure) and (ii) the tories had no prompt and coherent strategy to deal with the recent economic disasters as they unfolded.

He's ten thousand leagues from charming and not necessarily easy on the eyes but his sheer determination in the face of abject failure is what earned him the title of «heroic failure».

Their absence suggests there is a fould stench of abject failure which they want to distance themselves from.

The stealth genre has long been plagued by the enveloping darkness of abject failure, an impending sense of fear that everything you have worked so hard to accomplish is but hair's breadth away from collapsing into absolute catastrophe.