Sentences with phrase «of public failure»

Without the threat of public failure, I probably would have flaked a month ago.

(I've had my share of public failures, too.)

Doug Lombardi: It's not like any random group of Valve fans couldn't generate a list of our public failures, right?

Not exact matches

The comedian and TV personality Conan O'Brien spoke about his very public failure in 2010 when he was given NBC's Tonight Show hosting gig (that once belonged to Jay Leno) only to be forced out of the role.

Tay's initial failure is a great example of how the most well - intentioned tech innovations can be taken in unexpected directions when subjected to a public audience.

And to me it's likely more a someone than a some company since no one went to jail for the banking failure of 2008 and there continues to be public outcry.

What's strange about Merkel's record of electoral success is how consistently she has confirmed the adage that policy failures are an unavoidable part of politics, while avoiding its corollary: that erosions of public support are inevitable, too.

«We the public should feel safe,» said Wesley Cook, a structural engineer at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology who authored the 2014 bridge failure study.

Werner, a campaign strategist at Public Citizen, is attending the hearing where Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is testifying to draw attention to the social network's failure to stop the misuse of its site during the 2016 presidential election.

According to the suit, Yelp's failure to pay reviewers — who voluntarily choose to evaluate their experiences at everything from restaurants to law firms — «have become suspect in both the public forum, as witnessed by the proliferation and popularity of such websites as yelp-sucks.com, and within the courtrooms.»

It could be being terrified of public speaking, experiencing startup failure, or screaming every time you come across a spider.

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.

When perceived failures of a successor, such as the phone hacking scandal, are very public, they can be very hard for the successor to live down.

Despite Vogel's involvement in the case that took away 18 years of Avery's life, the attorney does not seem to be experiencing the same level of backlash as Kratz (perhaps because the state's failures in 1985 have been well known to the public for more than a decade at this point).

Better Markets, a non-profit organization that advocates for the public interest on Wall Street, says a potential promotion by Williams to lead the Federal Reserve Bank of New York would reward failure - because the San Francisco Fed failed to prevent widespread customer abuses at San Francisco - based banking behemoth Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC), which it's supposed to supervise.

Right from its opening sentence («One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit,») the book's message resonated with a public outraged by a rash of corporate scandals and feeling deceived by the failure of American forces to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

The former Liberal was apparently rejected by the party because of public family disputes, a tendency to litigate and more than one business failure.

I don't think failure of a term sheet has to be made a public debate.

But, like many other nations, it suffers from «a failure of the state» begat by «bureaucracies at local, state, and national levels» that remain either too corrupt or too incompetent to supply citizens with decent public services.

This paper explores the concept of What Works Centres, independent and non-partisan organizations structured to create, collect and curate evidence on public policy challenges and the success — and failure — of government and community - based interventions.

That certainly didn't match with my recollection — the second half of my microeconomics 101 course was all about market failures due to monopoly, incomplete information, public goods, or environmental pollution.

Any failure to develop or maintain effective controls, or any difficulties encountered in their implementation or improvement, could harm our operating results, cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations, result in a restatement of our financial statements for prior periods or adversely affect the results of management evaluations and independent registered public accounting firm audits of our internal control over financial reporting that we will eventually be required to include in our periodic reports that will be filed with the SEC.

Trump has been resentful, even furious, at what he views as the media's failure to reflect the magnitude of his achievements, and he feels demoralized that the public's perception of his presidency so far does not necessarily align with his own sense of accomplishment.

«School districts are currently being forced to cut money from classrooms to pay for the Liberals» failure to take action on improving the energy efficiency of public school buildings.

Our strategy of avoidance of payment failure has protected our clients since the days of Washington Public Power (we avoided it) and Orange County, California (we avoided it).

While many, factors contributed to the global financial crisis, the root cause was a massive failure of public policy and regulation in the U.S. residential real estate market.

Given the history of these failures, it is reasonable for the Orthodox Church leaders to proceed with due caution to spare themselves yet another public embarrassment.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

And Brown is surely right that our public schools are, in the main, a national embarrassment; I would add that their failures in our inner urban areas are a crisis of justice lamentably unaddressed on the port side of American politics.

For one thing, these failures and problems describe the public schools as well, especially if you think some of the ideological commitments that animate a great deal of the educational establishment are dangerous in themselves.

Likewise, if a church tries to hide mistakes or craft seasons of failure into a ready - made public relations campaign, it's a big warning sign.

That Austen recognized the absence and failure of the Church in combating individualism makes her a public theologian to reckon....

This position signifies a failure of theological and moral imagination, and raises the question of why the church reacts automatically in public debates instead of helping to advance the discussion.

«WRITINGS» are a big crime in an increasingly militaristic society whose entire educational direction is being captivated into the vortex of the failure of public education — the junk food of the American mind..

Fundamentalist broadcasters have greatly leverage their cultural and political power in the U.S. due to the failure of the FCC to require their radio and television stations to meet the public interest standard.

This belief, Bloom claims, is a consequence of the failure of colleges and universities to cultivate among their students a sense of shared goals and a common vision of the public good.

At the same time, we have witnessed the failure of most familiar forms of communality — dramatically so in Eastern Europe, but also in our own society, where a deep cynicism informs all public life and institutions.

These are worrying signs of a failure to appreciate not only the rights of believers to freedom of conscience and freedom of religion, but also the legitimate role of religion in the public square.

Our public services will be pushed to the point of failure and our national security will be greatly weakened as EU open borders expand further still.»

There's no possible way (outside his own niche industry) for members of the public to recognise and commemorate his good work, only his failures («Who designed this airport layout?

As a result of such multiple failures (still ongoing), the executive branch easily misled the American public.

One major problem of the American social and political system is the failure of the press, especially television news, to inform the public about the true breadth of the unconstitutional activities of the executive branch.

Taylor's failure or disinclination directly to address the political significance of the public / private distinction is closely connected with what we might call his «post-metaphysical» account of religion.

The Failure of Secular Humanism Secularism seeks to exclude God from public policy as an irrelevance, an interference in humanity's autonomous self - development.

He now makes sensational public statements in an attempt to cover up the fact that his career as a Physicist has basically been a failure, by the measure of other Physicists.

In the public domain he found that his individual decision was endorsed for him by the failure and dishonesty of public officials.

Along with public failure, we find an erosion of our personal sense of life, a restlessness that generates anxiety that drives us to greed, and finally to despair that it won't really work out.

That this first step is an error is indicated by Searle himself in his allusion to the bipolar (private and public) character of conscious awareness, which prompts one to ask whether most scientific approaches to the problem of consciousness are vitiated at the outset by a failure to leave open the possibility of an indissociable bipolarity in key ideas (such as public - private, subjective - objective, and body - mind).

As soon as he had taken office, steps were taken to curb bank failure and hoarding; he worked out a program designed to help farmers, developed a nationwide system of relief, instituted a public works program to give the unemployed some work, attempted to develop a national recovery program for industry, and set up agencies to help home owners save their homes and businesses and their investments.

The sin of the church, according to Annie Dillard, is the absence of expectancy in its life and witness, the failure to take adequate account of what the living God is contemporaneously doing in the world to bring his reign to visibility in, with, and under the affairs of the earth; the practical denial of the trustworthiness of the Father, the efficacy of the Son, and the agency of the Holy Spirit in personal and public life.