Doug Lombardi: It's not like any random group of Valve fans couldn't generate a list
of our public failures, right?
(I've had my share
of public failures, too.)
Without the threat
of public failure, I probably would have flaked a month ago.
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.