Sentences with phrase «shame at its failures»

I can't take any pride in its modern or historic collective achievements, nor feel shame at its failures.

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But my point here is that unsatisfactory economic ideas and practices which have an impressive history of failure, which caused to founder that great nation California, which lie at the root of much of the shame and dread and division and hostility and cynicism with which our society is presently afflicted, are treated as immutable truths, not to be questioned, not to be interfered with, lest they unleash their terrible retribution, recoiling against whomever would lay a hand on the Ark of Market Economics, if that is the name under which this mighty power is currently invoked.

Allowing your child to wear a diaper at night until she begins to consistently wake up dry will prevent feelings of shame and failure.

The SMCPC also raised the issue in its recent annual report, which named and shamed individual Oxbridge colleges for their failure to increase the number of state school pupils studying at their establishments.

It is a shame they did not observe their failure and begin to wonder whether the same problem that eludes prediction of ENSO might just prevent them from predicting climate at all.