failing

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• Sensing trouble, when Johnson assumed the role, many onlookers used the phrase “glass cliff” to indicate the belief that Johnson was taking on leadership of a failing company and thus doomed to fail herself.

• The state of global bodies that, despite their many failings, have been instrumental in building and enforcing international laws is no better.

• In his ruling, Judge Tan Ikram said Uber, which claims to have over 45,000 drivers in the city, was now “fit and proper” to hold a London private-hire vehicle operator’s license “despite their historical failings.”

• The company’s failings reflect a broader struggle within the industry to commercialize a technology with so much promise.

• The National Security Council in this early period also struggled, without someone with a clinical epidemiology or global health security background empowered to run the response or challenge health officials — a huge failing, this official added.

• He beat his illness twice, wrote about his battles with the disease, and continued broadcasting even as his health was failing.

• Annie Lee Cooper, well played by Winfrey, is shown trying but failing to register to vote.

• But failing that, he advised pro-immigration reform Republican candidates such as former Gov. Jeb Bush to just skip the state.

• They recorded 10,549 graves on or near the railway in 144 cemeteries, failing to locate only 52 graves.

• So by failing, I go audition for Any Given Sunday [and] things turn out right.

• HE ordered a lunch which he thought the girl would like, with wine to revive the faculties that he knew must be .