Failing in sentence

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What are they failing to learn?

We are failing as a nation to uphold the morals upon which we were founded.

You know, I grew up in the inner city, and there were kids who were failing in schools 56 years ago when I first went to school, and those schools are still lousy today, 56 years later.

So there's really only one area where we're near the top, and that's in failing to give our teachers the help they need to develop their skills.

If the conventional wisdom about nutrition had failed me, was it possible it was failing someone else?

Meta-narratives that make universal claims failed us in the 20th century and are failing us in the 21st.

Our leaders, some of our great institutions are failing us.

It gives us an environment for risk, for trust, where failing is not a fireable offense.

Dying is seen as failing, and we had a heroic narrative for fighting together, but we didn't have a heroic narrative for letting go.

Here is my best physical therapist completely failing to encourage the rat to take a single step, whereas the same rat, five minutes earlier, walked beautifully on the treadmill.

Well, there's a multitude of factors at play, but I think one of the key factors is that the tools that we currently have available to test whether a drug is going to work, whether it has efficacy, or whether it's going to be safe before we get it into human clinical trials, are failing us.

He says, blame is not for failure, it is for failing to help or ask for help.

Now, both of these things made me realize fundamentally that we were failing.

This phenomenon, called post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, isn’t a personal failing; rather, it’s a treatable malfunction of certain biological mechanisms that allow us to cope with dangerous experiences.

After college, I got a job as a diner waitress, kept working, kept writing, kept trying really hard to get published, and failing at it.

For me, going home meant returning to the work of writing because writing was my home, because I loved writing more than I hated failing at writing, which is to say that I loved writing more than I loved my own ego, which is ultimately to say that I loved writing more than I loved myself.

With savings down, pensions becoming a relic of the past and 401(k) plans failing millions of Americans, many near-retirees are dependent on social security as their retirement plan.

But the underside of this ideology has been an increase of anxiety, feelings of guilt, feelings of being inadequate, feeling that we are failing in our choices.

They're failing to engage in classroom debate because they don't want to draw attention to the way that they look.

Every time I listen to Silicon Valley types or students bragging about failing fast and often like it's no big deal, I cringe.

Of course, failing fast is a great way to accelerate learning and avoid wasting time.

I want to propose that just as we put aside the idea of publicly humiliating failed entrepreneurs, we must put aside the idea that failing fast is always the best.

And I thought that was fantastic, because if you get a failing grade, you think, I'm nothing, I'm nowhere.

But the data were simply not telling the truth of what people were seeing and breathing, and it's because they were failing to measure PM2.5, or fine particulate pollution.

I'm not talking about failing a test or losing a basketball game.

All of us know about failing housing markets and the challenges of blight, and I feel like we talk about it with some of our cities more than others, but I think a lot of our U.S. cities and beyond have the challenge of blight, abandoned buildings that people no longer know what to do anything with.

I am failing as a woman, I am failing as a feminist.

I went from a failing child at school who was constantly told I was lazy and not paying attention to suddenly being a child with opportunity and potential.

And after we failed, I just kept failing.

Let's talk together about where religion is failing."

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