failings

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Failings by the Met Police contributed to the deaths of serial killer Stephen Port's final three victims, an inquest jury has ruled.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2021

Failings and missed opportunities by the police often remain hidden.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2021

Failings that were noticeable in 1997 are doubly apparent today.

From The Guardian • Aug. 28, 2017

Failings in the first days of the disaster as reactor buildings exploded and the fuel cores melted were also highlighted in yesteday’s hearing.

From BusinessWeek • Feb. 16, 2012

They are both perhaps not exempt from very great Failings; but it seems to me, that the English are not the Slaves of that Tyrant, Custom, and chuse to follow their Genius and good Sense.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von