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- noun Plural form of
failing .
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Examples
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With signs the economy is improving and President Barack Obama's poll numbers on the mend, elected Republicans want to make sure the candidates offer a full-throated alternative to Mr. Obama and not rely on what they call his failings to win in November.
Romney to Woo Conservatives Patrick O'Connor 2012
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Another group, Conservatives for Patients 'Rights, which opposes a government-run health system, plans to begin airing 30-minute segments on Sunday featuring unpaid commentary by patients and doctors from Canada and the United Kingdom detailing what they describe as failings in their health-care systems.
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The exagerations about the Candian systems failings is laughable.
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And the Vatican, with its own economic troubles thanks to its own greed and all too human failings, is hardly in a position to do little more than issue encyclicals.
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As we all kow, the thing adults do when confronted with their own failings is to attempt to minimize them by pointing out the failings in others.
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One of Mr Johnson's failings is a belief that the public is there to serve him, not vice versa ...
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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No, evidence of our failings is published in order to move people towards compliance with our expressed values.
Balkinization 2007
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No, evidence of our failings is published in order to move people towards compliance with our expressed values.
Balkinization 2007
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No, evidence of our failings is published in order to move people towards compliance with our expressed values.
Balkinization 2007
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No, evidence of our failings is published in order to move people towards compliance with our expressed values.
Balkinization 2007
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