greatest failure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgreatandfailure
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great
adjective
uk/ɡreɪt/us/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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failure
noun
uk/ˈfeɪ.ljər/us/ˈfeɪ.ljɚ/
the fact of someone or something ...
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(Definition ofgreatandfailurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This is thegreatestfailureof all.
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I regard this housing problem as capitalism'sgreatestfailure.
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This housing difficulty is capitalism'sgreatestfailure, its outstanding failure.
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It is that which has been ourgreatestfailure.
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Thegreatestfailureas a clinician, from the palliative medicine perspective, is the failure to respect the patient's sincere and informed efforts to avoid or escape that fate.
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I repeat that ourgreatestfailureis not embodying the right to strike in legislation.
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Thegreatestfailureis that he was after integration but has failed to get it.
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I turn to thegreatestfailurewhich the country has experienced in the last four years.
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If one had to pick an industry that was thegreatestfailureunder private enterprise, it would be shipbuilding.
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Thegreatestfailureof post-war monetary policy was the inflation which went on for twelve years from 1945 to 1957.
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I suppose that thegreatestfailurethat this country has, and the greatest difficulty we face, is that we live in a democracy.
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The 92 out of 100 mark could be thegreatestfailureof all time because the last eight may be the kernel of the problem.
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There was the failure that arose from the equality of power and the subsequent delay involved, but thegreatestfailurewas the failure of spirit.
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Seuss himself called it hisgreatestfailureand a book that nobody bought.
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When the historians come to write about this period they will point to this failure to join on the ground floor as thegreatestfailureof modern times.
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Thegreatestfailureof the draft legislation that we have seen so far is not to put in place a system of pre-scrutiny of arms exports.
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This is the sort of to-and-fro rubbish that goes on between the two great parties and is thegreatestfailureof our political system at present.
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Any policy of equal rights which is to succeed must begin by special discrimination in favour of new arrivals; and this, in my opinion, has been ourgreatestfailure.
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Think as pleasantly as yon can of me, who came nearer to being a big success than people think; and who consequently became thegreatestfailure.
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