failure of leadership
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffailureandleadership
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failure
noun
uk/ˈfeɪ.ljər/us/ˈfeɪ.ljɚ/
the fact of someone or something ...
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leadership
noun[U]
uk/ˈliː.də.ʃɪp/us/ˈliː.dɚ.ʃɪp/
the set of characteristics that make a ...
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(Definition offailureandleadershipfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He has not been willing to confront them and take them on, and that is afailureofleadership.
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First, there has been afailureofleadershipby management.
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I do not believe it can be accounted for otherwise than by there having been a colossalfailureofleadership.
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I suppose it is the most tragicfailureofleadershipin the whole history of trade unionism.
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Far from that being afailureofleadership, it demonstrates the exercise of leadership with great responsibility and integrity.
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There is afailureofleadership, because of a failure to tell the people the truth.
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We must not discourage our technologically best byfailureofleadershipamong our politically worst.
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I do not accept that it is afailureofleadership.
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But in my view that was afailureofleadership.
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The investigation was marred by a combination of professional incompetence, institutional racism and afailureofleadershipby senior officers.
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In part, at any rate, the present situation must be attributed to a lamentablefailureofleadershipwithin the industry itself.
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He described that as afailureofleadership.
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Frankly, it is afailureofleadership, and it compounds other failures, not least in this debate.
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There is anotherfailureofleadership.
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Do not let him waste and frustrate that effort byfailureofleadershipon the one issue in which everything depends upon himself.
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The main cause was afailureofleadership, as the first 10 sultans from 1292 to 1566, with one exception, had done quite well.
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The familiar failures of leadership and examples of extravagant demagoguery are paraded.
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In this case, perhaps there were failures of leadership.
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