It's one of our more serious failings.

Nearly seven years on, most of the serious failings identified then continue.

No one is fired, only transferred, even for the most serious failings.

One of the serious failings on this occasion is that this distinction was not made by the Guardian.

We also confirmed the existence of serious failings in the management and control systems.

There was not only the issue already mentioned; there were also serious failings in the management and control system, which led to the irregularities.

All of these factors represent serious failings in this agreement.

These are serious failings which urgently need to be corrected.

The Commission's communication on the common transport policy action programme 1995-2000 has many serious failings from the environmental point of view.

Spot checks are the way to tackle this and weed out bad practice and serious failings.