I should have thought the continual failures you have met with in all your own love affairs might have taught you better by this time.

Joel Silbey, professor of history at Cornell, said the combination of news and talk had created "a culture of criticism" that portrayed government as a continual failure.

"It demonstrates the continual failure of our trade policies," said Gary Hubbard, a union spokesman in Washington.

I say "aging" rather than "maturing," for one of Andre Parent's chief characteristics is his continual failure to grow up.

He continually provides her with uplifting emotional support and encouragement despite her misadventures and nigh-on continual failure to live up to her own expectations.

Suffering, continual seeking and continual failure were written in his look.

For Mr. Stoppard, human value has sometimes seemed to consist in the persistence with which we try to make sense of ourselves, and human pathos in our continual failure to do so.

Former Senator Bill Bradley used a vivid metaphor to describe Washington's continual failure to free American elections from the influence of special-interest money.

In attempting to hold the empire together Heath wanted to learn how to activate the Sun-Disc, Orion's most formidable weapon, but was met with continual failure.

We were in touch with the rest of the world, with men's continual failures, recoveries, groping advances.