For some time I have, now with jaundiced eye, awaited the next offering from the sports department detailing his past failings, current failings or soon-to-be failings.

But it has to confront many past failings first.

Whatever his past failings, he had to find a way to reconcile himself to them.

Instead, she is an emasculating force and represents Samson's past failings.

The congress was characterized by frank admissions of past failings, notably in the economic sphere.

A devastated A.J., who had wanted desperately to apologize for his past failings, sobs uncontrollably on Edward's chest.

"It is closure," he said of the deal, calling the agency's past failings "a wake that is behind the boat."

Karolyn A. Belcher, the school's director since it opened in 1999, said school officials accepted responsibility for past failings but had already made great strides.

If only the European Council were capable of a bit of self-criticism over its past failings.

They have even less time for earnest journalists who want to dissect former marriages, nose into past failings and interview the dog.