It is a fundamental failure of political leadership at its most basic.

It's a fundamental failure to perceive and secure Britain's role in a rapidly changing world.

Tesco was found guilty despite its claims there were fundamental failures in the way the investigation was conducted.

Yet the two students, he said, "obviously had fundamental failures in the development of their sense of reality and fantasy."

That would not merely be a breach of established practice but a fundamental failure of justice.

That's the fundamental failure of this world in which everything is reduced to a one-dimensional simplistic judgment.

He called this "a fundamental failure" on the part of the army.

"The fundamental failure was the lack of political will, not the lack of information," he said.

It was just fundamental failure to recognize.

That represented a fundamental failure in the early discussions between the Commission and Parliament.