Sentence examples for a failure of foresight from inspiring English sources

The F.D.I.C.'s deficit amounted to a failure of foresight, or courage, by Congress, but the system succeeded in the larger sense of heading off panics.

The show's makers have been credited with luck or prescience for that — and the Republican Party with bad luck and a failure of foresight — but it's less any of those things than a fulfillment of Oscar Underwood's dictum: the issue of the Klan, or at least of the bigotry it represents, has not, after all these decades, been settled.

Despite God's best intentions, it was a failure of foresight on his part (a failure of gardening, as it were) to think that Adam and Eve could become caretakers of Eden's privileged environment when he, God, went to such lengths to make sure that his creatures had not a care in the world.

The need to revise the label or even withdraw a drug should not be viewed as a failure of foresight but, rather, as the mark of a vigilant and responsive regulatory process.

We all know what was to come, and so every optimistic statement, every jocular dismissal of the financial threat, looks like a damning failure of foresight.

So that's a pretty major failure of foresight by the world's most famous AI-building entity.

"This is not a failure of execution, but a lack of foresight on Governor Romney's part to understand the implications of his policy proposals," he said in a statement.

Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project and lead attorney in a lawsuit seeking reunification of separated families, said the report showed the Trump administration's "ineptitude and historic failure of foresight".

For what took place one year ago was not merely a failure of regulation or legislation; it was not merely a failure of oversight or foresight.

The show's makers have been credited with luck or prescience for that and the Republican Party with bad luck and a failure of foresight but it's less any of those things than a fulfillment of Oscar Underwood's dictum: the issue of the Klan, or at least of the bigotry it represents, has not, after all these decades, been settled.

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