The phrase "a failure to accept" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone does not acknowledge or agree to something, often in a formal or legal context.
Example: "The committee's decision was met with a failure to accept the new regulations by several members."
Alternatives: "an inability to accept" or "a refusal to acknowledge".
For too long, much of the unrest in our community has been caused by a failure to accept the differing expressions of cultural identity.
[C8.] U.S. to Pay Power Company The federal government promised to pay at least $300 million in damages to Exelon for a failure to accept nuclear waste for burial.
In addition to indifference, the Vancouver Police Department and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which patrols the suburb of Port Coquitlam, where Mr. Pickton killed his victims on his farm, were faulted for poor communication, lack of cooperation and a failure to accept that a sharp rise in disappearances in 1997 could have been the work of a serial killer.
In the case of South Africa, many lives were lost because of a failure to accept the use of available ARVs to prevent and treat HIV/Aids in a timely manner". Since Mbeki's ousting from the leadership of the African National Congress in September South Africa has urgently pursued new policies to get treatment to as many people as possible under a new health minister, Barbara Hogan.
"His conduct was fuelled by a failure to accept that Nazia was entitled to leave him, entitled to divorce him, and entitled to live her own life," she said.
"It's a failure to accept complexity of the system, and the system includes people," Ehrenfeld told me recently over coffee.
Speaking of debate, the Logic DESTROYER's kin still live in a world where failure to accept a gentlemanly duel challenge besmirches one's honor and counts as a forfeit.
Speaking of debate, the Logic DESTROYER's kin still live in a world where failure to accept a gentlemanly duel challenge besmirches one's honour and counts as a forfeit.
There is discussion as to what states of affairs is less desirable; many people think that the acceptance of a false hypothesis is always worse than failure to accept a true one and that science should in the first place try to avoid the former kind of error.
A relevant factor was Mr Kearns's failure to accept the help Glencore offered, involving a doctor and a consultant who was a world expert on drug and alcohol addiction.
Peter Mandelson, a Labor member of Parliament, said on Thursday that while Saddam Hussein's failure to accept a series of United Nations resolutions on arms inspection meant that military action might be necessary, unilateral action by the United States would be "a recipe for disaster".
