Sentence examples for a failure to contend from inspiring English sources
Politicians must operate in the world as it is if they wish to win, and a failure to contend with it adequately really matters.
His failure to contend at the WGC Cadillac Championship at Doral followed a missed cut at the Honda Classic the previous week.
If Sheffield loses votes because of the Dodgers' failure to contend seriously, Piazza's prime challenge could come from Jeff Kent of San Francisco.
The court had met to review possible charges that negligence by Mr. Bakonyi — including what his critics contended was a failure to prepare emergency warning and rescue plans — had contributed to the calamity.
The families of two firefighters killed this summer fighting a blaze at the former Deutsche Bank building near ground zero have filed legal papers contending that "dangerous conditions" and a failure to inspect for them turned the site into "a veritable tinderbox".
He ruled that a failure to buy health insurance was not "inactivity," as the plaintiffs contended, but rather an economic decision to try to pay for health services later, out of pocket, rather than now, through the purchase of insurance.
A shareholder lawsuit, filed last Friday in Delaware Chancery Court, contends that the increased compensation and "failure to negotiate" with Electronic Arts represent a failure to maximize shareholder value.
The author contends that this has not been a failure of economics but rather a failure to combine economics with practical application – people's need for incentives.
Bows, braids and balloons are rarely seen in such profusion in a place built to contend with human failure.
They could become a force to contend with".
