The phrase "a failure to exercise" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing neglect or lack of action, particularly in legal, health, or personal responsibility discussions.
Example: "The court found that there was a failure to exercise due diligence in the investigation of the case."
Alternatives: "a neglect to act" or "an omission to exercise".
But Congress coupled his privilege to be a witness with the right to have a failure to exercise the privilege not tell against him.
In some circumstances and with respect to certain classes of defendants, Congress did create express liability predicated upon a failure to exercise reasonable care.
Yet he does not overlook his human weaknesses above all, an indulgence in feasting and hunting, a complicated and expensive sexual life, a failure to exercise proper supervision over his subordinates, and occasional outbursts of cruelty.
Remember also that as useful as Dodd-Frank will be in curbing future excesses, the recent meltdown wasn't so much a failure of legislation as a failure to exercise prudential regulation, including by the Federal Reserve.
COMMONLY for fiction writers the choice of a fiction-writing protagonist constitutes the worst sort of laziness, a failure to exercise the very imagination they are paid to exploit.
The division, according to people with knowledge of the case, planned to accuse the executive of a "failure to exercise adequate supervision," stemming from a breakdown in the firm's internal controls.
The court did not find an error in law in regard to an alleged failure to exercise discretion to amend the 2050 target, nor did the court find that the Secretary of State misunderstood the Paris Agreement or the advice of the Committee on Climate Change.
As we have explained, defendant's liability in this case is posited not on an alleged failure to supervise Michael when he was off the school premises, but rather on an alleged failure to exercise due care In supervision on school premises.
Because of public familiarity with the "national pastime", no expert testimony would generally be required to make out a showing of failure to exercise due care in such a case (see Meiselman v Crown Hgts. Hosp., 285 N.Y. 389, 396).
The driver of the truck that killed Amar was issued two summonses, the police said: failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to exercise due care.
Lynch pleaded guilty on a charge of failure to exercise due care; he also received the maximum $100 fine and $50 surcharge.
