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The phrase "a failure to help" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where assistance was not provided when it was needed.
Example: "The report highlighted a failure to help those in need during the crisis, leading to further complications."
Alternatives: "an inability to assist" or "a lack of support".
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There is no accurate science of confidence, no way of knowing how people will react to a failure to help when markets collapse.
Last year, a lower court dropped a "failure to help" case against the officers for lack of concrete evidence.
For years the case dragged through the courts, until in 2012 France's highest court overturned a ruling that dropped a "failure to help" charge against the officers.
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Matt's death seems more a consequence of systemic failure to help a child with a serious mental illness than a direct result of antidepressant use.
He made a mockery of her end of life care and left me with a searing memory of my failure to help a dying patient.
Others privately complained that convening such a high-profile meeting seemed like an effort to distract from his failure to help forge a solution to avert the automatic budget cuts that went into effect last week.
The malfunction of one of the absolute scalar magnetometers on one of the three Swarm satellites has deprived the scientific community of some of these innovative measurements but prompted a probabilistic analysis of failure to help guide decisions regarding the Swarm's satellite orbit deployment (Jackson, 2015).
He said the decision was a reaction to the "ongoing failure to help resolve the various allegations" that started last year with disclosures about widespread US espionage in Germany and culminated in two new spying cases over the past week.
Binniger said: "The government has asked the representative of the US intelligence agencies in Germany to leave the country as a reaction to the ongoing failure to help resolve the various allegations, starting with the NSA and up to the latest incidents".
I'm slowly learning that I can't carry guilt for the symptoms I failed to recognize in my interactions with Matt; for my failure to help a friend in need leading up to this break.
He had asked Steve Young, a political humorist who sometimes uses the name Dr. Failure, to help him write material for a standup routine.
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