Sentence examples for a failure to know from inspiring English sources

Immorality is due to a failure to know how to distinguish right from wrong.

This isn't a "measurement" error, it's an indication of a failure to know what we're talking about!

Let me put it this way about this White House, to amend a movie line: the problem here is a failure to know how to negotiate.

Miranda recognized a similar rhetorical talent in Hamilton, and a similar, fatal failure to know when enough was enough.

A baboon's failure to know its rank in the hierarchy can earn a severe beating; consistent failure may keep it from reproducing.

The immigration minister, Damian Green, said London Met had displayed a "serious systemic failure" to know whether its students had the right to be in the UK in the first place.

The first reflects lack of teaching and experience, the second a more subtle, deliberate failure to know what ought to be known.

Although Wolfe clearly regards this as terribly unfair (as do I) and a result of voters' failure to know their own self-interest, he manages to make his argument for more "quality control" in American democracy in ideologically neutral terms.

Or he hated his failure to know more than I did, be cleverer than I was.

The inspectors also found examples of a failure to manage known risks such as falls, urinary tract infections and malnutrition.

For far too long already, a failure to turn what we know into what we do has cost us dearly.