Sentence examples for a failure to mind from inspiring English sources

I wondered if it had suffered from a failure to mind the public interest: cleaning the drains, picking up the garbage, respecting the rule of law.

Though Locke seems to believe that our failings with regards to moral knowledge result from a failure to engage our minds in the right direction, he does however acknowledge that the discovery of moral truths is difficult and laborious.

But the US's chosen course of action undermines its objective, resulting in damage to its reputation, a failure to win hearts and minds – evidenced by research showing 97% of Pakistanis opposed to US action within their territory – and culminating in what Smith calls the "desperate failure of US policy".

When Congress takes up the question of benefits again in November, it should bear this in mind: a failure to deal promptly with long-term unemployment will ensure that unemployment becomes a long-term problem.

A failure to win the hearts and minds of Afghans is a failure to win the security America is seeking at home and abroad.

Commonly identified shortcomings include an allegedly overweening U.S. military response; an underemphasis on the "soft power" approach winning hearts and minds; and a failure to appreciate that a resort to the military-based "hard power" approach to counter-terrorism, while sometimes necessary, makes exercising soft power more difficult.

Shane's description of the pattern of entrepreneurial failure brings to mind the Harvard psychologist David McClelland's famous experiment with kindergarten children in the nineteen-fifties.

Which is why it should not be assumed that heroes like Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel are ideal leaders for post-revolution Eastern Europe.Too many twentieth-century failures spring to mind.

The terminology "goals" and "winning" might bring to mind loss, failure and disappointment, even if they are meant to be inspiring and motivating.

This called to mind his failure to properly identify the Syrian city of Aleppo on the set of "Morning Joe" (something that some of his media persecutors couldn't do either).

Only five of yesterday's 23-man squad had played in a World Cup before – way below Wales and Ireland – which brings to mind the serial failures endured by England's glory team before they reached the nirvana of 2003.