The phrase "a failure to pick" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone did not make a choice or selection when it was expected or required.
Example: "The team's performance suffered due to a failure to pick the right strategy for the game."
Alternatives: "an inability to choose" or "a neglect to select".
His windmill style of slashing at his guitar strings signaled a failure to pick them fluidly, even if it made him shed blood and fingernails in the process (and it did).
It showed that the American government's fatal mistake was not a failure to pick up signals — overheard conversations, decoded cables, unusual ship movements — but a failure to separate out signals from noise, to understand which signals were meaningful, and to imagine that the Japanese might do something as irrational as attacking the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific fleet.
It showed that the American government's fatal mistake was not a failure to pick up signals overheard conversations, decoded cables, unusual ship movements but a failure to separate out signals from noise, to understand which signals were meaningful, and to imagine that the Japanese might do something as irrational as attacking the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific fleet.
The coach himself has not been without his shortcomings this autumn; a failure to pick a half-back pairing and stick with it undoubtedly hindered England's fluidity, although the 66-year-old does get some leeway when you factor in that perhaps nobody knows just who England's best two halves are.
Kirik, who nonetheless earned his medical degree, fought hard to make his way into translational research, eventually turning what first felt like a failure to pick the right career track into an advantage.
The defeat at St Mirren Park plunged the Leith men deeper into the battle to avoid a relegation play-off spot and a failure to pick up all three points in next Sunday's Edinburgh derby at Easter Road would increase the pressure.
The coroner said that despite 19 checks carried out on the Hawk T1 between the final flight on 4 November and the incident, there was a repeated failure to pick up that the safety pin had been incorrectly housed and that the seat firing handle was in an unsafe position.
"And as a result of your failure to pick it up," Jones said with disdain, "a hundred and sixty-eight people died?" Tears in her eyes, Fortier said only, "Yes".
Or, I said a woman, just because I think Obama's failure to pick Hillary Clinton provided an opening.
Bobby's failure to pick up an instrument and join the band becomes a natural-born metaphor for his refusal to engage with others.
Speaking at a Bafta dinner in Los Angeles on Saturday, Affleck denied he was disappointed at his failure to pick up an Oscar nomination for best director.
