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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a failure to strive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a lack of effort or ambition in pursuing goals or objectives.
Example: "The report highlighted a failure to strive for excellence in the company's performance metrics."
Alternatives: "an inability to pursue" or "a lack of effort to achieve".
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Many accidents that have occurred after significant reductions in workforce (e.g. the Bhopal disaster) can be partially attributed to an asynchronous evolution (Leveson 2012) of technical and personnel resources, or a failure to strive for their joint optimisation.
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Arsenal will – almost certainly – once again reach the last 16 of the Champions League, a fine achievement in itself, albeit one that is being glossed by the failure to strive for a little more.
The result is often a failure to realize the Ph.D. diversity that most faculty and universities strive to achieve".
But a failure to protect is neglect.
There is a failure to plan ahead.
They call them a "failure to rescue".
There was a failure to emulsify.
Why does a refusal to strive for maximum success in everything appear to so many people to smack of failure?
Intriguingly, the failure of hESCs to strive in old skeletal muscle might represent a therapeutically desirable outcome.
A failure-to-floss tax?
We give them a reason to strive to be better.
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