Sentence examples for accepted failing from inspiring English sources

Mr. Samuelson accepted, failing to mention he had already eaten.

Seduced by the French offer, Godoy accepted, failing to detect the true motivations of either Napoleon or Ferdinand, who both intended to use the invasion as a ploy, to seize power in Spain.

Memorable Phrase: "We cannot accept failing schools -- and we cannot accept excuses for inaction or delay".

"We cannot accept failing schools," he added during an unusually forceful one-hour speech at the Morris Educational Campus in the Bronx.

We do this in collaboration with like-minded partners and community members who know what's at stake if we continue to accept failing schools, high incarceration rates, increased violence and shuttered black-owned businesses.

We aimed to ascertain the level of awareness and knowledge of private patients with tuberculosis attending our clinic at a tertiary private healthcare institute with regards to the DOTS programme, understanding the reasons behind their preference for private healthcare, and evaluating their perceptions and reasons for accepting or failing to accept directly observed therapy as a treatment option.

He has been on the right side of history for the last 30 years, and dares to make the case against the widely accepted – yet failing – neoliberal economics we live under.

He accepted that failing to close the tunnel leading into the central pens was a "blunder of the first magnitude" and that it was "the direct cause of the deaths of 96 persons".

It is about accepting death, accepting that you are not needed, and accepting your failing body" (Madeline Conant).

Why do we accept the failing schools and overpriced apartments, the bedbugs and the traffic?

There, the government had charged Mr. Black, the former chairman of Hollinger International, with both traditional and honest-services fraud for accepting and failing to disclose noncompetition fees.