Sentence examples for acknowledged failing from inspiring English sources

But they acknowledged failing to seek approval to remove the children from Haiti, and several of the children have at least one living parent.

The archbishop has already acknowledged failing to accomplish a lasting reconciliation, but the vote on Tuesday robbed him of a final opportunity to salvage something of a legacy.

The archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, who will retire next month, has spent much of his 10 years as the senior bishop of the Church of England and symbolic head of the Anglican Communion devising complex compromises intended to prevent a schism, but has acknowledged failing to accomplish a lasting reconciliation.

Election officials also acknowledged failing to make the propert adjustments after voters stood in terribly and often prohibitively long lines during eight days of early voting, which had been reduced by the legislature from 14 days.

But those programs have underperformed, Obama and Duncan have acknowledged, failing to enroll a sizeable number of borrowers and casting doubt on the Education Department's commitment to helping current borrowers manage their debt.

Farage has put immigration at the centre of his campaign after David Cameron had to acknowledge failing in his pledge to bring net migration down to tens of thousands.

The I.M.F., which acknowledges failing to stabilize Russia's economy and currency in the 1990's, has repeatedly denied that aid money -- at one point it had about $25 billion in outstanding loans to Russia -- was siphoned off.

The Associated Press news agency says it has obtained an internal draft document in which WHO officials acknowledge failing to appreciate the seriousness of the situation as the number of cases grew.

The army, too, had acknowledged failings at Deepcut, he said.

An inquest this week heard that the trust responsible, Greater Manchester West, had acknowledged failings in communication on their part.

For a leadership that has never acknowledged failings in its policies or tolerated any challenges to them, the recent economic measures, combined with an equally striking shift in diplomatic tack, suggest a new willingness to break with past practice.