The phrase 'act of failing' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which someone has failed at a task, or to refer to a situation where a specific task was failed. For example, "The students were embarrassed by their teacher's act of failing to answer the difficult question correctly."
In return, BAE, through its QC, David Perry, pleaded guilty today to a single offence under the 1985 Companies Act, of failing "to keep accounting records which were sufficient to show and explain payments" it had made to two companies, Envers Trading and Merlin International, between 1999 and 2005.
In U.S. slang, "skimming" is the act of failing to declare certain income to avoid tax payment.
The recovery process is just as important at the act of failing.
Many citizens misconstrued LWOP as an act of mercy, failing to recognize the enormous pain and public expense that accompanied LWOP sentences, many of which were imposed for nonviolent crimes by consenting adults.
It was the first time that any state had used the federal No Child Left Behind Act to wrest control of failing schools from a district.
The histories of Burundi its neighbour Rwanda show the tragic consequences of failing to act when leaders incite or fail to contain violence.
The shocking aspect of this negligence to act on a known vulnerability in the early 1990s, and the particularly gross negligence of failing to act on a warfighter request in 2005, is the fact that Mine Resistant Ambush Protected MRAPP) vehicles were commercially available.
The consequences of failing to act are simply too grave.
Opposition politicians accused the Conservatives of failing to act decisively.
He had accused the judge of failing to act impartially against dangerous criminals.
They accuse the police of failing to act swiftly enough to stop the violence.
