Sentence examples for act to fail from inspiring English sources

However, any question of this interpretation is impossible given Lord Diplock's ruling in the Sheppard case in 1981, which said categorically that: "To 'neglect' a child is to omit to act, to fail to provide adequately for its needs; and, in the context of section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, its physical needs rather than its spiritual, educational, moral or emotional needs".

"To fail to act is to fail those who need our help," he told the Assembly in New York, saying the UN needed a "new way of working".

The Care Act is set to fail.

Remember: very few people act with the intention to fail.

The ignorance that Holbach describes here, however, is what causes people to fail to act rightly.

To fail to act is a betrayal of public trust and scientific integrity.

Thus, an intervention does not work in itself; it is the mechanisms that underlie it which act (or fail to act) to produce the observed outcomes.

He "intentionally or recklessly" failed to act competently, failed to adequately supervise the work of subordinate attorneys, and forwarded "shoddy legal memoranda regarding the definition of torture" to Rumsfeld.

Stated directly, the official must act or fail to act contrary to the requirements of his job under state law.

Yet these standards fall far short of Clean Air Act requirements and fail to limit emissions enough.

Sometimes the pressures can make us act differently and fail to do our best.