Sentence examples for circumstance fails from inspiring English sources

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All that pomp and circumstance fails to hide the corruption beneath.

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That is, there are reasons not to embezzle, but this kind of agent, due to his circumstances, fails to see, and cannot reasonably be expected to see, that there are such moral reasons.

For instance, seemingly moral disputes over the distribution of wealth may be due to perceptions perhaps mostly inchoate of individual and class interests rather than to principled disagreement about justice; persisting moral disagreement in such circumstances fails the impartiality condition, and is therefore untroubling to the moral realist.

Other automotive electronics experts, such as David Gilbert at Southern Illinois University, have demonstrated that Toyota's fail-safe strategy is not robust and under certain circumstances fails to detect faults that can lead to open throttle.

What we still want to know is why so many companies, in similar circumstances, fail to deliver.

What I do know is that he will not, in any circumstances, fail at the last hurdle".

"No other president Lincoln in the Civil War, FDR in World War II, John F. Kennedy at critical moments of the Cold War faced with such a monumental set of military and political circumstances failed to embrace the opposing political party to help wage a truly national struggle".

But Sir John said: "That will be the last time this court will, unless there are strong mitigating circumstances, fail to refer people to the Solicitors Regulation Authority for a breach of these very high duties to the court".

The fiery Glaswegian rapped his cue on the table and floor when circumstances failed to go his way and he sat ruefully in his chair as he watched his opponent strike a killer blow with each draw of the cue.

True enough, there is a sense in which The Turing Test does look for a "null result": if ordinary judges in the specified circumstances fail to identify the machine (at a given level of success), then there is a given likelihood that the machine is intelligent.

"However, the allegations that Mr. Peterson was a coward and that his performance, under the circumstances, failed to meet the standards of police officers are patently untrue".

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