Sentence examples for complete failure to understand from inspiring English sources

John H. Banks, the Council's chief of staff, said Mr. Hevesi's comments represented "a complete failure to understand the budget process" and only the mayor can initiate a budget modification.

This is a further example of the former environment minister's complete failure to understand the immense risks from unmanaged climate change, as documented by national academies of sciences around the world".

This has all been presided over by Michael Martin, one of the worst speakers since the war, a man distinguished by his complete failure to understand the duties and the history of his office.

"This is not a national security case; it's a sad case of the South Korean authorities' complete failure to understand sarcasm," Sam Zarifi, Asia-Pacific director of the human rights group Amnesty International, said in a statement on Thursday.

The FA might have paid more deference to Capello's injured dignity but the manager rather took the edge off that criticism when he displayed, for the benefit of Italian television, a complete failure to understand the position of his employers.

He also responded to the memo that a Google engineer accidentally made public on Google+ that trashed the service, calling it "a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive leadership".

The near-complete American failure to understand Iraq is still evident five and a half years into the war.

There is a difference between a failure to understand and an understanding of failure.

Expensive maintenance and sometimes complete destruction of bridges, school buildings, military installations, pipelines, and other structures have resulted from failure to understand the principles of frost heaving of piling.

The failure to understand this could be very destructive.

This story wasn't just a failure to understand technology.