"We have reason to believe that the F.B.I. agents may have consciously failed to memorialize interviews in the form of F.B.I. 302 reports, in order that their work would not be discoverable".
"In August 2004 a poll conducted by the Zogby opinion research company found nearly two-thirds of New Yorkers under 30 agreeing with the proposition that the administration 'knew in advance that attacks were planned on or around Sept. 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to act,' " Mr. Aaronovitch writes.
The main allegation against Bear Stearns - and thus against Bear's owner JP Morgan - is that the investment bank claimed to be checking that the loans going into the bonds were of reasonable quality through what is known as "due diligence" - but in practice it grotesquely and consciously failed to keep out the rubbishy mortgages.
An assertion that the directors failed to exercise proper oversight requires proof that the directors failed to create an information system or controls or, having an information system, consciously failed to monitor corporate operations.
"In its desire to keep (Krueger) on the playing field, (the 49ers) consciously failed to make full, meaningful disclosure to him respecting the magnitude of the risk he took in continuing to play a violent contact sport with a profoundly damaged left knee," said the opinion by Justice William Newsom.
There is much here about gaps and elision, and the points of confrontation and elusion mapped by vectors, and spillages in the middle distance, and inadvertent (or enforced) circumnavigations, and juxtapositions of the senses that self-consciously fail (on the page) to honor the immediacy and ambience of the sensory.
Perhaps we as health care providers consciously or unconsciously fail to create the expectation that patients should take charge of their health.
It is not something we consciously do or fail to do, but something we are.
There is no need to investigate whether we are making a choice in this country, either consciously or unconsciously, to fail a group of fellow citizens, and in doing that, failing an important ideal of ourselves.
Clearly, the naturalness bias has substantial costs that we fail to consciously recognize.
There are also a number of forms of attentional blindness, where subjects fail to consciously see objects that are presented supraliminally, even though they are paying attention to them.
