Sentence examples for courts failed to from inspiring English sources

Courts failed to distinguish between ringleaders and followers, according to a Birmingham solicitor with more than 20 years' experience.

In the United States, a 14-year moratorium in the United States on all silicone implants was lifted only in 2006, after two decades of litigation in American courts failed to show a conclusive link to cancer in humans.

Had the courts failed to take such action, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, as many as five million votes might have been lost, which was, as it happens, almost exactly Obama's popular-vote margin over Romney.

In any event, nothing prevents Mr. Bush from exercising leadership by urging the state's board of pardons to slow things down and conduct the careful review of the evidence that the courts failed to provide.

In other cases and other ways, executive prurience, in the cause of protecting the audience, regularly achieves the sort of ban that the UK courts failed to impose on Lady Chatterley.

They say Chinese courts failed to give adequate weight to the man's history of mental disturbance or to his claim that he was duped into carrying the heroin by a drug gang.

Pakistani courts fail to deliver any semblance of due process.

The ICC was established as a court of last resort to prosecute the most heinous offenses in cases where national courts fail to act.

As a final court of appeal it has shown time and again that it is a vital backstop when the British courts fail to protect free speech".

But that is already assured by treaty provisions that limit the court's jurisdiction to war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity and let it proceed only when national courts fail to prosecute.

It is authorized to prosecute cases of genocide, crimes against humanity and violation of the internationally accepted rules of war, but only when national courts fail to do so.