Children with selective mutism (SM) fail to speak in specific public situations (e.g., school), despite speaking normally in other situations (e.g., at home).
We will be doing a disservice if we fail to speak up today".
A failure of leadership and moral authority occurs wherever this behavior takes place, especially when our most revered institutions of learning fail to speak out against bigotry.
It follows a Spectator interview in which she questioned the way staff in Whitehall fail to speak their minds and expressed exasperation at their fondness for acronyms.
But if the case against him and others is so obvious, why did Johnson and Kwak, who run an economics blog called The Baseline Scenario, fail to speak up before the crisis erupted?
Analysts say that if the Europeans fail to speak with one voice in voting for the Palestinian request and recognizing Israeli concerns at the same time, their credibility across the Middle East will be tainted.
We don't serve our country -- in fact we weaken it intellectually -- if we downplay our principles or fail to speak forcefully out of some misguided sense of good manners.
Bray left a long time ago; why did these subordinates of his fail to speak out afterwards?
In one instance, the head teacher proudly reported about a visit she had had to one of the schools under her supervision where many students had failed the speaking test.
We only further perpetuate the oppression if we fail to speak on issues that matter.
"They're cowards," Hannah added, referring to politicians who fail to speak about the subject.
