Sentence examples for fail to reckon from inspiring English sources

"If we just call it Lee, we fail to reckon with the history".

Failing to reckon with the past can mean misplacing sentimentality.

But they have failed to reckon with the moral force of the enduring Victorian Englishwoman.

A first estimate had put growth at 3.5%, but failed to reckon for rising consumer spending.

But public officials have failed to reckon with the political connotations of this design vocabulary.

It also fails to reckon fully with the tortured and often tragic experience of modern development.

This fails to reckon with a more intriguing sea change to be found in neighborhoods once marked by shootings and mayhem.

But in their euphoria, they failed to reckon sufficiently with the resistance of entrenched bureaucracies — jealous of their authority and fearful of disorder — to change.

David Ben-Gurion, Chaim Weizmann, and the other leaders of mainstream Zionism failed to reckon with the Arabs directly in their field of vision.

The recent crop of movies has largely failed to reckon with the military racism that makes black heroism in the war all the more remarkable.

When a nation fails to reckon with its past, it risks the perpetuation of intolerance on one hand, and resentment on the other.