It's we who would be stuck if we didn't look beyond such precedents and failed to reckon with the contemporary climate in which these new works have surfaced.
A first estimate had put growth at 3.5%, but failed to reckon for rising consumer spending.
But they have failed to reckon with the moral force of the enduring Victorian Englishwoman.
But public officials have failed to reckon with the political connotations of this design vocabulary.
David Ben-Gurion, Chaim Weizmann, and the other leaders of mainstream Zionism failed to reckon with the Arabs directly in their field of vision.
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.
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.
Yemen's history is marked by foreign interventions that have failed to reckon with the complexity of the country's politics.
She views Ms. Jacobs as a passionate and prescient writer, but also one who failed to reckon with steroidal gentrification and the pervasive hunger of the upper middle class for ever more homogenous neighborhoods.
Sadly, McMaster failed to reckon with the recession, the deficit and a consequent pressure to justify arts spending in terms comparable to those used to defend threatened social and educational services.
