Sentence examples for failed to allow for from inspiring English sources

Despite subprime borrowers' notoriously shaky finances, the agencies failed to allow for the possibility that housing prices might fall sharply.

"The macroeconomic models available at the time of the crisis typically ignored the banking system and failed to allow for the possibility that bank capital shortages and credit rationing might impact on macroeconomic developments," it said.

Hong Kong Disneyland's most memorable miscue came when it failed to allow for the full length of the mainland's Chinese New Year holiday five months after it opened and made it possible to use discount tickets on the last three days of the holiday.

The criticism was that Facebook failed to allow for a meaningful discourse between different political factions.

It's often been said that communism fell because it tried to build a socio-economic structure that failed to allow for a basic aspect of human nature (in that case, the urge to improve one's lot by one's own efforts).

Earlier it was noted that, were age at screening to be the only consideration, it would be more cost effective to screen women than to screen men, although this calculation failed to allow for the lower disease prevalence typical amongst females.

How can those of us who call ourselves Christians fail to allow for the possibility – just the possibility – that people change?

Whether a 3-point scale or a 16-point scale is more appropriate is a matter for reasonable dispute, but a dichotomous conception, which fails to allow for any degree of success, is difficult to justify.

In the end, officials and outside experts predicted, the European Commission will probably retain the rules but water them down significantly, responding to critics who say they impose overly strict limits on national budgets that fail to allow for the ups and downs of the economic cycle.

All ontologies of universal being fail to allow for the existence of the true individual, or for the genuine encounter between individuals.

(4) In contrast, the method proposed by Corballis is not legitimate for either of these purposes because it fails to allow for uncertainty over the control mean (as a result Type I errors will not be under control).