Sentence examples for failed to assign from inspiring English sources

It reads: "So far, the election debates have failed to assign due priority to global warming.

In one landmark case, Justice Blackmun's files disclose, the chief justice had an extraordinary lapse: he not only did not vote, but failed to assign an opinion at all, necessitating a previously unexplained reargument the next term.

Mr. Lehrer said that at one meeting, a district commander who had failed to assign detectives to investigate a rash of car break-ins came under withering questioning by Mr. Santiago and his top aides.

"The market has consistently failed to assign adequate value to Jefferson Smurfit's holding in Smurfit Stone Container," said Martin Rafferty, chairman of the committee of independent directors who assessed Madison Dearborn's bid.

In the 17th century the English political philosopher John Locke also distinguished the legislative from the executive function but, like Aristotle, failed to assign these to separate organs or institutions.

The companies failed to assign adequate staff to examine new and exotic investments, and neglected to take mortgage fraud, lax underwriting and "unsustainable home price appreciation" into account in their models, the inquiry found.

In hiring and promotions, meanwhile, the industry fails to assign any usefulness to employee (expat or local) experience of poverty.

Later, I included "The Pugilist at Rest" in "Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers," at the very back of the volume — and I never fail to assign it to my writing students at Princeton.

However, we notice that RF fails to assign the correct probability to the outputs between 0.9 and 1.0.

However, perhaps you could rationally fail to assign it a probability — your probability that God exists could remain undefined.

In particular, the local retro-causal theories that Maudlin considers fail to assign any definite predictions for the frequency of measurement outcomes in certain experiments.