Sentence examples for failed to be alert from inspiring English sources
For too long the government failed to be alert to the alarms raised by the industry and act at home to maintain a steel industry in the UK when other European countries were acting to safeguard their own strategic steel industries".
The dummy spearhead of a handful of ships was then sent steaming towards France – but as it turned out the Germans had completely failed to be alerted by all this British trickery and did not react in any way at all.
Report says Bank of England failed to be inquisitive and alert enough to spot widespread fraud in BCCI.
(More exaggerated losses were observed in another study using single notifications in which 29% of all delivered alerts failed to be viewed at all, and 50% of the remainder were evaluated >4.6 days after the event with many exceeding a month).
Passengers need to be alert.
"But you have to be alert.
"You have to be alert and listen".
"We still need to be alert".
Our method is to be alert.
