Sentence examples for failed to devote from inspiring English sources
It says that once the government learned of a possible plot in Yemen, the intelligence community failed to devote more analytic resources, and it failed to put one agency or official in charge.
The report depicted an agency that failed to devote enough resources to inspections at a time of increasing mining activity and that "did not place adequate emphasis on ensuring the inspections were completed".
The American military has failed to devote adequate resources to gathering intelligence and lacks a coordinated strategy with other government agencies to fight terrorist threats like the suicide bombing of the destroyer Cole in Yemen last October, a Pentagon commission reported today.
Some of Osborne's Eurosceptic colleagues argue that he has been so focused on managing what they deride as "Project Fear" – the campaign to keep Britain in the EU – that he failed to devote enough attention to laying the political groundwork for his budget.
The company will likely have to acknowledge they improperly handled documents when trying to foreclose on homeowners, failed to devote sufficient resources when handling mortgages and failed to develop systems to prevent such problems, SunTrust told investors in its annual report.
He does raise an argument for considering Coppola as auteur filmmaker, but he fails to devote proper attention to his claim.
Among the more bizarre responses to "Avatar," James Cameron's blue-green bliss-out, is the complaint, from several conservatives, that the movie fails to devote itself to a Christian narrative.
CITY MISMANAGEMENT -- The State's most sustained arguments on causation, however, are based on evidence that the Board of Education mismanages New York City schools and the City itself fails to devote a sufficient part of its revenues to them.
On the flip side, Hughes continues to negotiate on behalf of this merger; if it fails to devote its best efforts to doing so, according to the contract, EchoStar would be off the hook for the $600 million and may no longer be obliged to pay $2.7 billion for an 81% stake in Hughes' satellite unit PanAmSat.
What Soros failed to do was devote some of his considerable resources to creating an equal-footed coalition to oppose the warmongers.
