Sentence examples for failed to grapple from inspiring English sources

Here, falling back on his radio days, he failed to grapple with what television was about.

He said the previous administration had failed to grapple with the nation's energy sources through a comprehensive plan.

Authoritarian and inept governments, often propped up by outside powers, have failed to grapple with the many challenges.

But there is one question the party has failed to grapple with: What if Gov. David A. Paterson refuses to go?

It also shows that the Obama administration failed to grapple with either the well-known weaknesses of blowout preventers or the sufficiency of the nation's drilling regulations even as it made plans this spring to expand offshore oil exploration.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who will end his second term in 2014, has lamentably failed to grapple with all the old problems of awful infrastructure, foot-dragging bureaucrats, rampant corruption and ill-organised political decentralisation.

(The authors also fail to grapple with the anti-progressive impulses of Christian and Jewish fundamentalism).

But if Mr Obama fails to grapple with these three things the budget, China and the Middle East he will surely be seen harshly.

It fails to grapple with how design has come to pervade our world in all sorts of ways both visible and invisible, tangible and abstract.

One, clearly, is the prevailing discontent with current political discourse and a sense that the media often fail to grapple with existing realities.

What it fails to grapple with is the darker reality that civilizations, like all else, have a beginning and an end.