Sentence examples for failed to grasp it from inspiring English sources

If Iran failed to grasp it or to come clean about its nuclear activities, the world would know whom to blame for the continuing enmity between the two countries.

When victory was at hand, he failed to grasp it.

Most of the media – then obsessed by calling the city a "Taliban stronghold" – failed to grasp it.

England had the opportunity to nail South Africa from the outset of this deciding Test, and they failed to grasp it, a potentially excellent day for them – and a fine one in any case for spectators – ending up as little more than moderate as South Africa slipped the leash.

Guinea were given a lifeline in this competition with the drawing of lots to qualify from their group, but they've failed to grasp it here.

And if it is a paradox for the daughter of a patrician family to be preaching mass politics, then she fails to grasp it.

He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it".

The green light is a symbol of his optimism — he had come so far he could hardly fail to grasp it.

The inscription: "He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it". What does Bill Gates dream of?

"A Crow Looked at Me" opens with Elverum worrying that the immensity of death makes it a bad subject for art, which can only ever fail to grasp it: Death is real Someone's there and then they're not And it's not for singing about It's not for making into art When real death enters the room All poetry is dumb.

The nerd-in-chief and his wife, Melinda, live in a $100 million giga-mansion with a rather wistful quotation from "The Great Gatsby" inscribed on the ceiling of the library: "He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it".