Sentence examples for failed to touch on from inspiring English sources

But he failed to touch on one point that seems relevant.

The trailers for Click may have foregrounded the mischievous japes that Sandler's character enacts with his magical time-shifting remote control, but they failed to touch on the utterly harrowing series of events that constitute the film's last half-hour.

These, of course, are indeed impressive: but they have only slowed the 5% or more per year collapse in North Sea production that her programme failed to touch on at all.

In 1973, as editor of the magazine The Humanist, Professor Kurtz drafted what came to be known as Humanist Manifesto II, in which he updated a 1933 document by addressing issues that the earlier document, which was largely a critique of theism, had failed to touch on, among them nuclear arms, population control, racism and sexism.

It's hard to believe that those celebrities actually read the policy in question before trying to bully Amnesty into abandoning it, not least because discussion of the policy has failed to touch on any of the human rights abuses that Amnesty sets out.

Katherine Mangu-Ward's trenchant piece on how Congress promotes its agenda through tax policy fails to touch on one action that could result in a significant increase in revenue without any politician's ox being gored: beefing up the I.R.S.'s enforcement budget.

But it fails to touch on criticisms of mayoral control, from parents and teachers.

He fails to touch on the twisted post-bluegrass invented by the likes of banjo player Tony Trischka — a New York sub-subculture that mirrored the higher-profile upheavals in jazz, rock and Latin music — but he hasn't missed much else.

His court vision is his calling card and his shooting is far too poor to make him a possibility along the wing, which fails to touch on the fact that he isn't a physically capable enough defender to body-up wings.

The most extraordinary aspect of the recent judgment, says Yoshiko Sakurai, the author of two books on the subject, is that it failed to touch either on the unusual details of Mr Abe's case, or on the question of his motivation.

Ichiro Suzuki, the Yanks' lately imported Hall-of-Famer, delivered the winning run after being intentionally walked; moments before, Melky Mesa, a Yankee rookie playing in his first major-league game, actually would have been the winning run but somehow failed to touch third base on his way around, and had to retreat.