Sentence examples for failing to a from inspiring English sources

Dr. Morris E. Chafetz, who played an important role in changing the public perception of alcoholism from social crime or personal failing to a disease requiring treatment, died on Oct. 14 at his home in Washington.

Page B13 Obituaries MORRIS CHAFETZ, 87 The first director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, he helped change the public perception of alcoholism from personal failing to a disease requiring treatment.

It was so influential in helping to change the idea of drunkenness from a derisory moral failing to a disease that Walter Winchell hailed it, with more than passing accuracy, as "the 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' " of alcoholism.

It began by showing successive vignettes of generic-looking smartphones failing to (a) demonstrate water resistance; (b) protect against a young child's accidentally sending an embarrassing message; and (c) enable an easy change of battery.

WADA attributes this failing to a lack of support and unsatisfactory working conditions for chaperones, which led to many not turning up to work, or not being committed to enforcing testing, stifling cheating, and insuring fairness.

Discussion: The FDA LOCs significantly underestimate risk from seafood contaminants among sensitive Gulf Coast populations by failing to a) account for the increased vulnerability of the developing fetus and child; b) use appropriate seafood consumption rates; c) include all relevant health end points; and d) incorporate health-protective estimates of exposure duration and acceptable risk.

I became a voracious reader and changed from a failing to an honor roll student.

The fourth line contributes the probability of a school failing to find a match and hiring a new teacher.

A frog failing to catch a dragonfly?

Then I spend several hours failing to make a transition from that to a busy workday.

Never shame a child for failing to control a meltdown.