Sentence examples for failing to apprehend from inspiring English sources

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"Where a suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so," Justice Byron R. White wrote for the court.

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Your companion frequently fails to apprehend basic instructions.

Despite Holmes's clue, Lestrade fails to apprehend Mr. Turner.

They also castigated the Arroyo government for not doing enough to stop the atrocities and for failing to prosecute or apprehend the suspects in most of these cases.

During the tense Ruby Ridge standoff in northern Idaho, three people died, including a deputy U.S. marshal, as authorities attempted to apprehend a white separatist for failing to appear in court for selling illegal sawed-off shotguns.

They cuffed her and put her in the back of a police cruiser apparently failing to realize the woman they'd just apprehended was some sort of secret Houdini of Crime.

Some Tunisians fault Mr. Laarayedh, the interior minister, for failing to protect the assassinated opposition leader, Chokri Belaid, or to apprehend his killers.

KABUL, Afghanistan Afghanistanan's intelligence agency, which has come under fire from Afghans for failing to detect multiple attacks here last weekend, said Saturday that it had apprehended militants plotting to kill one of the country's vice presidents and another group smuggling tons of explosives into the capital hidden in a truck of potatoes.

The fallacy involved here consists in failing to make "the distinction between act and object in our apprehending of things", as Russell (ibid. 42) puts it, or, in Moore's terminology of The Refutation, in wrongfully identifying the content of "consciousness" with its object (loc. cit., 19 ff).

After he was arrested in East Hampton last summer (for failing to pay a bed-and-breakfast bill), he jumped bail and did not turn up again until April, when he was apprehended in Canada and charged with fraud and sexual assault.

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