Sentence examples for failing to interpret from inspiring English sources

He generously declined to challenge their faith, but did chastise them for failing to interpret Genesis "as history", adding: "If you take ideas from outside the Bible and use them to reinterpret what's in the Bible, you're undermining the authority of Scripture".

But they would also depart from their duty by failing to interpret and apply concepts that are written into the Constitution's text.

This participant was not alone among carers in being unsure about what the family had been told, or in failing to interpret this in the way intended by staff.

However, they can also impede patient/provider communication by failing to interpret all that is said, by interpreting incorrectly, by answering the clinician's questions directly in place of the patient, and by engaging the clinician and/or patient in side conversations [ 61, 62].

In a damning report on the decision to hand a near-monopoly of courtroom interpreting in England and Wales to the company Applied Language Solutions (ALS), the justice select committee criticises the Ministry of Justice for failing to understand the complexity of the service.

Thus she was now seeing only individual features of an object or picture, failing to synthesize them, to see them as a whole, much less to interpret them correctly.

But as Bishop Jefferts Schori interpreted the passage, Paul was guilty of failing to value diversity, to see the slave girl's beautiful "difference".

"Some recent faculty statements have generated confusion about complex theological matters, and could be interpreted as failing to reflect the distinctively Christian theological identity of Wheaton College.

Rejecting the null hypothesis is often interpreted to mean the intervention has an effect; failing to reject the null hypothesis is interpreted to mean the intervention does not have an effect.

The lack of a statistically significant correlation in these data must be interpreted carefully, as failing to find a significant correlation is not the same as demonstrating that it does not exist [ 16].

Other commonly identified patient information weaknesses include it being poorly presented and overly complex [ 10], not taking into account how patients interpret information [ 21, 26], failing to adequately incorporate lay and biomedical advice [ 21, 23, 27], and not offering hope or providing reassurance about the prognosis and effects of chronic long term conditions [ 23].