Sentence examples for fails to direct from inspiring English sources

This urge grows stronger as the novel proceeds, resulting in increasing abstraction, a thinking about thinking that fails to direct light on the facets of the characters but dulls them instead.

This non-productive pathway loads TBP onto promoters in a state that fails to direct proper assembly of the transcription machinery.

When Carew won the header, he failed to direct the ball back across goal.

By half-time they had failed to direct a shot on target or win a corner.

How can people be shocked when men and women who condone jihad fail to direct the alleged victims of rape to the police?

Poll workers may also fail to direct a voter to the right precinct — there can be multiple voting precincts in the same voting hall — or fail to fully check that a provisional ballot has been filled out properly.

Damningly, they failed to direct a single shot on target on a day when the No9's opening goal, deftly registered on the brink of half-time, seemed to provoke a near wholesale home surrender.

Most North-South pairs had a plus score, either by resting in a partial or by making three no-trump when West had failed to direct himself not to lead a spade.

Should he fail to direct the Dodgers to the playoffs, critics could reconsider his Yankees years and suggest that he won in those years because of the monstrous payrolls George Steinbrenner provided.

Mr. Roh's office said that Mr. Yoon, above, had failed to direct and supervise the president's foreign policy while "dissent and confusion" could be seen in the country's diplomatic efforts.

(One of the many films Scott planned and failed to direct was RKO 281, about the making of Kane, a story Scott described as 'art against commerce'. Eventually, Scott produced a cut-price version for the upmarket HBO cable network).