Sentence examples for failure of comprehension from inspiring English sources

Strategies include a variety of measures that readers take during the failure of comprehension.

They are rewarded (by, e.g., parental approval) or punished (by, say, a failure of comprehension) for their various linguistic productions and as a result, their dispositions to verbal behavior gradually converge on those of the wider language community.

This is especially odd because, in the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, we seem to have had the raw intelligence we needed, and just didn't use it intelligently — it was more a failure of reading comprehension than information gathering.

The current study suggests that sensitivity to interference from similar items in memory may provide a better explanation of comprehension failure.

Accounts of comprehension failure, whether in the case of readers with poor skill or when syntactic complexity is high, have overwhelmingly implicated working memory capacity as the key causal factor.

Failure to perform spirometry was due to lack of comprehension (4 children) or failure to repeat spirometry after baseline measurements (7 children).

Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad.

Failure to report diabetes on surveys could result from lack of comprehension (e.g., perceiving that treatment cures disease) or the stigma of having a chronic disease commonly associated with poor lifestyle habits.

A relationship between patient satisfaction and rating of comprehension of the information received has been reported (Kincey et al, 1975), and failure to reassure has been linked to a failure to provide explanations at women's level of understanding.

Marr's lack of comprehension was tangible.

Matters of comprehension and artistic quality didn't concern us.