Sentence examples for failure to specify from inspiring English sources

Failure to specify performance conditions has been the bane of industrial policy from India to New Zealand.

Mr. Camp and Mr. Ryan have taken heat from the left and budget watchdogs for the budget's failure to specify a single tax loophole to close, much less the changes necessary to keep the tax rate reductions "revenue neutral".

After Sept. 11, assurances that downtown air was safe to breathe, and the Environmental Protection Agency's failure to specify the need for indoor cleanup, made it impossible for families like my own to collect on our tenant insurance policies (which would have paid for temporary living accommodations and asbestos abatement).

In non-exceptional cases, a failure to specify all four of causes, is, he maintains, a failure in explanatory adequacy.

Be sure to check for factual errors or omissions on your ticket the failure to specify a location or date for the offense can sometimes result in dismissal.

Slavery may be ended by manumission, banishment, a failure to specify the status of slaves in one's will, and notably by putting a slave into chains (except for a crime, or as punishment).

Therefore, the most effective way of reducing pipe failures is to specify designs in detail and check construction closely to see that the design has been followed and that details not specified have been constructed according to good engineering practice.

False assumptions about the linearity or non-linearity of the model or failure to correctly specify the regression coefficients may result in misleading conclusions.

In any case, ambiguity — the existence of several meanings for an expression — should be distinguished from nambiguity (the existence of many different bearers of a proper name), from vagueness (meanings with unclear boundaries of application), and underdetermination (failure to fully specify a meaning).

Failure to adequately specify the scope of the programme and the PBMA exercise can have a similar impact.

These data illustrate that failure to recognize, specify, and consider these factors is likely to result in equivocal studies subject to possible misinterpretation.