Sentence examples for failure to stick from inspiring English sources

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But Collinsworth leveled the Eagles' Todd Pinkston, labeling his failure to stick to his route "the unpardonable sin" and "simply awful for a professional wide receiver".

What I thought of as failure to stick to my well-intentioned values was actually a beneficial adaptation for me and my children.

Hyperbolic discounting of delayed rewards has been proposed as an underlying cause of the failure to stick to plans to forego one's immediate desires, such as the plan to diet, wake up early, or quit taking heroin.

However, failure to stick to the routes, marked out with black-and-white posts, does not go down well with the guides, who regard it as an offence akin to seal-culling.

Right-wing forces in Japan, which are heavily represented in Mr. Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party, also expressed their dismay, this time for the prime minister's failure to stick to his campaign promise to visit Yasukuni on Aug. 15.

There's no shortage of explanations for this stalling from failure to stick with the core (or sticking with it for too long) to problems with execution, misreading of consumer tastes, or an unhealthy focus on scale for scale's sake.

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It also fails to reflect the underlying failure by police to stick to their agreement with the director of public prosecutions to approach and warn "all potential victims".

Markets were also unsettled by reports that the failure of Greece to stick to its austerity programme will lead to the IMF cutting off support.

The BBC Trust described the NAO's conclusions as "deeply worrying" and said the failure of management to stick by its own rules on payoffs was "entirely unacceptable".

"Some groups seem, either because of other people's attitudes or their own failure, to be stuck for generation after generation," he said.

Some, on the other hand, worry that attacks on Trump for his long track record of lies and failures seem never to stick, or that he will be able to magically cast off the burden of his extremist stances by moving to the middle.

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