Sentence examples for failures to grapple from inspiring English sources

Scheiber stresses policy over personal drama in this sober account of President Obama's economic team, the 2009 stimulus plan and what he sees as the administration's repeated failures to grapple forcefully with the economy and unemployment.

"The Escape Artists," a new book by Noam Scheiber, a senior editor at The New Republic, echoes such sentiments and goes on to provide a depressing account of what the author sees as the Obama team's repeated failures to grapple forcefully with the economy and unemployment.

and the bureau's failures to grapple with the implications of the August 2001 arrest of Zacarias Moussaoui, a French citizen who was arrested while in flight school and was later accused of ties to the terrorist cell that carried out the attacks.

The first is Mr Obama's failure to grapple as fast and as single-mindedly with the economy as he should have done.

The real tragedy of Adrian's failure to grapple with higher education, though, is that it marked the point when he and I parted company.

For nearly two years, Congressional Republicans made the Senate's failure to pass a budget plan "Exhibit A" in their indictment of what they called the Democrats' manifest failure to grapple with the government's fiscal misfortunes.

They will also have to stump up for smaller bail-outs in industries such as construction and sugar.Another failure to grapple with the system is the persistence of monopolies or near-monopolies in areas such as telecoms, beer and cement.

The failure to grapple with the past, analysts said, has been exacerbated by the belief of some Serbs that the United Nations tribunal in The Hague is an unjust entity meant to prosecute Serbs.

After all, our collective failure to grapple with genetic modification on its own terms been accompanied by the equally unfortunate failure to bring its benefits to cultures that might gain the most from it — insect-resistant cassava or drought-tolerant maize could be a boon to subsistence farmers in Africa.

He wants to set up a new technocratic committee that could mandate changes to the hugely expensive Medicare system of health care for the elderly (an idea that cleverly takes such difficult decisions out of the hands of politicians, who have displayed a lamentable failure to grapple with them).

Mr. Kagan's sometimes shaky reasoning is combined with a failure to grapple convincingly with crucial problems facing America today, the very problems that observers who worry about American decline have cited as clear and present dangers, including political gridlock at home, falling education scores, lowered social mobility and most important, a ballooning deficit.