Sentence examples for for not grappling from inspiring English sources

For a department with an annual budget of just £3 billion, that is, as Mr Huhne puts it, an "existential" problem.He blamed the "short-termism" of his predecessors for not grappling earlier with the problem of nuclear decommissioning.

Yet he faults the president for not grappling with the crisis and instead running through his campaign "shopping list": raising the minimum wage, cutting the price of petrol, bringing in the 75% tax rate and so on.

He had made the inspired choice of Professor Jakes Gerwel as cabinet secretary, but Mandela did not always give a clear lead, and was criticised, particularly by business leaders, for not grappling with urgent issues including tackling corruption and crime.

They're not grappling with their sexuality.

Fundraisers too are aware of, but not grappling with, it.

It's when you stop Web surfing that you remember that you have not grappled for fish, you have not been to the Missouri, you have not studied Ojibwe, you have not seen the waterfalls of Transylvania County or Slovenia.

The sides have not grappled with benefits for retired players.

Sidney Holt, a pre-eminent fisheries scientist for over half a century, complains that my column does not grapple with key issues.

We have not grappled with anything like this before".

But even for people who don't grapple with depression or emotional eating, the fact remains that will power is not a bottomless pit; nor do resilience and the emotional energy needed to try again when you fall short of your dietary goals come easily.

If they don't grapple with these questions, it feels almost unseemly, even eccentric, for the reader to take them on.