Sentence examples for had failed to apply from inspiring English sources

The Utah Supreme Court reversed the award in December 2001, concluding that the trial court had failed to apply the proper law.

Hilary Benn, the shadow communities secretary, said his figures showed the government had "failed to apply the basic principle of fairness" when allocating money to local government.

But a federal appeals panel overturned the sentence in 2008, agreeing with prosecutors that the judge had failed to apply a provision of sentencing guidelines related to terrorism that could have led to a longer term.

The court said Medicare officials had "failed to apply the correct legal standard," and it cited court rulings in support of the proposition that the Medicare law "is to be liberally construed in favor of beneficiaries".

The Home Office was, for instance, ruled to have acted illegally in denying benefits to six Afghan refugees because they had failed to apply for asylum at the port of entry.

It said Toyota had failed to apply the principles of its manufacturing process, known as "the Toyota Way" and built around the concept of detecting and responding to problems quickly, to evaluate criticism from external sources.

Yet bad-tempered peace talks between the warring parties have stalled, agreements have proved hollow and the international community has failed to apply the requisite pressure.

Yet, from Vietnam to Iraq, and now Iran, the editorial page of The Times has failed to apply this most fundamental rule of international law to the threats and use of force by the United States.

Unfortunately, however, the current German government and, woefully, too many liberals in Europe and the United States have failed to apply a no less important lesson of World War II: total victory in war followed by military occupation were essential preconditions for de-Nazification and democratization of German society.

He said he would make sure human rights trials were accelerated and laws would be "correctly applied" — a clear reference to the amnesty law and the statute of limitations on investigations, both of which judges have failed to apply over the past decade.

The policy is triggered if the bank is put into insolvency proceedings and employees are found to have failed to apply their job with the "degree of skill and care an ordinarily prudent person in a like position would exercise under similar circumstances".