Sentence examples for had failed to assert from inspiring English sources

Despite his four goals and one assistgoing into yesterday, Messi had failed to assert his authority in the way he manages for Barcelona.

Justice Breyer declined to address a second argument made by the company — that the law applies only to complaints made to the government and not to private employers — because the company had failed to assert the argument adequately when the case first reached the Supreme Court.

The game was goalless at the time, Roma had failed to assert themselves and Totti was left to slunk off the pitch after a frustrating afternoon in which he had received the first booking for a foul he committed after being caught in possession.

The federal district court in Miami ruled that the Republicans had failed to assert a violation of federal constitutional rights and therefore refused to intervene in the decision of state officials.

"Organized psychiatry has failed to assert itself," he said.

The U.S. has failed to assert itself as the most influential power, and has too often allowed excessive violence to severely undermine the peace process as happened during the second Intifada under the Bush administration's watch between years 2000 and 2006.

However, prospective studies have failed to assert the superiority of one shunt design over another [ 43, 45, 46].

But he repeatedly said he thought that the city had failed to do its job, asserting that in the future, the agency should go to court if necessary to win access to the building involved.

More than a week after two New York City firefighters died in a smoky fire at the former Deutsche Bank building, city officials relieved three senior fire officers of their posts yesterday, asserting they had failed to inspect the building or to draw up a specific plan on how to fight a fire inside the contaminated tower.

It asserted that Israel had failed to keep promises to ease restrictions on the movements of ordinary Palestinians hemmed in by checkpoints and blockades of cities and villages.

They asked the judge in the case, Robert P. Patterson Jr. of Federal District Court in Manhattan, to dismiss all of the charges against their client, asserting that prosecutors had failed to make their case.