Sentence examples for had failed to determine from inspiring English sources

Mr. Graham said that American intelligence agencies had failed to determine the extent of the terrorist threat even as the country prepared for war.

However, the court also decided that the lower courts had failed to determine whether the collective-bargaining agreements as they were actually administered effectively permitted employees to use personal-business days for any purpose other than religious ones.

Since philosophy had failed to determine a secure path towards happiness, he committed each individual to do so in his own way.[16] Montaigne wants to escape the stifling of thought by knowledge, a wide-spread phenomenon which he called "pedantism',[17] an idea that he may have gleaned from the tarnishing of professors by the Commedia dell'arte.

Paraffin tumour samples from 21 cases of 'true' CUP patients in whom standard investigation had failed to determine a primary site of malignancy were investigated using diagnostic gene profiling.

It also had failed to determine if "missing scientific information" (relating mainly to polar bear and walrus ecology, Van Tuyn says) was "relevant or essential" to protecting natural resources from drilling operations.

Investigators have failed to determine who ordered the hit.

RICK JAMES AUTOPSY INCONCLUSIVE -- An autopsy for the funk singer Rick James has failed to determine the cause of death, The Associated Press reported.

But for decades, the government has failed to determine who is healthy and who is sick with any precision, with the result that private plans receive larger payments to cover their patients' costs than necessary.

While it is obvious that people in big, heavy cars fare better than people in small, light ones in collisions with other vehicles and with stationary objects, the analyses have failed to determine whether the benefit comes from the weight or from the size, according to the report, which was sponsored by the Energy Foundation, a nonprofit group that favors stricter fuel economy standards.

Alopecia in women is a common problem, and conflicting observational data have failed to determine whether an association exists between alopecia and iron deficiency in women.

It has left the regulatory bodies unfocused and ineffective, and it has failed to determine specific regulatory policy, he said.