Sentence examples for had not been alert from inspiring English sources

Top officials from Mr. Bush down strenuously rejected any suggestion that they had not been alert to the threat of terrorism, and working hard to face it from Day 1.

That ability to lift the game again seemed to break Italy's resolve and Jones will have been delighted that his plan worked, although if Jonathan Joseph had not been alert to score the interception try after 53 minutes nerves would have been severely tested.

FHA was under Romney's purview, and he conceded that HUD had been unprepared to deal with speculators and had not been alert to earlier signs of illegal activity.

"Imagine what would've happened if we had not been alerted to your grievous error," FootSoldier adds.

The lead was a spade, but South had not been alerted to spade length on his left.

After not attending an antenatal appointment (because she had not been alerted to it), she received a torrent of calls and notes instructing her to ring the hospital.

She had not been alerted to the position by the recruiters, who emailed prospective heads, but had applied for the job directly.

Indeed if the Health Department had not been alerted to the case by a private doctor, it might well have hibernated in the F.B.I. files.

He was also clear that he had not been alerted to the abuse claims that finally toppled the Kids Company edifice three weeks ago.

The commissioner said the Parks Department had not been alerted of the deer's presence until it was spotted in the river yesterday.

But it turned out that Mr. Verrilli's assurances clashed with the practices of national security prosecutors, who had not been alerting such defendants that evidence in their cases had stemmed from wiretapping their conversations without a warrant.