Sentence examples for have failed to apply from inspiring English sources

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.

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".

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.

For each of these attributes we identify how they work in nature and how we have failed to apply them in our responses to security concerns.

But there is no evidence to suggest that these background conditions have failed to apply in these particular cases (Batson 2008: 57).

Both not only voted to authorize President Bush's irrational invasion of Iraq but also have failed to apply those lessons to the real challenges we face, particularly concerning Iran.

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

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.

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.

Consumers Union argued that in reinstating the suit, the Ninth Circuit had failed to apply this "actual malice" standard with sufficient rigor and had looked just at isolated facts, not the whole record.

It may also reopen the argument over whether the LLDC broke European state-aid rules, after the Guardian revealed earlier this year that it had failed to apply to the European Commission for an exemption.