Sentence examples for have failed to exercise from inspiring English sources

Cummings, who retired in January 2009 following the Lloyds rescue after a career that began at Bank of Scotland when he was just 18, was found to have failed to "exercise due skill, care and diligence" in running the corporate banking division and failed to manage "high value transactions" as they showed signed of stress as the banking crisis took hold.

When a public authority fetters its discretion, it can either be said to have failed to exercise its discretionary power or to have been subject to external influences.

Congress's original passage of the Solomon amendment, conservatives' insincere claim that protest undermined recruiting, and the Supreme Court's willingness to allow the military to make unsubstantiated claims all suggest that some of our most powerful civilian leaders have failed to exercise civilian control of the armed forces.

It faulted the mayor and the police commissioner, Howard R. Leary, for having "failed to exercise leadership in the field of corruption".

The State Department determined that the companies had failed to exercise due diligence in the sale of the tanker to buyers acting as front companies for Iran.

Sequenom said Tuesday that its investigation concluded that the company had "failed to put in place adequate protocols and controls" for studies and that some employees had failed to exercise adequate supervision.

While the authors save their harshest judgments for Enron management, and describe the board as having failed to exercise oversight, they also say bluntly that the auditors did not carry out their mission.

But saying the Vietnam-era Congress had failed to exercise sufficient oversight of the war after passing the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, Mr. Cleland said the current Congress cannot rest after its vote.

Under the Public Health Act, Hanks said the city council had the jurisdiction to issue infringement notices to protesters and to create a safe access zone, but had failed to exercise this jurisdiction.

The military said that the officer had "failed to exercise appropriate judgment," adding that he would not serve in similar positions of command in the future and that he had been rebuked.

The inquiry will broaden in coming weeks to examine whether the government was lax in responding to the crisis or had failed to exercise effective safety and environmental oversight of the oil industry.