Sentence examples for he failed to understand from inspiring English sources

How had he failed to understand this right away?

An old-fashioned populist, he failed to understand that drastic reform was needed.

He failed to understand the economic implications of what he did.

Sometimes, Giambi said, McGwire sounded like "Charlie Brown's teacher," and he failed to understand every lesson.

James said he failed to understand "how big the Olympics were" and felt "out of the loop" in 2004.

But he either failed to rein in his bank's reckless trading, or he failed to understand it.

He failed to understood what Clegg intuited perfectly – that TV debates are aimed not at the logical, but at the emotional part of the voter's brain.

While it would be welcome to see the vocabulary of black radicalism enter the American mainstream, Hayes diminishediminishes the stark differences between black activists' understandings of internal colonialism and Nixon's, and he fails to understand the implications of the idea.

"What he fails to understand is that the days of bossism are over.

He fails to understand the full extent of how out of date the law is.

But what he fails to understand is that DRM's entire purpose is to require permission to innovate.