Sentence examples for i failed to recognize from inspiring English sources

Mr. Rumsfeld also took responsibility for failing to tell Mr. Bush and Congress about the developing scandal, saying, "I failed to recognize how important it was to elevate a matter of such gravity to the highest levels, including the president and the members of Congress".

Rumsfeld added, "I failed to recognize how important it was".

"I failed to recognize this Libor issue as being one of these issues".

I failed to recognize just how powerful the Fed's mortgage purchasing program, Operation Twist, was.

I missed the English version, waiting for it to cycle back again, but gave up after the third language that I failed to recognize.

Dakotah quizzed me on the songs I knew, and each time I failed to recognize a hit he laughed and sang it for me in a whispery, high-pitched voice.

"What if," the monk Tenzin Zopa worried aloud in his tent one night, "I fail to recognize my master's new form?" Mr. Baratz, who shared that tent and shot the film on a budget of substantially less than $1 million, recalls silently cringing.

I fail to recognize that right now.

Usually when I fail to recognize someone I've met before it's because I was overloaded with new people at the time or because I'm just bad with faces… and names.

While as a Catholic, I was among those who sided with Pope Francis, praying and fasting for peace, that does not mean that I fail to recognize the horror of these weapons.

Still, John Turturro approximates my uniqueness in "Monday Night Mayhem," but Jon Voight in "Ali" renders me into a personage so dreary that I nearly failed to recognize me until I saw the ABC logo on Voight's jacket.