Sentence examples for interpret a failure from inspiring English sources
They would interpret a failure to back up his declaration that Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi had "lost the legitimacy to lead" as a sign of weakness — and perhaps as a signal that Mr. Obama was equally unwilling to back up his vow never to allow Iran to gain the ability to build a nuclear weapon.
(It is also possible to use, but harder to interpret, an accelerated failure time model here).
We provide evidence that a subset of older adults do not modulate BOLD-measured activity within an attentional control network in response to changing task demands, which we interpret as a failure of dynamic allocation of attention.
Because epidemiologic research measures illness and mortality that have already occurred, a positive study can be interpreted to represent a failure in prevention.
Nicola Mallard at Investec said: A setback in revenues in the second quarter is disappointing, but should not be interpreted as a failure of the group's strategy.
If these and other negative possibilities were to come to pass, America's support could be interpreted as a failure of its Africa policy.
And it's therefore an amazing triumph of misinformation the way that lackluster economic performance has been interpreted as a failure of government spending.
Thus economic development after independence became an objective of policy not only because of the humanitarian desire to raise living standards but also because political promises had been made, and failure to make progress toward development would, it was feared, be interpreted as a failure of the independence movement.
Several diplomats and officials briefed on the talks said that settling on a second loan package by Sunday night was too ambitious, and that holding a meeting that did not produce a detailed agreement would be interpreted as a failure by the financial markets.
