Sentence examples for listen a failure from inspiring English sources

"They were taken to the woodshed and told, 'Listen, a failure to support the Aztek is tantamount to corporate disloyalty.' " Mr. Lutz also wants the cars to reconnect with a sense of art.

Someone listening a pat on the back".

Charlie tells him why: "Because you DON'T LISTEN!" This failure to listen has become a preoccupation in several recent American films whose protagonists become violent in order to define and perhaps even to redeem themselves.

The problem stemmed, he said, from a failure to listen to criticism.

Double standards and a failure to listen to criticism, he said, had brought the country to disaster.

The Republican establishment seems to suffer the same problem as the Democrats — a failure to listen to the American people and, most important, its own constituency.

Francis set out three primary and fundamental causes of what went wrong: a failure to listen to patients; a lack of properly trained staff and a dysfunctional culture.

Luckily I was too embarrassed about coming home a failure to listen to them and my hunch that I would be left alone was right.

His gradual realisation that the Vietcong was a nationalist movement rather than a front for communist domination taught him that undifferentiated accounts of the enemy, and a failure to listen to what they say, can be disastrous.

It is sobering to think that in 2016, racial and economic inequality and a failure to listen to women may still have a major impact on the health of mothers and babies.

Rebecca Schiller, director of Birthrights, the human rights in childbirth charity, has suggested that a failure to listen to pregnant women, and a tendency to dismiss their concerns, may be contributing to the problem.