Sentence examples for term fails to from inspiring English sources

The literal translation of geci is "sperm", but even that English term fails to convey the Hungarian word's connotations of disdain.

The MPs say the term fails to acknowledge the wide range of techniques that can now be used to introduce genetic changes in crops.

From Lavoisier's perspective, for example, the antiquated term dephlogisticated air sometimes means "what remains when phlogiston is removed from the air" (in which case, because there is no such substance as phlogiston, the term fails to pick out anything in the world).

The Westervelt equation with a traditional loss term fails to incorporate the full dispersive characteristics of the medium, a deficiency which can be removed, at least in principle by replacing the traditional loss term with the causal convolutional propagation factor.

But then when a term fails to denote, the truth value of an atomic formula containing it cannot as usual be a function of its denotation, and the formula must be evaluated in some nonstandard way.

But this blanket term fails to adequately describe what was a complicated case of sexual extortion and abusive humiliation perpetrated by a blackmailer with a penchant for naked underage girls.

On Iraq, Rice as national security adviser in Bush's first term failed to bring any detached light to bear on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's blind optimism.

Though most second-term presidents – except Bill Clinton who had already lost Congress in his first term – fail to make gains at midterm elections, the overwhelming scale of this defeat, and Obama's failure to defend his record, may ultimately be added to his list of operational failures.

Then, on a strict reading of the descriptivist account, the corresponding theoretical term failed to refer in T. For if there is nothing that satisfies a description, the corresponding expression has no referent.

I have written before in this column that Iran is poised to fill the vacuum left by the Ottoman Empire's demise in the Middle East, a vacuum that the West intended to fill but over the long term failed to do so.

But the term failed to catch on, perhaps because most politicians couldn't claim with a straight face that confidential medical records should be made public on industry's behalf.