Sentence examples for we failed to act from inspiring English sources

We failed to act nationally and locally over 30 years ago.

You could argue, though, that the times we failed to act led to arguably more horrendous results.

This started out as a careless mistake and was upgraded to a stupid mistake when we failed to act even after the vendor brought the situation to our attention.

"We failed to act decisively in the early stages of the epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, and now we are paying the price," said one of the group's leaders, David Serwadda of Uganda's Makerere University.

"If we don't do what's required now, I think future generations are going to look back and ask why we failed to act when the right course, the right side of history and our best American traditions, was clear".

But had we failed to act, or simply delayed the tough but inevitable choices we had to make during the crisis, it is likely that hundreds of thousands more businesses would have disappeared, millions more families would have lost their jobs and homes, and trillions more in savings would have been erased.

If we fail to act, it will become a crisis".

It will get worse if we fail to act.

If we fail to act now, the unfairness will only increase as we all live longer".

And every year we fail to act, the situation gets worse.

Its chairman, Malcolm Hoenlein, said, "If we fail to act or act and fail, the consequences would be great".