Sentence examples for we failed to be from inspiring English sources

We failed to be sufficiently afraid of the alternative.

"And the only way the Democratic Party could fail to win in the year 2000 is if we did not take the reform mantle and we failed to be bold enough in these times of enormous change".

"Thinking of the parable of the Prodigal Son," Chambers continued, "we failed to be the father and we became the religious, rules-oriented older brother".

In our board's effort to unite around the church's shared mission to serve the poor in the name of Christ, we failed to be consistent with World Vision U.S.'s commitment to the traditional understanding of Biblical marriage and our own Statement of Faith, which says, "We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God".

How could we fail to be proud of such achievements?

"If we fail to be competitive around the experience, it doesn't really matter what we have," Keegan said.

"If we fail to be a city for everyone, we risk losing what makes New York New York".

"I don't understand why we fail to be seriously entertaining the idea of quotas," he said.

Because if we fail to be able to understand them in our past, we don't have the tools to understand the risk of them in the future".

Clearly we are less aware of the order of values of the baroque era than we ought to be, when we fail to be staggered by some exquisite display of tapestries.

We suffer in these ways only because we have some awareness that we are spiritual beings who are related to God, and that in many ways we fail to be true to this religious relationship.