Sentence examples for we failed to understand from inspiring English sources

Haven't we failed to understand Arab grievances?

We failed to understand the media, the culture, even the language in that region.

Whilst we were reactive to negative PR we failed to understand the importance of positive PR to inform others of what we were trying to achieve with our business strategy.

In the great general turning from the state we failed to understand that one of the things that taxes ought to fund is a general, unglamorous and reliable access to culture for everyone.

We failed to understand just how seriously the mortgage standards, the underwriting standards, had declined, what had happened with the complexity of securitization and the risks that were building in the financial system around that".

"WE have made many stupid mistakes, because of our ambitions and because we failed to understand what is going on in the country and the entire complexity of its social and regional peculiarities," Mr. Khodorkovsky wrote in a letter published by Russia's Interfax news service in April.

In this, as in so many ways, we fail to understand what would truly improve our quality of life.

In fact, he asserts, we will be able to afford the cost of these services in the future — unless we fail to understand the nature of this phenomenon.

But we fail to understand how your organisation has become the global arbiter of the means and ends of education around the world.

We fail to understand how making families poorer will 'increase financial resilience and support improved life chances for children', as claimed in the government impact assessment".

If we fail to understand and take care of the natural world, it can cause a breakdown of these systems and come back to haunt us in ways we know little about.