Sentence examples for whole failed to from inspiring English sources

"However, the fact that the commission as a whole failed to address very serious allegations is further evidence that the system needs reform".

But the symbolic dimension of democracy is hugely important to its perpetuation — that was one of the lessons of Reaganism that liberals on the whole failed to understand.

Though morality plays on the whole failed to achieve the vigorous realism of the Middle Ages' scriptural drama, this short play (about 900 lines) is more than an allegorical sermon because vivid characterization gives it dramatic energy.

For just over a quarter of a century British administrators had tried, and on the whole failed, to make sense of their League of Nations (later United Nations) mandate to rule Palestine.

Straight remakes have, on the whole, failed to capture the thrill of the originals, from a politically correct telefilm version of Rear Window, starring Christopher Reeve (already in a wheelchair in real life), to Gus Van Sant's 1998 shot-by-shot remake of Psycho, starring Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates.

While the Knicks' mismatched lineup has struggled recently and, on the whole, failed to captivate the team's fans this season, Scott Layden, the team's general manager, said yesterday that the franchise would avoid making a trade just for the sake of change.

Flashes of brilliance justify Coles's reputation among Broadway cognoscenti, but the show as a whole fails to justify itself in the age of YouTube (2 20).

Dr. Abu-Mostafa believed that prospective Caltech students would benefit from learning what it actually takes to be an engineer — something that high schools, on the whole, fail to teach adequately.

"For any one company, a failure to replace reserves is a problem, but if the industry as a whole fails to replace reserves, then oil prices will tend to rise.

The measures announced are certainly welcome, but the consultation as a whole fails to ask key questions about the kind of children's home provision we as a nation want for neglected children.

Though there are graphic pictures of FLN activists being tortured, the display as a whole fails to address what this dark period did for relations between the two countries.