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Example sentences for: failing

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Where Brill goes wrong is in failing to distinguish between the most innocuous and naturally occurring conflicts from those lipstick-smeared ones that could have and should have been avoided.
The Hispanic agents often come in for special pleading in Spanish and failing that, special abuse, from those they detain.
The Republican National Committee is obsessed with the topic, berating the Clinton administration weekly for failing to deploy a shield.
The inevitable legal challenges have arrived, but they're all piecemeal, failing to address sweeping constitutional questions.
She only alludes to Tobe, failing to introduce him to the reader, who is tempted to conclude that Tobe belongs to the race of 6-foot-tall rabbits.