Sentences with phrase «failure to»

Failure to do so is taken extraordinarily seriously: one senior executive was subjected to a series of interrogations by then general counsel James Comey over whether she had lied about typing an e-mail versus merely dictating it.

According to serial entrepreneur Steve Blank, small businesses use the fear of failure to drive innovation.

«Down one road — a road defined by the commission's failure to put in place meaningful open internet rules — is an internet that looks more like cable TV, one characterized by legalized discrimination, carriage disputes, gamesmanship, and content blackouts which harms consumers.

Here we apply a new model of elastic - brittle failure to test the alternative view that successive episodes promote a long - term accumulation of stress in the crust.

«It would send a very bad signal [about Washington's failure to stick to its agreements] including to North Korea.»

Failure to successfully market our products and brand in new and existing markets could harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.

That's important to the administration after it felt burned by the failure to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Failure to clinch an agreement leaves SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, a dealmaker who raised close to $ 100 billion for his Vision Fund to invest in technology companies, needing to find another option for Sprint.

Points expiration / losing points: Your points don't expire as long as your account remains open, however, you will immediately lose all your points if your account status changes, or your account is closed for program misuse, fraudulent activities, failure to pay, bankruptcy, or other reasons described in the terms of the Rewards Program Agreement.

The organization refused to address these concerns, and I believe these misleading claims about me are part of an attempt to shift blame for the failure to remove employees who created an uncomfortable and hostile work environment within the Mavericks organization.»

The greatest source of contention is oftentimes a failure to take the time to understand each other's point of view.

Recently several media outlets have dug up a handful of business owners with worrying tales to tell of Trump's bullying, unfairness, and failure to pay.

As CtW commented this time around, «While Ms. Friedman herself brings a modicum of gender diversity to the board, her failure to address the board's broader composition over her 21 year tenure suggests that the board will be better served by replacing her with a fresh and diverse nominee.»

«Anything less than winning the world will be a failure to me,» Livingston will tell you.

Together with Manafort, Gates had been indicted on 12 charges related to money laundering, tax fraud, failure to register as foreign agents, and conspiracy against the United States.

It therefore makes sense that conventional medicine — which seeks to chemically alter or surgically remove an isolated body part — typically fails in treating chronic illness, in the proverbial failure to see the forest through the trees.

«And when the president gets into the kind of controversy he does, and the U.N. committee responds the way it does, they begin to doubt whether we are living those values,» Wallace said, referring to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination's criticism of the United States government's failure to adequately condemn white supremacists and the events in Charlottesville.

In a sense — as even the young journalist himself admitted — this was a sideshow compared to the real event: a university administrator stepping down under pressure because of his failure to act on repeated racist incidents on campus.

The incident that took place on March 18 is an unquestionable failure to comply with this expectation.»

In that particular case, however, it was the CEO's failure to draw clear lines of responsibility that created a dysfunctional overlap that never should have happened.

Giving the CPPIB a larger role would be only one of several potential recourses to mitigate the problem of Canadians» failure to save for retirement, says Wiseman, who stresses that it's ultimately up to policy - makers to decide.

We strongly feel the maxim «failure is not fatal but failure to try is.»

While the two beverages remained on the shelves together until «New Coke» was discontinued in North America in 2002, New Coke's legacy is still one of failure to this day.

According to MIT researcher Donald Sull, the single greatest challenge that global CEOs face for executing their company's strategy is failure to align.

His one strategic regret is the failure to snap up Ontario's 135 Big V stores in 1996, which Shoppers later gobbled up.

Another contributing factor to high bounce rates is the failure to present readers with multiple content options that might interest them.

But failure to prepare for the inevitable leaves an entrepreneur's beneficiaries facing estate taxes that can be as high as 60 % — with no alternatives beyond selling or dismantling the business simply to pay off the tax man.

But the comedian knew he was poking a bear: When his writers reached out to Murray Energy for comment, the company sent a letter instructing the show to «cease and desist from any effort to defame, harass, or otherwise injure Mr. Murray or Murray Energy» and added that «failure to do so will result in immediate litigation.»

«Labeling Bitcoin mining as a «waste» is a failure to look at the big picture,» Marc Bevand, a bitcoin miner, wrote in a blog.

Failure to act is a serious problem that's getting worse.

Many believe the demise stemmed from Twitter's failure to integrate the app into its main stream, as it did with Vine.

There was no suggestion that either Slonim or Mayer were suspects in Friday's attack, which killed 18 - month - old Ali Saad Dawabsha, sparking an international outcry over Israel's failure to get to grips with violence by hardline Jewish settlers.

Leung's failure to demonstrate his competence and leadership will weaken Beijing's case and broaden the support for democracy in Hong Kong.

Berkshire Hathaway's mortgage business has the hallmarks of one that could be prosecuted for «failure to serve» under the Fair Housing Act, according to Eric Halperin, a former federal prosecutor who oversaw fair lending cases during President Barack Obama's first term.

While at least one class action has been filed by users against Ashley Madison for its failure to property [sic] secure the hacked information, this action deals with a different injury inflicted upon Ashley Madison users by persons and entities who have obtained the stolen data, repurposed it such that it is more readily accessible and searchable by the media and curious Internet users, and actively distributed it for their own gain.

Just hoping things will turn out well stops us from making tough choices, believing the best about others can get you taken advantage of, and a failure to look at the world as it truly is can be harmful to both your business and your personal life.

BlackBerry still owns more than 40 % of the North American smartphone market, and though it continues to show healthy growth in emerging markets, investors worry about the declining average sale price for its products, about RIM's failure to make a dent in the consumer marketplace, and about the growing sense that it no longer offers an enterprise user anything that one of its sexier rivals doesn't do as well or better.

If my proxy solicitation results in Mr. Hagenbuch's failure to receive over 50 % of the votes cast for his election, then I believe the failure of the board to accept his resignation would be an egregious violation of proper corporate governance and in direct opposition to a clear shareholder directive.

However, some economists and critics have said while the budget moved in the right direction when it comes to raising female labour - force participation, its failure to announce steps towards national affordable child care likely means a significant number of women will remain out of the workforce.

Unions said in a statement more than 500 Amazon workers at the Piacenza site in northern Italy had agreed to strike following a failure to negotiate bonuses with the company.

The ability to take that strong criticism may counteract the failure to learn, which Ehrenfeld says can bring down any start - up.

In May, the PCAOB disclosed that E&Y had failed to make sufficient efforts to address previous PCAOB criticisms, which included, among others, «apparent failure to appropriately challenge management» and failure to test loan loss reserves.

For such organizations, failure to have a positive impact is the exception, rather than the rule.

On the managerial front, the new structure comes amid Google's failure to win over EU antitrust regulators.

The Business: A Romanian restaurant and nightclub Opened: October 1996 Closed: July 1997 Causes of Death: Owners» failure to account for the sensibilities of core customers; a prolonged delay in opening the business

Despite its sudden change of course and failure to go private after months of searching for a buyer, BlackBerry touted today's news as a «significant vote of confidence.»

At J.Crew, Mr. Drexler's failure to communicate is just one more example for those who favor separation of the CEO and chair positions to point to as a demonstration of the difficulty of one individual holding both roles.

Bhide also points out that Solomon CEO John Gutfreund was «fired just for delays in reporting bad behavior» to the Fed — and that «Skilling is behind bars» for «puffery» and a failure to be forthcoming.

Not «victim blaming» the UK NHS for failure to patch is like not «victim blaming» an airline for failing to maintain aircraft after a crash

Over the years, administrators of the Pell Grant system have come to expect that each year thousands of otherwise eligible applicants will be denied the benefit because of failure to register for the draft.