"History will judge harshly those who saw this coming danger but failed to act," Mr. Bush said in late 2002.

“历史将严厉地审判那些看到即将到来的危险而没有采取行动的人，”布什先生在2002年年底说。

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But the Department of Health failed to act even after the World Health Organisation in the summer reclassified sunbeds as being as carcinogenic as cigarettes, arsenic and asbestos.

然而，即使在世界卫生组织去年夏天将太阳床重新归为香烟、砷和石棉一类致癌物后，英国卫生部也未能随之推行禁令。

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But what the prosecution failed to comprehend was that the 1959 Act had wrought some important changes in the law.

控方不能明白的是，1959年法令将某些重要变化写进了法案。

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Conservative culture secretary Theresa May says the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) recognised the difficulties but failed to act.

BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Pub music licence fears 'ignored'

They charge that Wal-Mart has lagged far behind its competitors in its promotion of women and knew of discrimination against its female employees but failed to act.

WSJ: Supreme Court Will Hear Wal-Mart Challenge to Class-Action Suit

The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Christopher Cox, acknowledged today that his agency had serious evidence of wrongdoing by Madoff for a long time but failed to act on it.

NPR: Madoff Placed Under House Arrest