non-fulfilment

I was promised a Port by the Company for my money, and I intend to protest against receiving any Sections of land on this coast, and to bring an action against the Company for their non-fulfilment of the contract between us, I claiming a return of my money paid to them, together with every expence to which I have been put, and damages of all sorts which the law will allow.

New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

The proprietors of this little work having determined on reprinting it, some explanation seems called for, to account for the non-appearance of a third part promised in the London Magazine of December last; and the more so because the proprietors, under whose guarantee that promise was issued, might otherwise be implicated in the blame — little or much — attached to its non-fulfilment.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 2003

All Cossacks make their own wine, and drunkenness is not so much a general tendency as a rite, the non-fulfilment of which would be considered apostasy.

The Cossacks 2003

"By supporting the electoral process in Zambia, the EU is demonstrating its preparedness to walk that necessary extra mile despite the obvious non-fulfilment by the government of obligations under the financing agreement," the statement said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

"Similarly, the poor execution and non-fulfilment of housing contracts is a source of significant concern, as is ... the non - or under-recovery of rates and taxes."

ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

It is too long a time for the non-fulfilment of the decisions of the United Nations.

TWENTY YEARS OF THE BRITISH ANTI-APARTHEID MOVEMENT (1979) 1979

But the reproach of non-fulfilment of the trust committed to them will rest upon "the next ages" no longer; for the edition which is now in course of publication amply redeems the faults of those that have preceded it, and is such a one as Bacon himself might have approved.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various

This supposes, naturally, that non-fulfilment of obligations is due on our part to unwillingness -- a positive refusal, or its equivalent, wilful neglect, to undo the wrongs committed.

Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals

Kind words would cost the master nothing, and he could easily put off any non-fulfilment upon the overseer.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

One of the conditions under which the colony entered the dominion was the speedy construction of the Canadian Pacific railway, and in 1876 the non-fulfilment of this promise and the apparent indifference of the government at Ottawa to the representations of British Columbia created [v. 04 p. 0601] strained relations, which were only ameliorated when the construction of a transcontinental road was begun.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various