Sentence examples for achievement failed to from inspiring English sources

There he successfully fixed and then sold the troubled insurance business Winterthur, but his achievement failed to get him the chief executive position at the Zurich-based Credit Suisse he wanted, and Mr. Fischer quit for RHJI.

The Mets, understandably caught up in the euphoria of their achievement, failed to realize they had holes, none of which surfaced during the first two rounds of the 2000 playoffs, when they played perhaps their best baseball of the year.

As in most previous studies, differences in mathematics achievement fail to explain gendered patterns of selection into college majors.

It is hard to see how these achievements fail to merit honor.

But his web page documenting his gubernatorial achievements fails to mention that Rounds is best known as a governor who tried really hard to ban abortion.

The North Korean soccer team qualified for the World Cup for the first time in more than four decades, but the historic achievement has failed to arouse much passion among the soccer intelligentsia or among fans looking for an underdog to root for.

Homework had a significant direct effect on Achievement, but failed to have any effect direct or indirect on any other component of success.

Obama acknowledged hard times but went on to answer with a laundry list of achievements that failed to address the underlying tone of disillusionment in the question.

It seems that perhaps, among his many guises and achievements, Ignatieff has failed to be something meaningful for Canadians themselves.

The fact she made it there at all was an achievement but, unsurprisingly, she failed to qualify for the final.

Citizen Kane (1941) Now regarded as a landmark achievement in film, it failed to make a profit on its cinema release and hurt the reputation of Orson Welles, its 25-year-old boy wonder writer-director-actor.