Sentence examples for an unsuccessful venture from inspiring English sources

De Gaulle would not risk his prestige on an unsuccessful venture.

Carlyle struggled in its first several years, making an unsuccessful venture into airline food, with Caterair, and losing a bid for the restaurant chain Chi-Chi's.

The prosecutors did this by introducing evidence of the defendants' behavior in situations involving an Atlantic City gambling-casino project and an unsuccessful venture to build a New Jersey garbage-recycling facility - situations that were not part of the charges in the trial.

For example, the plan might include project goals, start-up costs, advertising, projected results, and parameters for discontinuing an unsuccessful venture.

But when it comes to building a business case, they are unsophisticated," says Melby. "I saw really charismatic people with brilliant ideas who were very hazy on how to make it commercially sustainable". That, he feared, would lead to an unsuccessful venture or, at least, one unable to reach its full potential.

Tango, the U.S. messaging service valued at over $1 billion, recently laid off staff after an unsuccessful venture into e-commerce, but Line's gift shop purchases are so inexpensive that the main goal of the project appears to be getting users to sign up for Line Pay.

It was a "largely unsuccessful venture," partly, perhaps, because its water was stored near a polluted Manhattan pond.

A Spanish Settlement in Carolina, 1526: a brief, unhappy, unsuccessful venture.

He was a lifelong Labour party supporter, which led him to chair, in 1986, the colourful, but unsuccessful, venture to establish a new, radical newspaper, the News On Sunday, based in Manchester.

After an unsuccessful first venture into politics, Burke was appointed secretary in 1765 to the Marquess of Rockingham, leader of one of the Whig groups, the largely liberal faction in Parliament, and he entered the House of Commons that year.

Dial then disbanded an unsuccessful joint venture with European specialty chemical outfit Henkel, a moneyloser.