Sentence examples for and failed for from inspiring English sources

Fox Sports Net tried, and failed, for example, to sustain a news operation against "Sports Center.

"Having tried and failed for so many years, we just happened to be at the right place at the right time," Hyde says.

Bosnia's carnage had confounded the world's most experienced diplomats; ineffective talks and plans had played out and failed for three bloody years.

The city has tried and failed for decades to rid itself of the Phelpses, or at the very least to quiet them a bit.

During his tenure, the F.B.I. struggled to bring its crime laboratory into the modern era and failed for years to detect that one of its top agents was spying for Moscow.

And after Capriati tried and failed for the second time to serve for the match at 5-4, Henin-Hardenne pushed the match into a tie breaker and jumped out to a 6-2 lead.

Relationships start, prosper, and fail for any number of reasons.

Neuronal activity, it would thus appear, simply flags and fails for want of adequate nourishment.

So many Americans go to Europe and fail, for many reasons.

In addiction, if someone goes to treatment and fails, for years we've just sent them back again and again and expected different results.

The suit targets "Apple's concealment of a material manufacturing defect that ultimately causes iPhone touchscreens to become unresponsive and fail for their essential purpose as smartphones".