Sentence examples for and failed for a from inspiring English sources

By now, the postmortems are clear: Daley tried and failed for a long-term budget deal, then misjudged Boehner's ability to reach a grand bargain on the debt ceiling, a combo that left him staggering around shell shocked.

With friend lists and more, Facebook has tried and failed for a decade to find better ways to communicate with your besties.

At some point I called a fertility specialist, who refused to see me until I could say I had tried and failed for a year.

So my bowl and I remained in our floral wallpapered kitchen that evening as I tried and failed for an eternity to swallow the strange substance.

The surgeons' group, however, has tried and failed for more than a decade to set up such an independent registry, because, among other reasons, device manufacturers have balked at financing it.

Spotify: A company in the most volatile sector of the Web who has tried and failed for more than a year to enter the US market.

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

Police believed the retraction to be untrue and, having failed, for a second time, to tackle Ray's pressure on Sarah, arrested her for succumbing to it.

Ann Ffrancon, who was at the launch, said: "In our instance it's been a long struggle to try and get broadband to Blaenplwyf and we've failed for a number of reasons.

Last week, Gov. George E. Pataki and the Legislature failed for a second year to agree on measures to improve how the system is regulated.

The troika plan for the Greek economy has already failed twice, and it will fail for a third time if the economically illiterate plan being foisted on Athens is adopted.