Sentence examples for and failed to determine from inspiring English sources

Yesterday staff performed necropsies on the stingrays and failed to determine a definite cause of death.

Owing to differences in the methodology used and in the clinical features of the patients enrolled, these studies have often provided controversial results and failed to determine whether neurophysiological findings correlate with patients' clinical features.

Relatively high detection rate in Table 1 indicates that the SWT direction determination method (in combination with upper SWT boundary) works well and fails to determine the correct SWT direction only in a few cases.

This week, after lawsuits and appeals failed to determine a winner, Mayor Mary Ann Holzkamp asked the state attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, for a ruling on whether the city should appoint the next council member or hold a special election.

It has left the regulatory bodies unfocused and ineffective, and it has failed to determine specific regulatory policy, he said.

The engineers also say that both the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Homeland Security "have been aware of these potential threats for years and have as yet failed to determine whether any action is needed to prevent or deter these events".

Alopecia in women is a common problem, and conflicting observational data have failed to determine whether an association exists between alopecia and iron deficiency in women.

The fire has been blamed on electrical faults and arson but an initial inquiry failed to determine the cause of the fire and no new findings were made when the case was reopened in 1987.

Oak Ridge and a nearby site, Y-12, have also failed to determine whether heating and lighting systems for buildings are operating as  intended, the audit said.

An 18-month investigation into the threat by the F.B.I., the police and federal prosecutors in Manhattan failed to determine the origin of the call, the identity of the caller or the validity of the threat, a law enforcement official said.

Classical methods of unidimensional or bidimensional mapping failed to determine precisely and unambiguously the solubility parameters of the polymer.