Sentence examples for and failed to maintain from inspiring English sources

One American administration after another has tried and failed to maintain order and restore democracy in Haiti.

In 1981 and 1982, we had tried and failed to maintain the viability of offense-based deterrence.

In the case of Capital One's auto-lending business, according to the S.E.C., the bank "materially understated" its loan loss expenses and "failed to maintain effective internal controls".

It said that Mr. Riley and Ms. Walker used the fees as "their personal kitty," flouted laws on nonprofit and charitable solicitation, and failed to maintain accurate records of revenue and expenses.

Additionally, TD Waterhouse did not adequately inform its customers of alternative order entry systems, and failed to maintain telephone systems that were strong enough to handle stock orders that could not be filled online, the exchange said.

It said that Mr. Riley and Ms. Walker used the fees as "their personal kitty," routinely flouted nonprofit and charitable solicitation laws and failed to maintain accurate records of revenue and expenses.

It tries (and fails) to maintain its district boundaries through sharp control of movement.

Advocates of privatisation will be content to watch as the now fragmented NHS struggles and fails to maintain coverage and quality.

Those distracted by their telephone keypads were likely to drift out of lane, steer erratically and fail to maintain a safe distance from the vehicles in front of them.

Sax and Rosen struggle and fail to maintain any coherence from scene to scene.

A strain defective for all three uptake systems (Kdp, Trk, and Kup) shows a decreased growth rate at low pH and low potassium concentrations and fails to maintain a near neutral cytoplasmic pH during growth at pH 5.9 with 100 mM K+; an addition of excess K+ restores pH homeostasis in the triple mutant [22].