Sentence examples for and failing in a from inspiring English sources

Instead, he's off acting the reluctant puppet-master with Alana, attempting to entrap Dolarhyde over the phone and failing in a last-ditch effort to no longer need Will's services.

He made his Test debut in 1991, against the legendary West Indian pace attack, and after scoring 210 runs in five matches, and failing in a one-off Test against Sri Lanka, he was dropped.

Jack, meanwhile, is the saddest, trapped and failing in a life he never wanted, though we never know what it is he's sacrificed to follow what obviously is his father's dream.

After being driven off the field and failing in an attempt to regroup at Chester itself, the Royalists retreated as dusk fell.

"I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing -- and failing in front of a bunch of people -- and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks," he told The Hollywood Reporter.

Police officers detained two men on Tuesday night who tried to burn a campaign poster on a light post and, failing in that endeavor, set a trash can on fire.

But Penney has cleverly wrapped up this look at human motive, resourcefulness and failing in what is both a western (you should really call it a northern, but "western" conjures up that raw pioneer spirit) and a murder mystery.

Her brother, turning 16 and failing in school, was sleeping with a 28-year-old shelter resident, a mother of three.

These include securing a new safe house, buying something on the black market, and even failing in an attempt to assassinate someone, among other things.

"The summer before September 11th," he said, "I had been doing volunteer work in an AIDS hospice in South Africa and I realized our foreign policy was failing in a huge and dramatic way.

On August 2, 1943, a group of Jewish prisoner-workers rose in a planned revolt, killing some Ukrainian guards and one SS officer but generally failing in a confusion of mistiming and ill luck.