Sentence examples for back and failed to from inspiring English sources

Brendan Nash, having turned Rikki Clarke down to long leg, was looking for an unlikely second when he was sent back and failed to beat Ambrose's throw.

But the prime minister was humiliated Friday when soldiers fell back and failed to stop a Red Shirt invasion of an opposition television station, which had been taken off the air under the emergency decree.

Scottish ministers have already been forced to seek an extension from the European commission after its new £178m farming payments system had to be dramatically scaled back and failed to meet an EU deadline.

The Broncos (5-4) couldn't get a first down, had to punt the ball back, and failed to shut down Brady when it mattered most.

As Mr. Schilling scrambled for backing and failed to make his payroll for three consecutive weeks, Mr. Chafee publicly called the console game a "flop" and said 38 Studios was "just the worst investment that's ever been made, I think, in the history of Rhode Island".

They never turned it back on and failed to document the action or alert supervisors.

Dwain Chambers did not exactly come into the three-day meeting with great expectations on his shoulders, having missed the trials in Sheffield last month with a back problem and failed to get beyond the heats of the 60m in the British Athletics Grand Prix in Birmingham two weeks ago.

A Peterson-funded group called "The Can Kicks Back" tried and failed to popularize their deficit deceptions among Generations X and Y.

But it shows a lamentable grasp of the story's importance to place it so far back and fail to mention it at all on the front page.

And there was a lot to that, as a succession of center backs tried and failed to plug the gap, as the galaxy leaked goals and points into the summer.

Alonso backed off and failed to pass the German, while Hamilton did not slow down and succeeded in overtaking - but only by going beyond the edge of the track, which the rules say is forbidden.