Sentence examples for be seen to fail from inspiring English sources

Russian workers don't like to be seen to fail.

As Gore Vidal said, it's not enough to succeed; others must be seen to fail.

"Perhaps Great Ormond Street is just too important to be seen to fail.

Fenton himself sums up the method as "it's not enough to succeed; somebody else must be seen to fail".

New movements and new ideologies can be expected to appear, either because capitalism will be seen to fail economically, or because it cannot appeal to idealism.

Warner's go-it-alone strategy would have to be seen to fail; Fox's shares would have to outperform; and the market would have to be happy to endorse Fox's unfair voting arrangements with James or Lachlan at the helm.

You're afraid of being seen to fail.

Or, rather, artists embraced both extremes, communism and fascism, as western democracy was seen to fail.

GTR has been seen to fail on delivering an efficient and reliable service to passengers on Southern".

Here too, Brown has expressed determination to succeed where Blair was seen to fail, backing a move to a largely elected house.

Yet Ms Merkel knows that crisis management is ultimately her responsibility; if it is seen to fail she is likely to as well.In some ways, her task is more difficult than Mr Obama's or Mr Sarkozy's.