Sentence examples for before him failed from inspiring English sources

The rookie Ryan Newman succeeded where 34 drivers before him failed, posting a lap of 92.837 miles an hour in his Ford to knock Jeff Gordon off the pole for the Old Dominion 500 in Martinsville, Va., tomorrow.

Now 47, he is waging the most critical campaign of his career, trying to do what several other Democrats before him failed to: unseat Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato, the Republican who has represented New York in the United States Senate for 18 years.

A person familiar with the discussions said Mr. McConnell welcomed Mr. Trump being the Republicans' point man on immigration after the two presidents before him failed to come up with a plan and the party remained split on how to deal with the issue.

"Manny is going to try to do what 47 before him failed to do, but he won't be successful.

The court summarized Escalante's records thusly, "Simply put, the logs are insufficient to show that petitioner has satisfied the tests set forth in Section 467(c)(7)(B), and his testimony in that regard was, understandably, too generalized to otherwise do so". As a result, Escalante, like so many before him, failed to qualify as a real estate professional.

And Baker Mayfield has instilled hope in the Cleveland Browns, something more than two dozen Browns quarterbacks before him failed to do.

By sheeting home responsibility to the undeserving, Morrison (and others before him) fail to properly interrogate what might actually be going on.

A veritable productivity hole, adds a Morse consultant who – like so many before him – fails to capture that there's a difference between being productive and 'not wasting time'.

This last point -- that "schools are not businesses; they are a public good" -- is what President Barack Obama's Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, (like Margaret Spellings before him) fails to understand.

So how did Guetta succeed where so many before him had failed?

Unfortunately, though, Perry, like several black filmmakers before him, has failed to properly reflect his own world.