Sentence examples for began failed by from inspiring English sources

He did not, as had been expected, go on to become chief whip; and, in 1999, when rehe form of the Lords began, failed by only 15 votes to be included among the 92 hereditary peers elected to continue in the interim half-reformed upper house.

During his later years, his health began to fail; by 1987 he began showing signs of dementia, and in 1989 he was declared incompetent by his lawyer and his daughter, Lisa.

One by one, Reddit's main competitors began to fail (by early 2011, delicious.com and Digg had both been sold for an Internet pittance) while link-sharing as a practice continued to grow.

At a special session yesterday, a motion to begin repealing the law failed by a 2-to-2 vote.

Or: "Supreme political artist as he was, he cannot have failed, by the beginning of 1939, to have glimpsed this destiny that would carry his country to heights no nation had ever occupied and himself to a position in American history rivaled, if at all, only by Washington and Lincoln".

After it failed by one vote in February 2016, a campaign to achieve the same goal by ballot measure began.

He failed by far.

The motion failed by one vote.

Mr. McGovern's amendment failed by 71 votes.

Each South failed by one trick.

How have you been failed by others?