Sentence examples for boom failed from inspiring English sources

In November auctions of spectrum to mobile-telephone firms, once the symbol of India's business boom, failed.

THE salesmanship that enabled Frank Quattrone to become the leading investment banker of the dotcom boom failed him when it mattered most, in his retrial for obstructing justice.

Spain entered the crisis with a low level of government debt, but when its bank-financed real estate boom failed, the banks were stubbornly slow in recognizing their losses.

George M. L. LaBranche IV, the chief executive, whose grandfather founded the firm during the 1920s stock boom, failed to counter a slump in revenue as John A. Thain, chief of NYSE Euronext, automated much of the work done by floor traders.

The projected boom failed to materialise, however, and HAT quickly entered bankruptcy, Leavitt selling the XR-1A to Frank Piasecki, another former Platt-LePage employee who had now started his own helicopter company.

A July report by the American Bird Conservancy noted that some cleanup efforts caused additional harm to birds and their habitats, that cleanup vessels were inadequate and operated in the wrong locations, and that floating booms failed to protect some important bird colonies.

From a technical standpoint, BP has botched nearly every aspect of the Gulf oil spill from malfunctioning equipment and lax operational protocols to undeployed booms, failed containment attempts and banned dispersants.

Heavy losses were reported to timber after they were swept away when log booms failed.

If the first two booms fail, O'Neal, the hulking center of the Los Angeles Lakers, goes to the third boom.

Warnings and Resistance Regulators now acknowledge that they saw the warning signs during the most recent boom, but failed to take aggressive action.

Of course, there are boomers who missed out on the property boom and failed to secure themselves a guaranteed final salary pension.