Sentence examples for but always failed from inspiring English sources

It's a scenario that might just have been acceptable in the pages of 2000 AD but always failed to pass the logic test on the big screen.

I hated the idea that there were books I couldn't read - like secrets I couldn't be told - so I tried repeatedly, but always failed to get very far.

I'd tried to quit several times but always failed because I just couldn't cope with the idea of suffering and loss stretching as far into the future as I could imagine.

Caliphs through the centuries tried to unify the faith, forcibly and otherwise, but always failed.

The 4PCS algorithm sometimes worked successfully in the first four tested scan pairs (S r = 30-90%), but always failed in G k ( S r = 0 % ).

Right from the beginning until modern times, attempts were made to exactly fix the value of π, but always failed, although hundreds constructed circle squares and claimed the success.

Various attempts have been made to get such talks going but have always failed.

It has been nearly financed several times over the past two years but has always failed the last fence.

The music industry has tried numerous times over the years to change this situation — Frank Sinatra was a leading advocate — but has always failed.

On Wednesday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, issued a veiled warning to workers not to allow themselves to be politicized, saying "the enemy has tried to use the workers as a leverage against the Islamic regime" in the past, but had always failed, according to the semiofficial ILNA news agency.

There have been frequent third-party movements in the history of the country, but they have always failed.