Sentence examples for but failed to exploit from inspiring English sources

France has distinct advantages in size and height but failed to exploit either until late in the second half.

He scored 5 points in eight minutes Thursday but failed to exploit a significant size advantage against Belmont's frontcourt.

Law and Justice tried hard, but failed, to exploit that during the campaign.And it is this which is probably the biggest lesson.

The cruel irony is that the key technology that makes all this web-based software as responsive as the traditional kind is AJAX ("asynchronous Javascript and XML"), which Microsoft invented in 1998 but failed to exploit.

There is a risk of a lock-in situation in innovation projects, where collaborations repeat positive progress in technology development but fail to exploit business opportunities.

Other economic systems have been innovative enough, but have failed to exploit their innovations or have had big firms but no incentives to innovate.The industrial structure that fosters productive innovation best is oligopoly, argues Mr Baumol.

2. Christie is estimated to weigh 350lb (24 stone), but his opponents have failed to exploit his obesity.

But the Italians ultimately failed to exploit Dortmund's fragility and will take only a one-goal advantage to Germany.

But as in 2002, he has failed to exploit a draw that seemed made for him to reach at least the quarter-finals.

There is less in the pitch than there had been at the start of the match, when the England bowlers failed to exploit it as well as they might, but given a clear run they would remain confident that they could settle things on the final day.

They were fortunate late on when Torres failed to exploit another opportunity, partly created by defensive neglect, but by then the man from Madrid seemed to be operating in his own, feverish world of huge expectation and negligible supply lines.