Sentence examples for called failed from inspiring English sources

No one should forget that Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in 1942 because they were what would now be called "failed asylum-seekers".

Mr. Hicks also said the State Department's Accountability Review Board, as the inquiry was called, failed to hold high-level political appointees at the department responsible for inadequate security in Benghazi.

Instead the Democratic Opposition of Serbia, or D.O.S., as the coalition was called, failed to galvanize itself into an effective force for change, giving many voters the impression that valuable time had been squandered.

Mr. Romney and his running mate, Mr. Ryan, did offer a vision of sorts for replacing what they called failed policies of the present, but they declined to give the kind of details that would help voters evaluate what it would mean for them.

I remember being sort of annoyed when one of my best friends (one of the ones whom I had called) failed to "like" my engagement photo on Instagram.

Astronomers stumbled upon the strange world two years ago while using the Pan-STARRS 1 survey telescope to look for brown dwarfs, often called "failed stars".

Should Noor, as he asked to be called, fail to cooperate, a 14-year sentence will be imposed.

The large number of unsettled trades, which are called fails, stemmed from a shortage of the actively traded 2-year, 5-year and 10-year Treasury notes.

Troublesome includes invasive, capricious and demanding plants, and it ends with a coda -- the kind most gardening books need -- called "Failing the Test".

Brown dwarfs are what we could call failed stars, as they never manage to initiate nuclear reactions in their centres," Mr Gagne said.

Brown dwarfs—so-called failed stars that are too small to sustain the stable burning of hydrogen fall somewhere in between stars and planets when it comes to mass and temperature.