Sentence examples for challenges failed from inspiring English sources

"All of those challenges failed," she said.

His appeal was rejected by the supreme court in 2005, and final judicial challenges failed in 2009 and 2011.

That these goal attempts were just about all that roused either goalkeeper on an unexpectedly mild night in the south of Glasgow says it all about a game which, while littered with provoking challenges, failed to ignite.

The inevitable court challenges failed because judges ruled that voters had to be given a choice in every election; substitutions had to be allowed if democracy was to be served.

Alston struggled to keep hold of the ball but a series of poor challenges failed to rob him of possession.

Cristiano's try reduced Glasgow's lead to 14-10 but half-hearted challenges failed to prevent Horne sprinting clear and laying the ball off for Murchie to touch down.

Equality California, a major gay rights group here, indicated this week that it would work to repeal Proposition 8 if legal challenges fail.

But rule-making agencies are less likely to vocally oppose it, in part because they are responsible for carrying it out if the legal and political challenges fail.

Another would be to impose on condemned prisoners such a high burden of proof that their challenges fail and executions can proceed as usual.

To date, only gemcitabine plus cisplatin has been accepted for first-line therapy for unresectable biliary tract cancer [3], and the subsequent challenges fail to establish the next promising therapeutic agent [11, 12].

Often challenges fail to make sufficiently clear their object of critique, using "identity politics" as a blanket description that invokes a range of tacit political failings (as discussed in Bickford 1997).