Sentence examples for colour fails from inspiring English sources

The problem of race in the US, said Wade, is that once a person of colour fails or is shown to be inadequate, it taints an entire race.

The minitubes were kept at room temperature and the colour change was evaluated within 3 min. Test result was considered strong positive if an alkaline reaction had developed (from yellow to dark pink within the tissue margin) in 1 min, and weak positive if in 3min, while negative if the colour failed to exhibit any colour variation within 3 min in the medium (yellow or light orange).

A state legislator there, who is also a pastor, tried to axe funding for an education programme which in his view paints the nation's past in dark colours and fails to take due account of...American exceptionalism.

(Many white Dutch use this just-so story to excuse the character's skin colour, though it fails to explain his curly hair and thick, bright-red lips).

Her confident use of colour and  geometric vibrant patterns never fails to attract  me.

But if centuries of colour-blindness have failed to better the lot of the black and the brown, it is unlikely that the same society will improve the plight of an even greater number of multi-coloured Brazilians.

Only Estidhkaar, owned by Sheikh Mohammed's brother Hamdan al-Maktoum, fumbled away a clean sweep for historic racing colours as he failed to justify favouritism behind Roger Varian's Belardo in the Dewhurst Stakes.

"We need to become a society where people prepare and plan for their social care costs as much as they prepare and plan for their pension," Hunt told MPs. "Sadly, this is an issue that governments of all colours have long failed to tackle.

However, this method does not address shadows and fails on surfaces that mix their own colours into the reflected highlights, such as metallic materials.

As for the patriotic colour scheme, it's a nice touch even if it fails to elevate it above our dirty minds.

Insects have good colour vision, with colour perception extending (as in ants and bees) into the ultraviolet, although it often fails to extend into the deep red.