Sentence examples for constitution has failed from inspiring English sources

Last month's poll in Iraq, blessed (or cursed) with a Westminster-style constitution, has failed to yield a coherent government.

In popular votes, the constitution has failed twice, in France and the Netherlands; and it has passed twice, in Spain and Luxembourg.

Quite simply, our London-centric constitution has failed to unlock the potential, unleash the enterprise, or even meet the needs and aspirations of, our northern regions.

That woman has had to reckon with how the constitution has failed to protect the women in her family – and so many other women, the statistics are devastating – from intimate partner violence.

Meanwhile, a government attempt to change the constitution has failed to gain enough parliamentary support.

Political reform, envisioned in a 1991 constitution, has failed to open the system to mass participation.

All previous attempts to amend the 1987 constitution have failed, thanks to strong resistance from the public, NGO activists, respected politicians such as Mrs Aquino and the Catholic church, to which the overwhelming majority of Filipinos belong.

The Constitution had failed to create a rule of law where slavery was concerned and had instead become a fragile political compact on that issue.

Efforts to have the ban written into the state constitution have failed so far, but could be revived in next year's legislative session.

According to some sources, one group of "ultras", comprising Syed Nasir Ismail, Musa Hitam, and Tengku Razaleigh, felt that the power-sharing Constitution had failed, and agreed that the country had to be "returned" to the Malays.

"The ruling underscores what I have argued for years: [that] the bulk collection of Americans' phone records conflicts with Americans' privacy rights under the US constitution and has failed to make us safer," said Udall, a Democrat.