Sentence examples for costly failed from inspiring English sources

Sterling may turn out to be worth every single one of the many pennies required for Liverpool to release the 20-year-old, and, equally, supposedly surer things than he have turned out to be very costly failed experiments.

Seeking to minimize the election-year fallout from a costly failed deal between the Connecticut state trash authority and the Enron Corporation, Gov. John G. Rowland announced today that he had appointed a panel to find a way to avoid a rate increase for trash collection that would cost many Connecticut households an extra $50 a year.

Either situation may reach a critical tipping point, resulting in an unnecessary and costly failed adoption.

Even before the financial disclosures precipitated a crisis, Enron's profits had suffered from falling energy prices and costly, failed investments in Internet networks and foreign energy projects.

In this case, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson has been one of the key voices criticizing our myopic drug policies and our costly, failed drug war.

It is estimated that L1-VLP vaccines, which require a fairly complex production system and are still quite costly, fail to cover 20 30% of HPV cervical cancers worldwide, especially in low-resource countries.

Those efforts proved costly and failed to reduce crime.

The Economist believes that cocaine's legalisation would be less costly than failed prohibition.

Critics of the agency had said it was costly and failed to deliver results, but Congress blocked the move.

Jokes about masturbation, ejaculation and noisy excreta follow, to the delight of no one in particular; in the US, this needlessly costly comedy failed to recoup its budget, despite the usually saleable combination of star names and crass lavatory humour.

A third option is to lease commercial office space in the neighborhood, which is less costly but fails to address future space needs significantly, Mr. Connor said.