Sentence examples for course failing from inspiring English sources

Women clergy have been trying (and of course failing just like our brothers) to live up to the terrifying promises any priest or bishop makes at their ordination.

Leaving college and abandoning her media studies course; failing to get into drama school; the novel she started and set aside, unfinished; her short, unhappy experience as a film extra – she could go on and on.

As if to illustrate this inadequacy, the DWP responded to these figures by reaffirming their commitment to the current course, failing to acknowledge any link between food banks and welfare reform, and attributing this tenfold increase instead to the success of The Trust's own marketing efforts.

Of course, failing to find support for the starve-the-beast hypothesis is not the same as definitively refuting it.

For every memorable blockbuster, there's an infamous flub: The late embrace of MP3, losing its hold on the digital imaging market and of course, failing to attract adoption to Betamax, UMD, MemoryStick, and endless other formats and systems.

We realize all our junior G-men will eventually get to a finding, blaming everyone in sight but of course, failing to return those campaign contributions that not only put them in office, but comprise their retirement slush funds, but the answer is simple.

If your school has a high drop-out rate, few AP, IB or honors courses, failing kids and low ACT/SAT scores, your parents could be right.

Of course, failings in the child protection agencies, currently so in thrall to managerial imperatives, need to be addressed.

He applied to the course after failing A-levels and then completing a BTec.

Big on headlines, brash in demands, but short on long-term strategy, his course risks failing in Iran, North Korea, and beyond.

Well, to the bar, of course — but failing that, to the bookshelf, where any serious anyone turns for solace, advice, or simple good cheer.