Sentence examples for election has failed from inspiring English sources

The election has failed to reverse the regional divide.

Yet paradoxically, this momentous election has failed to engage the voters.

His victory in a widely boycotted election has failed to end the crisis.

Mr Schwarzenegger, who came to office via a special non-partisan election, has failed to convince a shrinking Republican Party to choose a successful moderate approach.

"No Republican candidate who has led by double digits in August of the Gallup Poll the year before the election has failed to win the nomination," he explained.

The government admitted today that its attempt to rush through plans for independent consortiums to take over ITV regional news provision before the general election has failed.

Tony Lloyd, head of the OSCE mission, said the election had "failed to give Belarus the new start it needed.

Cantor's first attempt at leadership after the election had failed, leaving Boehner hamstrung in his negotiations with Obama and the Senate.

In Rwanda, Uganda, Eritrea and Ethiopia in recent years, power has been grabbed by well-organised rebels who, despite the odd flawed election, have failed to shed their undemocratic ways.

But the pollsters insisted last night that, whatever the failings of their sampling methods in the last three general elections, there has never been a poll anywhere in the world in which one side in an election had failed to win with a lead of such magnitude.

President Fox, who cannot stand for re-election, has failed to deliver on promises to streamline the government, reduce unemployment and attract foreign investment in the state's energy companies.