Sentence examples for endeavour failed from inspiring English sources

Still, though the entrepreneurial endeavour failed to survive, it raises interesting questions.

Those endeavours failed to address many basic needs of small-scale resource-limited farmers in the tropics, such as the essential timber and non-timber products derived from trees, including food, fuel, fodder, building materials, medicine, and income, as well as the ecosystem sustainability that trees maintain.

Carlton came out for the second half with renewed endeavour but failed to make the most of a period of dominance.

But the goal Wigan's endeavours deserved failed to materialise and they were indebted to Ramis for keeping the deficit at two when he atoned to a degree for his earlier failings by clearing a Fernando Torres effort off the line.

We endeavour to "fail forwards".

For a moment it looked like the whole endeavour would fail for the lack of rope.

Despite all the virtuous endeavour, they had failed to atone for their sins in the Stade Louis II.

There are books that are left unfinished but sit there as guilty reminders of failed endeavours; in my case a history of the Thirty Years War, which was so plodding and detailed that I gave up somewhere around the arrival of Gustavus Adolphus.

After an attempt to purchase the 24-hour cable news network CNN failed, Murdoch endeavoured to create his own cable news channel.

Jay-Z lost millions in a failed luxury hotel endeavour, J Hotels.

"I worked for about three years trying to get my college cartoon syndicated, and I failed in that endeavour.