Sentence examples for engaged in failed from inspiring English sources

Computer Sciences, a technology outsourcer that engaged in failed buyout talks last year, announced early Tuesday it would consider strategic options, including a possible sale of the company.

Representatives of the government engaged in failed peace talks with Eta during Zapatero's first term in office, for which he was loudly attacked on the campaign trail and in live TV debates by Mariano Rajoy, leader of the PP.

Ask yourself the simple question: Would you prefer a Congressman who won every debate he engaged in, but failed to pass constructive legislation, or one who knew how to compromise?

"Rather than engage in embarrassing failed foreign litigation with Autonomy," the filings say, Lane, Whitman and HP's finance director "resolved to try to quietly clean up the HP/Autonomy debacle internally".

Mr Major said the two agencies "engaged in turf wars, failed to share information and adopted a misguided approach to sources".Aside from shoddy intelligence work, the report concluded that there are still holes in Canadian airport security, an over-reliance on technology and too many ground crews who aren't searched.

The venerable Mr Volcker, an adviser to the Obama administration, said investment banks that were "heavily engaged" in such trading had failed during the financial meltdown.

He said: "All the forces in civil society that you would normally expect to be engaged in such a situation failed.

Schultz, like Shuster in the latter example, faced consequences only because he engaged in overt misogyny and failed to signal it covertly behind careful language.

If there is evidence that the foundation engaged in substantial lobbying and failed to disclose it, it could face fines and lose its tax-exempt status under state and federal laws.

Our biggest financial-services companies, some of which came to be seen as too big to fail, engaged in complex financial trading schemes that did not adequately price in the costs and risks of a market reversal.

Because you are increasingly less engaged in your career, you fail to pay attention to changes going on in the field--you fall behind the times and pay a price for this.