Sentence examples for event failed from inspiring English sources

The event failed to break even, however, and consequently Gabriel reunited with former Genesis bandmates, both to pay off debts and to raise money for the cause.

Regine Cavagnoud of France, the world champion who has dominated the event, failed to crack the top two for the first time this season.

After last year's event failed to sell out, organisers decided to capitalise on a successful 2008 festival by putting tickets on sale eight months early, in October 2008.

Lo Shih-kai, 13, of Taiwan, the youngest player to start in a European Tour event, failed to make the cut after a second straight 73.

As such they are not necessarily committed to provisional positions that in the event failed to secure a settlement – though Erekat made clear to US officials in January 2010 that the same offers remained on the table.

Ertl, 27, the silver medalist in the 1998 Olympics in the combined event, failed to complete the second run in a World Cup giant slalom race in Semmering, Austria.

If the event fails to go ahead – and there is an obvious risk of it being scrubbed from the diary – it will be a bitter blow.

The ACLU points out that the reforms that President Barack Obama has discussed are "yet to be implemented, and in any event, fail to satisfy the requirements of Article 17 of the ICCPR.

The danger is that if that single event fails by even a little in its timing or impact, the effect of the whole will suffer, too, or misfire altogether.

This is a system that rewards quantity over quality, one in which a player can fail to win a Grand Slam event, fail to even reach a Grand Slam final, and still end up as the world's No. 1 player.

But by 7 p.m. the hoped-for turnout of hundreds at XS New York in Times Square, the "virtual reality theme park" rented out for the event, fails to materialize.