Sentence examples for fail by a from inspiring English sources

South was now cut off from dummy's hearts and had to fail by a trick.

They knew it would be right to defend if all slams were due to fail by a trick or two.

At last, much too late, Lenz passed and this contract, also doubled, had to fail by a trick.

He was probably expecting to fail by a trick, and that was how the bidding sounded to all the players.

Mr. Vitter blocked Mr. Reid's proposal, calling it legislative trickery, only to then have his own amendment fail by a vote of 53 to 45.

However, these niggles fail by a lengthy catwalk to eclipse the huge amount of entertainment and challenge on offer in Fashion Forward.

The study presented clearly demonstrates that structural biology has to escort the entire lead optimization process not to fail by an initially observed binding orientation.

The effort failed by a vote of 247 to 182.

The effort failed by a single vote in committee.

South was forced to finesse, and failed by a trick.

He has failed by a wide, wide margin.