Sentence examples for fail politically from inspiring English sources

George Osborne today claimed that the tax cuts expected to be announced by the government on Monday would fail politically and economically.

That leaves the manned space program at a precarious point, he said, adding: "If the current proposals to restart human exploration fail politically, indeed, the human space flight endeavor conducted under government auspices might well lose its momentum.

18 Bombings Fail Politically One aim of the bombings in Istanbul was to drive a wedge between the United States and Turkey.

Stars, whether from entertainment or sports, have all failed politically in a country where party politics is a lifetime profession.

Proposals to impose congestion fees have failed politically, and on-street parking is priced artificially low.

Every European summit in the past two years has not only failed politically, but also technically.

Their idea — to end tax breaks in exchange for extending and then reducing the Bush-era tax rates for the top 2 percent of taxpayers — fails mathematically, and it failed politically during the 2012 campaign.

It either fails politically, renounced by a wide consensus that includes a growing number of Democrats, or it succumbs to the financial complications (the insurance "death spiral") of the very amendments desperately tacked on to save it.

And Mr. Obama really, really doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of Bill Clinton, whose health care push failed politically partly because he moved too slowly: by the time his administration was ready to submit legislation, the economy was recovering from recession and the sense of urgency was fading.

Attempts to reform the program after Superstorm Sandy, and to raise flood premiums to their true risk levels, failed politically.

In short, Obama failed politically.