Sentence examples for failed aim from inspiring English sources

Though stressing the exact cause of the failure was unknown, an executive at Orbital lamented the lack of more modern alternatives to its rocket engines, which were built in the late 1960s and early 1970s with the failed aim of putting Soviet cosmonauts on the moon.

If all else fails, aim a fan at your back and perform the best oral sex he's ever had.

These individuals violate sound ordinances, try to block patients from entering clinics, attempt to confuse patients by presenting themselves as medical professionals and, when all else fails, aim to frighten and demean patients and staff alike.

It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low.

His nerve failed, his aim was high and woeful and over the bar.

The fact that intact bugs managed to finely determine the location of thermal sources and that unilaterally antennectomized bugs failed to aim their proboscis in a biased manner suggests that proboscis sensors, if any exist, are not involved in mediating this task.

Since 2008, we've seen documentaries like "Inside Job" and films like "Too Big To Fail" aim squarely at the financial institutions and fire: In contemporary Wall Street cinema, any instance of materialistic indulgence is only a precursor to damnation.

Following a failed strike aimed at uprooting him from power, Mr. Chávez last year slashed the value of the bolívar to close a growing fiscal deficit and put in place strict exchange controls to stanch capital flight.

But during her news conference, Ms. Warren picked out different parts of Mr. Brown's record, including his vote against the Paycheck Fairness Act, which required that women and men be paid the same for the same work, and his co-sponsorship of the Blunt amendment, a failed measure aimed at allowing employers to deny health care coverage they found objectionable, including birth control.

Republicans in the Senate, notably Sen. Kelly Ayotte, have also repeatedly introduced failed legislation aimed at preventing Obama from transferring cleared detainees.

Failing this, aim for the designation S.F.U.