Sentence examples for failed effort from inspiring English sources

Another failed effort.

It spent nearly $4 billion on the earlier failed effort.

With each failed effort to contain the crisis, that moment seems closer.

Romm and Wilson read Seneca's posturing as a failed effort to get himself recalled to Rome.

The failed effort to stop the missiles bound for Yemen reflects the hurdles involved.

The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959, after a failed effort to gain independence from China.

Captain again at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, Socrates was conspicuous in another failed effort by Brazil.

It was a terrible match, but a high-quality penalty shootout at least; even Komano's failed effort was decent enough.

Last month, ChevronTexaco injected $1.5 billion into Dynegy as part of Dynegy's failed effort to buy Enron.

Renault grabbed Samsung's failed effort at expanding into car manufacturing.

In 1997, Israel acknowledged responsibility for a failed effort to kill the Hamas leader Khaled Meshal.