Sentence examples for failed endeavours from inspiring English sources

There are books that are left unfinished but sit there as guilty reminders of failed endeavours; in my case a history of the Thirty Years War, which was so plodding and detailed that I gave up somewhere around the arrival of Gustavus Adolphus.

Failed endeavours of one kind or another dot the landscape – the burned hulk of the old Overlook Mountain hotel that never quite became the grand resort it was intended to be (rattlesnakes in the billiard table, among other things), or the partially abandoned Byrdcliffe Arts colony that drew the first generation of bohemians to the area in the 1900s.

After an attempt to purchase the 24-hour cable news network CNN failed, Murdoch endeavoured to create his own cable news channel.

Just because one British private-equity group failed in its endeavours is no good reason to claim that the whole country is hostile to foreign business.

Those endeavours failed to address many basic needs of small-scale resource-limited farmers in the tropics, such as the essential timber and non-timber products derived from trees, including food, fuel, fodder, building materials, medicine, and income, as well as the ecosystem sustainability that trees maintain.

Jay-Z lost millions in a failed luxury hotel endeavour, J Hotels.

"I worked for about three years trying to get my college cartoon syndicated, and I failed in that endeavour.

That he has now failed in his endeavour raises huge doubts about the Tories' ability to regain their lost votes from UKIP in the coming general election.

Still, though the entrepreneurial endeavour failed to survive, it raises interesting questions.

It failed in this endeavour, producing a political agreement in the form of the Copenhagen Accord.

If she failed in that endeavour, she at least prescribed a task for future work: to say whether it is indeed a prejudice or a decisive obstacle to the possibility of practical knowledge and the theory that intention involves belief.