Sentence examples for failed except from inspiring English sources

Few states have completely failed, except perhaps for Somalia.

Every safety mechanism on the hydrogen bombs it was carrying failed, except a basic switch.

All those enterprises failed, except one — Ben Shemen, a "youth village" established by a doctor named Siegfried Lehmann.

Livingstone has never exactly failed, except at grammar school, where he got one low-grade A-level and was told to look for a job in a garage.

PAGE A17... on the Roads and Tracks In the New York region, just about every form of transportation failed except for ferries and feet.

This mix of "youth sacrifice" and relative economic security for the bulk of the population might be why street protests have failed — except in Greece — to translate into a big shift in votes for radical parties, according to Gilles Moëc, a Deutsche Bank economist.

All fail except Odysseus (in disguise), who celebrates by slaughtering his rivals.

All summer, a disastrous drought caused every crop to fail except for the new strains of cassava.

"In the same way we want the electrical system never to fail we should have the same expectation that the sewer system never fail except for acts of nature," Ms. Meyland added.

That's too pessimistic, but my hunch is that the latest rescue package will fail (except that it will buy time, perhaps its purpose) and that Greece eventually may leave the euro zone.

In contrast to artificial bonds between restorations and dentin, the DEJ rarely fails except when it is affected by inherited disorders.