Sentence examples for failed falling short from inspiring English sources

Only tonight, their last-second shots failed, falling short like their team's youthful hopes, yet again.

Likewise, the efforts to recall Hudak also failed, falling short of the 18,962 signatures needed.

He has sometimes failed and fallen short.

When they inevitably failed, or fell short of their promises and expectations, they'd just try again, inventing new methods of resistance in the process.

Many of the systems either failed or fell short of their promised impact due to mismanaged rollouts, lack of user training, or because of lack of fit to in-store needs — in part because store associates were not involved.

For individuals who assume responsibility for assignments or projects that prove less than successful, they could find themselves isolated to what I call "organizational purgatory". Organizational purgatory is a wasteland where experienced or up-and-coming leaders can find themselves if they are perceived as having failed or fallen short on a key project or assignment.

As much as the news media seeks to point out instances in which working people have failed or fallen short, time and again I have seen the good created by hardworking people.

Is each new cycle and the start of each new year mostly a matter of telling ourselves that we have not yet deserved the Kingdom of the Divine, that we have failed and fallen short and proven unworthy of God's Majestic Presence?

The amendment failed 54 to 46, falling short of the 60-vote threshold needed to break a filibuster.

The stakes are high: Bounce the merchants, and the company will fail, disappointing its investors, falling short of its profit promises, and putting its future in peril.

As the Asian allies are well aware, if the committee fails or falls short of its charge to cut deficits by $1.2 trillion over 10 years, in 2013 automatic cuts will take effect, fully half from military programs.