Sentence examples for failed for getting from inspiring English sources

"There's a sense of me that says I failed for getting shot," he said.

Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA Royal Bank of Scotland's chief executive has admitted that the bank has failed "for decades" to get its computer systems right, as he apologised for the collapse of its debit card system yesterday.

She moved Long Beach away from what is commonly called the "waiting to fail" model, which assesses children only after they have failed for several years, instead getting tutoring and other intensive help to them in the earliest grades.

Salt Lake City had tried and failed for 30 years to get the Winter Olympics as part of a broad economic development plan to build a winter tourism industry.

A crackdown in the 1980's pushed traffickers to what they saw as a virtually fail-safe system for getting back their profits -- the black-market peso exchange.

This is why nobody is suggesting the real Bold Proposals, and instead we're arguing about what to do now that John Boehner's pointless "Plan B" (more taxes for millionaires, chained CPI for seniors) failed to get the Republican support necessary for Obama to have to veto it.

And, families with the greatest risk for failed relationships get the greatest benefit from participating in these retreats.

Since some women were not available for interview, and we failed to get replacements for them, the final sample size was 457 women.

The estimated sample size was 476, but since 19 women were not available for interview, and we failed to get replacements for them, the final sample size was 457 women.

"By not making maximising the auction's revenues an objective for Ofcom, the government has failed to get value for money on this project," Goodman complained to Morse.

An Ulster Unionist councillor has failed to get support for his suggestion for what the new Derry and Strabane super council should be called.