Sentence examples for failed measure from inspiring English sources

Last year, Mr. Lee bankrolled Proposition 19, a failed measure that would have legalized marijuana in California.

Ms. Snowe played down her vote against the so-called Blunt amendment, a failed measure co-sponsored by Mr. Brown that would have allowed employers to deny health care coverage they deemed objectionable, including contraception for female employees.

He intentionally allowed his most conservative members to sit in the driver's seat as they tried in vain to get the Senate to accept one failed measure after another — first to defund the health care law, then to delay it, then to chip away at it.

But during her news conference, Ms. Warren picked out different parts of Mr. Brown's record, including his vote against the Paycheck Fairness Act, which required that women and men be paid the same for the same work, and his co-sponsorship of the Blunt amendment, a failed measure aimed at allowing employers to deny health care coverage they found objectionable, including birth control.

Where the z precision criterion failed, measure a net of rows and columns with twice as fine resolution on those rectangles.

The adoption of measures will have to be universal in missions to planets and their moons because for an undesirable contamination to occur, one failed measure of protection may be enough.

But new research due to be published later this year by the ESSU, has found that in the last 15 years, more than a quarter (28%) have failed – measured by contract terminations, major reductions in scope, and significant operational problems.

The failed measures include levies on cigarettes, vehicle licenses, oil companies, phone calls and taxpayers with incomes over $400,000.

A particular form of bias is manifested in the way we measure – or fail to measure – aspects of people's lives.

For years, miners have said companies failed to measure dust accurately or doctored their samples.

He was the one that failed to measure up on this occasion.