Sentence examples for failed opportunity from inspiring English sources

The legislation, she said, was "a failed opportunity to help small-business owners with their No. 1 problem — skyrocketing health care costs".

After that failed opportunity, the Crew took the ball the other way and within five minutes had scored the decisive goal.

After a century of failed opportunity, a new political space has opened for creating a joined-up food policy, with the potential for input from a wide policy community.

Though the summit is being derided as a failed opportunity within the union, Eastern and Central European nations eager to join were heartened by the stated intention to accept qualified applicants by 2004.

The so-called beer summit of 2009, organized by the White House in the aftermath of the wrongful arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., outside his home in Cambridge was, according to Muhammad, a failed opportunity that underscored the President's unwillingness to deal with racism in America, or his handicap.

Still, too much silence can be a failed opportunity.

How do you convince voters to change administrations during good times? A. Because they realize there are failed opportunities.

Many times, good intentions are hurt by poor strategies and tactics, resulting in failed opportunities or lost margins.

Anecdotes emerged detailing a litany of failed opportunities by county government to address quality of care issues; use of the discomforting phrase "Killer King" reared its head, a moniker as chilling as it was oxymoronic.

[ 15] In addition, failures to obtain BCXs represent failed opportunities for guiding antimicrobial therapy.

He is given a very short deadline to raise the money, which he squandered on a failed business opportunity in Argentina.