Sentence examples for failed owing to from inspiring English sources

The initial landing attempt failed owing to sunlight interference that caused confusion in the infrared horizon sensors.

These efforts failed owing to provincialism among the racing entities, with each one insisting that its own events were preeminent.

Joel Klein, who as chancellor closed seventy-four schools, disputes the notion that institutions like Jamaica failed owing to a lack of resources.

The confederados, as they later became known, founded a handful of settlements, most of which failed owing to the combination of difficult soil, poor roads and biting ants that had disheartened many colonists before them.

Alas for Bogle, his mission, to encourage the opening of trade with not only Tibet but — the greater prize — China, failed, owing to the Qianlong Emperor's disdain for the "lonely remoteness" of England, "cut off from the world by intervening wastes of sea".

Cavalli all but invented the operatic aria, yet he used the device with telling economy; as Rosand observes, he reserved arioso writing for moments in which characters are essentially beside themselves, in which "self-control has failed owing to some kind of extraordinary pressure: fear of death, abandonment, or madness".

More troubling yet was "Stupid Girls" (co-written with a group that included Billy Mann — as sure a predictor of a Pink failure as any name in her credits), a song that tries to recapture the mission-statement feeling of "Missundaztood" but fails owing to a lack of generosity.

Superconducting wire characterization can fail owing to many reasons.

When faced with high controversy, the capability-design approach is likely to fail, owing to goal conflict.

The proposed approach is useful essentially to simulate ill-defined dynamic processes where the existing fundamental and empirical model fail owing to their lack of generality.

Systems with parts that vary in size from pico to macro inclusive are vulnerable of being incapacitated when a single part fails owing to deterioration of material properties.