Sentence examples for failed setting from inspiring English sources

Inside, the ship's engines had failed — setting the vessel adrift in Hustadvika Bay and toward the rocky shoreline.

Twelve insurance companies went bankrupt, and, after a gold shortage and a doomed scheme to corner the copper market, the Knickerbocker, the second-largest trust in New York, failed, setting off the Panic of 1907.

A federal judge declared yesterday that a last-ditch effort to resolve a long-simmering land claim dispute between the Oneida Indians and New York State had failed, setting the stage for years of additional litigation and percolating tensions in central New York.

WASHINGTON — Leaders of the Congressional committee charged with finding at least $1.2 trillion in deficit reductions conceded on Monday that panel members had failed, setting up what is likely to be a yearlong political fight over the automatic cuts to a broad range of military and domestic programs that would go into effect starting in 2013 as a result of their inability to reach a deal.

Twenty-eight of those embryos were successful, but 26 — nearly half of them — failed, setting off a heated debate throughout the scientific community on the ethics of altering human genes.

— failed, setting up a showdown over the so-called "skinny" repeal bill, which would remove key parts of Obamacare, including the individual mandate.

Rather than going "all or nothing" and quitting when that fails, set gradual steps and goals.

When all else fails, set up a recording device and record it manually.

No wonder we are seeing as an extremely shallow government as a consequence of failed policy setting.

Power-hungry chiefs failed to set up solid succession plans.

The failed play set up the final series for Rutgers.