Sentence examples for failed to break a from inspiring English sources

Democrats failed to break a partisan stalemate over those programs on Thursday night.

Yet here is a rare instance where Silicon Valley has failed to break a traditional media juggernaut.

Maruti Suzuki India continues to be embroiled in a crisis after the company and its agitating workers failed to break a deadlock on Monday (Indian Express).

Last week, the Senate failed to break a Republican filibuster of that measure, with only one Republican, Senator Susan Collins of Maine, voting to advance the bill.

Senate Republicans failed to break a filibuster that Democrats have used to block a vote on the confirmation of William Pryor Jr. to a federal appeals court.

The Senate failed to break a filibuster on a similar bill that banned soft-money donations but did not contain the issue advocacy provision.

Talks on new rules for hedge funds and private equity have so far failed to break an impasse over the treatment of offshore and foreign funds.

The United Nations Security Council held a high-level meeting on Monday, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Foreign Minister David Miliband of Britain, on the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe, but it failed to break an impasse that has lasted since July.

Prayuth said that talks facilitated by the army since Tuesday had failed to break an impasse between government and opposition leaders.

And, according to the ATP, this was the first time since a fourth-round loss at the 2002 U.S. Open — before he'd won a major trophy — that Federer failed to break an opponent's serve once in a Grand Slam match.

Mr. Gingrich, who has won only South Carolina and Georgia, faces being shut out of the delegate haul on Saturday if he fails to break a threshold of 25 percent of the vote.