Sentence examples for failed to lower from inspiring English sources

Jones failed to lower the record in the semifinals but won his heat, edging Hall, 21.71 to 21.94.

Its conclusion shocked doctors: four years of treatment with estrogen and progestin pills failed to lower the risk of heart attacks in women who already had heart disease.

Thus began the third battle of the beefsteak between the government and butchers whose first inconclusive skirmishes have failed to lower ever-increasing beef prices despite price controls.

The rules limit national debt to 60 percent of G.D.P., and countries could be penalized if they failed to lower debt to this level fast enough.

Except for Samsung, South Korea's second-largest business conglomerate, and Lotte, a hotel, food and beverage group, the nation's largest conglomerates failed to lower their debt-to-equity ratios below 2-to-1.

The universal nature of the agreement was a radical departure from the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 agreement that drew sharp divisions between the obligations of wealthy and developing countries but ultimately failed to lower emissions.

If these fail to lower cholesterol levels, he said, then statins are a reasonable option.

The effort also fails to lower the state's overly generous campaign contribution limits, just as it misses a provision for public financing that opens the electoral process to candidates without their own money or backing by special interests.

Gov. George W. Bush sought to seize the offensive today on the issue of tax cuts, asserting that Vice President Al Gore's plan was so narrow and complicated that it would fail to lower taxes for many middle-class Americans.

A recent study in the Lancet found that highly restrictive laws of the type that Romney is proposing fail to lower the incidence of abortion.

Currently available antimicrobials fail to lower the mortality rate of melioidosis [ 12, 13].