Sentence examples for failed to match up from inspiring English sources

But their son failed to match up to their ideals.

Little of her work from this time has survived, owing to her habit of destroying anything that failed to match up to the exacting vision of her maturity.

The company said its Sega Sports NFL 2K3 video game had failed to match up against competitors' products in the United States.

However, while a number of our cash equities businesses are performing well, the expansion into full service agency cash equities in Europe and Asia has failed to match up to our expectations.

Mr Austen, 54, a former airline pilot wishing to retrain as a lawyer, received £30,000 after alleging that his course failed to match up to the "inflated" claims made by the university.

This season's acquisitions have failed to match up to the contribution of the likes of Victor Wanyama and Gary Hooper, who moved to Southampton and Norwich respectively.

But even Oldham fails to match up to Co-operatives UK's criteria.

The use of split-screen to show how his expectations fail to match up with reality is a great touch.

So what happens when working conditions and modes of production fail to match up to a glorious, positive, right-on brand identity?

So the decision of Kraft Foods to launch a hostile bid for Cadbury on Monday November 9th that fails to match up to its original offer of a couple of months ago is unlikely to result in a happy union.

Now, even countries with a fairly healthy economy can run into serious fiscal problems if they have a dysfunctional political system that fails to match up spending commitments with resources: the U.S. comes to mind.