Sentence examples for failed to outweigh from inspiring English sources

But his lineage (aristocratic and dissident) has failed to outweigh a wooden and vacuous manner.

But his aristocratic lineage and sterling record in the anti-communist opposition have failed to outweigh a wooden and vacuous manner, and a predilection for gaffes.

Department store chain Macy's also reported earnings, and weaker-than-expected sales failed to outweigh a tax settlement, allowing the company to top expectations.

By a vote of eight to four, the jury recommended a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole because it determined that the aggravating circumstances failed to outweigh the mitigating circumstances, including Mr. Woodward's traumatic and abusive childhood.

5 16 20–20 Promoting the health risks of smoking during pregnancy may thus fail to trigger quit attempts because the distal risks smokers perceive as uncertain fail to outweigh the proximal benefits they receive.

At trial, the bad outweighed the good, the defense failed to compel the jury, but all along the lawyers were introducing mitigation about their client to the judge.

On Sunday, U.S. District Court Judge James Robart rejected that motion, saying that they had failed to persuade that the phone book's free-speech claims outweighed the city's competing interests, which Robart identified as "privacy and waste reduction".

Its trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, has so far failed to persuade sceptical member states that the benefits of new export markets will outweigh the costs of allowing greater competition at home, especially in agriculture.

"There is broad, bipartisan agreement that the costs of incarceration have far outweighed the benefits, and that our country has largely failed to meet the goals of a well-functioning justice system". .

What is more, the judiciary made reference to the Runciman report (the Police Police Foundation, 2000) and that committee's conclusions that the therapeutic benefits an individual could derive from cannabis outweighed the risks to themselves or society, yet they failed to analyse the conclusions drawn.

The evidence that was presented in Buckley was found by the Supreme Court to be "at best... the testimony of several minor-party officials that one or two persons refused to make contributions because of the possibility of disclosure," and therefore failed to persuade the Supreme Court that "the substantial public interest... outweighs the harm generally alleged".