Sentence examples for failed to position from inspiring English sources

A rather optimistic 3D presentation for a film that offers more character-driven drama than Atlantic Ocean action spectacle failed to position the film as commercial blockbuster entertainment.

The firm tried automated keyword buying, but, Mr. Rosen said, found the computers failed to position the business and capture the market it wanted.

Last summer Jeff Robinov, the president of Warner Brothers, told The Wall Street Journal that "Superman Returns" "didn't quite work as a film in the way we wanted it to" and failed to "position the character the way he needed to be positioned".

From the outset, Kemp had failed to position himself as the primary alternative to Vice President Bush.

As the now risk-happy Jake Gyllenhaal continues to learn from the mistakes of 2010, a year in which now-forgotten flops Prince of Persia and Love & Other Drugs failed to position him as a boilerplate Hollywood hunk Ryan Gosling's willingness to push himself as a performer since his breakout year has disappeared.

Other phylogenies that included only a few α-cyanobacteria had often failed to position strain MIT9313 as monophyletic with other Prochlorococcus strains (e.g. [ 1, 31, 32]), even in multigene analyses of complete cyanobacterial genomes [ 31, 32].

Many people still think so because the company has failed to properly position itself – and its broader use cases – to the general public throughout the years.

In December, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission failed to apply position limits to these commodities, delaying rules that would crack down on speculators and aid consumers who are already seeing big price hikes at the pump.

A rebellious slate of candidates who this year upset the normally placid balloting for the Board of Overseers at Harvard has failed to secure positions on the board, which helps set strategy for the university.

"Some members of the London team failed to value positions properly and in good faith, minimised reported and projected losses, and hid from me important information regarding the true risks of the book," she added.

Maternal/zygotic baz mutants fail to properly position AJs prior to gastrulation resulting in severe disruption of epithelial structure and morphogenesis [19], [24], [54].