Sentence examples for failed to sit from inspiring English sources

(29) — Were there any commercials at all? Bradshaw just failed to sit down on the one-yard-line, giving Brady fifty-seven seconds to score a touchdown.

But the controversy that erupted about "Munich" before it opened dissipated when audiences failed to sit through it in great numbers; in Israel, it received a yawn.

(29) —Were there any commercials at all? Bradshaw just failed to sit down on the one-yard-line, giving Brady fifty-seven seconds to score a touchdown.

BA says the passenger refused the offer of a supportive pillow and failed to sit in an "ergonomically suitable position".Gulliver sympathises with Mr Pattison, while wondering whether his case against BA is all that strong.

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Pennsylvania's former top judge violated the Constitution when he failed to sit out the case of a young man for whom he had recommended the death penalty back when he was district attorney.

Cameron's remarks today have given fresh life to the parlour game in which Tories ask which members of the 32-strong shadow cabinet will fail to sit round the curved cabinet table in No 10 after the election.

And that the unspeakable human costs that we have seen over the course of the last months and which could even grow if they fail to sit down are unacceptable to the global community," he said.

Everything that is in any way off - a pants crease that does not convince, a facial muscle that fails to sit quite right - interferes noisily with the illusion.

Dallis was asked not to figure out why a machine had failed but to sit and wait until he could directly observe its failure to wait for it to tell him what he needed to know.

But reports of corruption and mismanagement, along with thousands of tonnes of rice that failed to sell and sat rotting in silos, plunged the policy into problems, with reports circulating of bankrupted farmers killing themselves.

Her voice was affected, and when her condition failed to improve, she sat out eight performances, six of which were canceled (Ms. Mugleston went on for her on Tuesdayand Wednesday).