Sentence examples for failed to upgrade from inspiring English sources

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Collins was the sensation of the Dolphins' training camp last season, but he was hampered by injuries and failed to upgrade Miami's feeble rushing attack.

Carriers failed to upgrade networks for faster Internet access in 2001 because of higher-than-expected costs for licenses and equipment, while phone makers did not understand the related technical challenges, IDC said, making it hard to predict growth.

But Moss is taking the place of another potential free agent addition who could be a better fit still, so if he doesn't pan out, then they have failed to upgrade a costly weakness from last year.

It is in everyone's interest to invest in modernisation, but the airlines are wary: several times in recent history they have bought expensive kit only to find they cannot use it because controllers have failed to upgrade their equipment to match.These sorts of ambitious projects to introduce new technology, with countless participants, are prone to cock-ups.

Writing a profile of him more than a decade ago, I regretted that his consistently impressive showing on record had "somehow failed to upgrade his day-to-day work" and speculated: "Perhaps sheer survival will push him into the spotlight he deserves to occupy".

According to Dixon – who has just published a book on the subject entitled Testing Times – the cause was a "lost decade", in which Wales failed to upgrade its teaching or introduce prescriptive strategies for teaching such as those seen in Scotland or England.

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"I think that if Abbas fails to upgrade Palestinian representation at the UN, that will be the end of him," said Abusader.

As standards and expectations from society and regulators continue to rise (see EU legislation on animal welfare), the companies that fail to upgrade their facilities could find themselves stranded by the high cost of conversion.

Mr. Hatch helped to stall similar legislation in the Senate last year after it had passed the House, but he has now pledged his support after stiffer penalties were included as a "stick" against states that fail to upgrade their databases.

"We think that there is a bigger bang per buck to be had [by allowing the ECO to pay for lofts and cavity walls]." Failing to upgrade loft and wall insulation would put a big hole in the nation's carbon budgets, noted Kennedy, meaning the government would have to buy offsets in the international market, which makes "no economic sense".

Demand for these devices has gone down as consumers fail to upgrade during the tough economic times.

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