Sentence examples for failed to win control from inspiring English sources

By the end of the night, Democrats had failed to win control of Congress, erasing Mr. Rangel's hope of becoming Ways and Means chairman.

Although Nixon was reelected by a landslide in 1972, Republicans made few gains in congressional, state, and local elections and failed to win control of Congress.

Gas Natural failed to win control of Iberdrola, another Spanish utility; Zimmer's attempt to break up an agreed merger between Centerpulse and Smith & Nephew is still pending.

See articleSocialists in the sunSpain's ruling People's Party failed to win control in elections in Andalusia, the country's biggest region, surprising many.

When an initial military coup failed to win control of the entire country, a bloody civil war ensued, fought with great ferocity on both sides.

Robert Menzies' Liberal-coalitionoalition swept to power in 1949, defeating Ben Chifley's government, but failed to win control of the Senate thanks to Labor winning all but three seats in 1946 under an old majoritarian electoral system.

Failing to win control of the English Channel, he ran south to Cádiz.

Aides said today that should Democrats fail to win control of the House, Mr. Gephardt was nearly certain to step down from his leadership post to devote all his energies on his second bid for president.

Even if the FN has failed to win overall control of a region – just as it had failed to win overall control of any smaller local départements earlier this year – its broad trajectory is on the up.

The party's final score in last month's local elections, however, in which it won a quarter of the national vote but failed to win outright control of a single local département, showed there is still a glass ceiling, a break on Marine Le Pen's quest to be seen as a normal party like any other.

It is the first time Pep Guardiola's team have failed to win under his control.