Sentence examples for failed tonight from inspiring English sources

The Palestinians failed tonight to muster enough votes in the United Nations Security Council to send an international protection force to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Billy Donovan, the coach of Florida, objected to the assertion that his fullcourt press, which helped the Gators win their first five games in the tournament, failed tonight and allowed Michigan State to get big leads.

But the $1.8 billion amendment, expected to be the first of a series of Democratic efforts to increase spending in the bill, failed tonight to garner the 60 votes that budget rules required for it to be considered.

BUENOS AIRES, March 29 (Reuters) — The attempted kid napping of two Soviet Embassy diplomats failed tonight when one of the diplomats fell out of the getaway car and the other was rescued when the car crashed during a police chase, the police reported.

Last-ditch efforts to revive broken peace talks between leftist rebels and the government of President Andrés Pastrana failed tonight, setting the stage for a possible army invasion of a huge rebel-held zone in southern Colombia and an escalation of a 37-year-old conflict.

The World Trade Organization failed tonight to break a yearlong deadlock over providing impoverished countries with access to life-saving medicine, but the United States pledged that until a deal was reached it would not take any country to court for breaking current trade rules by exporting cut-rate medicine to poor countries.

Kim failed last night, and it was devastating for the Diamondbacks.

(It failed this morning, for what may be the 34th time, but Republicans voted unanimously to support it).

Representative Rick A. Lazio failed last night to win the nomination of the Independence Party, the state wing of the Reform Party.

"An effort to continue the hybrid Arkansas Medicaid expansion another year failed (last night) in the state Senate," the AP reports from Little Rock.

The elderly royal couple, on a golden jubilee tour of Canada, were crossing the river in a water taxi when its engine failed last night.