Sentence examples for failed venture from inspiring English sources

The failed venture hurt hundreds of people who had volunteered to go on the first trip.

He didn't want to be linked to a failed venture any more than she did.

And local partners can undermine joint ventures, as Danone discovered in an earlier failed venture with Wahaha, a beverage firm.

The loss was attributed mainly to write-downs connected to Concert, the failed venture with AT&T.

That year, he joined a Senate investigation into Bill and Hillary Clinton's real estate investments, named Whitewater after a failed venture they joined.

At a fund-raiser in the San Francisco area Wednesday night, Mr. Romney again talked about Solyndra, portraying the president as a failed venture capitalist who unsuccessfully tried to have government pick winners and losers.

Other failed ventures included a European lifestyle magazine called Passion and a ski lodge in Aspen, Colo.

The failed ventures exacted a toll in both lives (George Mallory died on the 1924 trip) and pride.

Hunt has insisted the success of Hotcourses came only after Elms and he had pursued a string of failed ventures.

The previous year, his father, a relief worker for the United Nations, had lost most of the family's savings in a series of failed ventures.

Meanwhile, Europeatweb, Mr Arnault's personal Internet fund, was one of the backers of the ill-fated boo.com, among other failed ventures.