Sentence examples for failing to close from inspiring English sources

And Republicans attacked Democrats, who control both chambers, for failing to close a budget deal.

The grippers opened, trying but failing to close around the petal.

Gylfi Sigurdsson The Iceland international is on form despite his team failing to close out recent draws.

Ding had to dig in, with Higgins regularly building breaks, but often failing to close out frames.

Then, contending that Ms. Calderone had defaulted on the purchase agreement by failing to close on time, Pulte kept her $20,000 deposit.

After failing to close out the Open championship at Muirfield from a winning position last month, Westwood told us he was no longer disappointed by golf.

Soriano had gone 0 for 4 against Lowe in Game 2, failing to come close to some pitches and showing a vulnerability to breaking balls all series.

This time around, Flipside is setting its sights on a more realistic funding goal of $40,000, after failing to come close to its $135,000 goal and cancelling the Kickstarter project early last time.

A retired Air Force officer, Mr. Crowley, 59, had a rocky tenure at the State Department, failing to establish close ties to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Instead, they were ruthlessly brushed aside by a rampant Australia side, failing to get close to victory in any of the five matches as pace bowler Mitchell Johnson's express speed and Brad Haddin's never-say-die batting, exposed their limitations.

He said the Senate was shirking its duty by failing to give closer review to the hundreds of bills that slide through by unanimous consent.