Sentence examples for fails have been from inspiring English sources

Shareholders and junior bondholders (who are the first to be wiped out when a company fails) have been left with only the toxic assets, essentially the bank's exposure to the crumbling Espírito Santo empire and a troubled Angolan lender.

Several constrained estimation problems where the EKF approach fails have been reported in the literature.

He fails, having been caught by Mr. Krabs.

The handful that have failed have been a fraction of the size of IndyMac.

Most of the ones that have failed have been small firms, he said.

Mice for which bead inhalation failed have been excluded from the analysis.

More recently the epithet "failed" has been added to explain the Brexit/Trump voters.

Royal Bank of Scotland, which lost $841m as the CDO failed, has been working with the SEC for the past year.

Ten or so women who had gone to the Cheverly office — and whose medical abortions had failed — had been referred to the Germantown facility.

ELIMINATING the benefits reaped by institutions that are too politically powerful and interconnected to fail has been an elusive goal in the aftermath of the credit crisis.

Recently, in the tournament's mandatory drug-testing program, the number of boxers who failed has been fewer than eight-tenths of a per cent.