Sentence examples for failure to emulate from inspiring English sources

He even trained to be a lay preacher, and though he later rejected organized religion, he remained profoundly spiritual, at times suffering deep psychological distress over his failure to emulate the example of Jesus.

But a failure to emulate his predecessor Jupp Heynckes, who won a league, cup and Champions League treble in his final season, means Guardiola may not ultimately be revered for his three years in Bavaria.

Attention was lavished on their failure to emulate England the previous week and secure a bonus point from Fiji, but the point that mattered ahead of Saturday's meeting with the hosts at Twickenham was that for the first hour Australia showed more cohesion and organisation than any other major nation in their first outing this tournament.

Wales's failure to emulate their 2011 achievement, when they reached the semi-finals before losing to France by a point having played the final hour with 14 men, led to calls for Gatland to shake up a coaching team that had been in place for nearly eight years.

Although that is the furthest Chelsea have progressed in Europe's elite competition, the manager's failure to emulate his staggering achievement in winning the Champions League in 2004 while at his previous club, Porto, has undoubtedly contributed to the breakdown in his relationship with Abramovich.

Still he remained in a funk, his "greatest calamity" a failure to emulate the Ancients: "I had no Hopes of delivering my Opinions with such Elegance & Neatness, as to draw to me the Attention of the World, & I wou'd rather live & dye in Obscurity than produce them maim'd & imperfect".

Despite the failures to emulate last season's success, the club have remained realistic about its chances this season and has clearly established this season as nothing more than a transition between one great team and, hopefully, the next.

The development comes in the same week as thinktank IPPR published a new report arguing that the failure of other cities to emulate TfL's co-ordinated, city-wide approach to public transport provision had led to higher fares, poor bus services, and increased environmental impacts.

"It's very difficult for big companies to operate like smaller companies," he said, referring to the failures of large carriers to emulate Southwest Airlines.

But as I struggle to add this scene of my own, I can't help but worry that I'm going to emulate these novels' failures more than their many successes.

It is certainly true that many of the spaces that tried to emulate Paley Park were abysmal failures, because of either poor original designs or poor maintenance.