Sentence examples for failure to strike from inspiring English sources

Oil prices tumbled amid the failure to strike a deal.

His defeat was in part caused by his failure to strike other notes when necessary.

The failure to strike a deal on the supply routes ahead of the summit injects new tension into the relationship.

What also makes it quintessentially – perhaps calamitously – Clintonesque, however, is its failure to strike any kind of emotional chord.

Obama's failure to strike while the iron was hot offers a lesson in presidential leadership that goes beyond gun control.

A European ambassador, speaking not for attribution, said failure to strike a deal would spell the end of Turkey's hopes "for a long time".

The EU and the US, which played a crucial but behind the scenes role in securing the deal will also doubtless make funds available.Failure to strike deal could have had dire consequences for Serbia, Kosovo and the rest of the region.

But it is also true that the forest fire would not have occurred if any of a vast number of contingencies, including the camper's birth and his failure to be struck down by a meteor before striking the match, had not occurred.

Many suffered a grievous blow to their self-esteem — a lost job, a divorce or a school failure — and decided to strike back in some showy way.

The failure of negotiators to strike a spending deal means last week's short-term extension will expire before a vote can be taken.

WASHINGTON -- The failure of Congress to strike a budget deal Monday night to avert a government shutdown means House and Senate lawmakers will have to pass another short-term continuing resolution -- even though they approved one last week.