Sentence examples for figure failed from inspiring English sources

But the Commons public accounts committee said the figure failed to take account of the amount of time callers spent listening to automated announcements before entering the queue.

Although the center says the commissary makes about $200,000 a year in profit, Mr. Weitzman said the figure failed to include personnel costs, which he put at about $550,000.

The smaller figure failed to unite the opposing sides, and the final vote was executed according to party affiliation.

But even the enhanced figure failed to meet Wall Street’s expectations, and investors pushed the company’s stock down 5% to close at $52.50 in trading in New York.

This cartoonish, caricatured Idi Amin figure fails to recognise his insidious effect on the country.

He argues that this figure fails, however, to reflect the true state of the US labour market.

That figure fails to take account of Britain's rebate – negotiated, incidentally, by the Brexiteers' heroine, Margaret Thatcher – worth the best part of £100m each week.

Seattle boast the stingiest defense in the NFL this season, giving up an average of 274.5 yards per game, but even that figure fails to reflect how good they have been lately.

Even that figure fails to capture the churn of local incarceration: In a given year, city and county jails across the country admit between 11 million and 13 million people.

It damages all businesses when a high profile figure fails in his duty to treat employees, customers and shareholders fairly, and with dignity," said Simon Walker, its Director General.

But this figure fails to have this property precisely insofar as, and to the extent that, it falls short of the object in our mind.