Sentence examples for figures have failed from inspiring English sources

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Despite repeated attempts, those groups, which include many exiled figures, have failed to agree on a common approach to ending Mr. Assad's rule, or to gain credibility, especially with Syrians inside the country.

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Mr Binley questioned whether the City figures had "failed the taxpayer" by not setting a higher price.

(Since the Second World War, no President with an approval rating at or above that figure has failed to be reëlected).

The numbers hadn't been good before, but this was the first time in ten months that the payrolls figure had failed to be positive.

These are buried in the Methods, which is fine, but if the authors were hoping to convey some information through this figure they have failed.

"And there is still no guarantee that today's plan will get credit flowing in the economy, as we have endlessly been promised and which the latest figures show they have failed to deliver.

Since the book was announced more than a year ago, Mr. Paterno has gone from revered head coach of Penn State football to a vilified figure found to have failed to report to the police the accusations of child sexual abuse against his longtime assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky.

If either satellite information or reliable human intelligence sources had reported that Iraq had gone on high alert before 9/11, it's hard to imagine that Pentagon figures like Paul Wolfowitz would have failed to mention it.

Separate figures have reflected how wages have failed to keep up with the cost of buying a home in England.

These "clicks and bricks" alliances give established companies, many of which have failed to figure out the Internet, an immediate entry to the online world, and they give dot-com ventures a scale that might otherwise take decades to build.

Since the Internet exploded, the entertainment industry's best and brightest -- including the super agent Mike Ovitz and the directors Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard -- have failed to figure out how to exploit its promise.

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