Sentence examples for gong failed from inspiring English sources

Keira Knightley, who didn't win the best actress gong, "failed to impress fashion fans", declares the Sun.

Despite Party efforts, initial charges leveled against Falun Gong failed to elicit widespread popular support for the suppression of the group.

Although the suppression of Falun Gong has drawn considerable condemnation outside China, some observers note that Falun Gong has failed to attract the level of sympathy and sustained attention afforded to other Chinese dissident groups.

Nonetheless, some observers have noted that Falun Gong has failed to attract the level of sympathy and sustained international attention afforded to Tibetans, Chinese Christians or democracy activists.

In an analogous manner, N-terminal truncated mutants of CCL2 and CXCL8 effectively bound but failed to activate their receptors (Gong & Clark-Lewis, 1995; Moser et al, 1993).

Muse and Kasabian were the kings of the Shockwaves NME Awards, but Oasis failed to pick up a single gong despite receiving three nominations.

Wade, who was herself shortlisted for journalist of the year, might have been haunted by last year's awards, where the Sun failed to pick up a single gong.

The last and only silent film to scoop the Best Picture gong was Wings in 1927-28; even Charlie Chaplin's masterpiece City Lights failed to make the critical cut, proving that silence isn't always golden.

Mad Men stormed out of the gates, taking the Emmy for outstanding drama series in each of its first four seasons, amid several other prizes, but has failed to convert any of its nominations into gongs in the past three years.

Following the described strategy (Gong and Golic, 2003), we isolated several independent targeting events that all failed to complement the lethality of Sce.

The argument that "the healthcare system reform basically failed" aroused public opinion and led to a heated debate (Ge and Gong 2007).