Sentence examples for green fails from inspiring English sources

By contrast, a judgment such as "The cup is green" fails to accord with the law of determinability, for the connection between the subject and the predicate remains merely problematic.

Mr. Poll's effort to take over the old Tavern on the Green failed after six months of turbulent negotiations with the same union.

But Slager's rushing touchdown with 6 07 left in the third quarter was enough to hold off Dartmouth (3-6, 2-4), as the Big Green failed a 2-point conversion attempt and Lavin missed a second extra point.

An attempt by police to block the protesters in at College Green failed with students continuing their march.

However, the men in green failed to score for the rest of the half and McCann got the first goal for St Mary's who quickly added points through Tomas Canavan (2), Aidan Forker, Brendan Hasson and Conor McMahon.

Talks with the Greens failed.

"Strategically, the mainstream greens failed throughout the 1990s by concentrating solely on the international political process.

A move atacked by Boris Johnson... Greening failed to vote in a critical parliamentary division about military action in Syria.

Some forest scientists trace the current outbreak to 1994, when provincial-government foresters, fearing the ire of greens, failed to eradicate a small infestation in a provincial park by cutting and burning.

A break-up might well become inevitable if the Greens failed to back the Social Democrats' Mr Rau in the Bundesversammlung, the federal convention that meets every five years to elect the president.The Greens had threatened to pull out of the coalition unless Mr Schröder offered them one of the two top jobs due to Germany in the new European Commission.

Related: Greens fail to add to single seat despite highest-ever share of vote The Greens secured their best-ever general election result – more than 1.1 million votes overall, just under 4% of the total and hugely up on the 285,000 seen in 2010.