Sentence examples for had failed badly from inspiring English sources
No great stir was made until, later that year, they revived Anton Chekhov's Chayka (1896; The Seagull), which had failed badly in its incompetent first production in St . Petersburg
Feminists had long been agitating for suffrage rights, but three attempts at constitutional amendments had failed badly.
It ensured that they had further exposure in television and gained attention from Jane Root, controller of BBC Two, who took a risk and signed them up after their book venture and their internet business had failed badly.
But when she has failed, she has failed badly.
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The defences have failed badly at all three of the reactors which were running at the time the earthquake hit.
Perversely given their dismal performance on Thursday, the Lib Dems have the best overall rate of 36.6%, the Tories barely changed at 24.3%, while the Scottish Green party's positive action strategy (to get at least 40% women elected) has failed badly: while more Greens were elected, its rate is now 28.6%, down from 50% in 2007.
Particularly irksome is the suspicion that, as far as spy agencies are concerned, the N.S.A. just isn't very good: Bamford said it has "failed badly" in preventing attacks since the Cold War, missing everything from the first World Trade Center attack in 1993 to the recent Boston Marathon bombing.
Yet we have failed badly so far to face up to either the urgency or magnitude of this crisis.
Fast forward 20 years later, I signed up to be a fitness instructor on a cruise ship in 2008, after having failed badly in a high risk investment, so I could pay off debts without having any living expenses.
This remarkably persistent way of thinking, common to most religions and some branches of philosophy, has failed badly in past efforts to understand and thereby predict the operations of the universe and our place within in".
