Sentence examples for had failed to secure from inspiring English sources

Blair would have acted similarly in 1997 if Labour had failed to secure an overall majority.

It was an achievement that successive home secretaries had failed to secure.

Dewey and Taft finished atop the first ballot, but Dewey had failed to secure the 501 delegates necessary to win.

The retailer had failed to secure the emergency funding that it needed to pay wages and rent.

EchoStar had failed to secure a $5.5 billion line of credit that it had been seeking to bolster its offer.

Until last month (when it found Thomas Lubango Dyilo, a Congolese warlord, guilty) it had failed to secure a single conviction.

The Continental was to be a third major league, with franchises in New York and in seven cities that for years had failed to secure big league teams.

Aides to the mayor complained that Ms. Gillibrand and Mr. Schumer had failed to secure the kind of concessions won by senators from Louisiana and Nebraska.

Fears over the future of JJB Sports have intensified after the retailer said it had failed to secure the funds needed to overhaul its stores.

My schedule was complicated because I had failed to secure one of the scarce reservations at Brooks Lodge in the park.

She left the town saddled with millions of dollars in debt from the building of a new sports complex, and with legal fees, because she had failed to secure title to the land on which the complex was built.