Sentence examples for had failed to start from inspiring English sources

The airline also revealed that in three instances, the main battery had failed to start normally and had had to be replaced, along with the charger.

On Wednesday, two judges in The Hague said the international court had jurisdiction in the case after Kenya had failed to start its own prosecutions.

But my biggest failure this summer has been those stunted little plants I bought at a farm stand because I had failed to start eggplant from seed.

There are surely reasons that some of us resist being wholly settled, but when the ballast of incompletion grew too much for me I logged on to TaskRabbit to finish what I had failed to start.

On the news pages was a horrifying report of a New York mom suing her daughter's preschool, arguing, in effect, that it had failed to start her child on the inexorable march to the Ivy League ("Suit Faults Test Prep at Preschool," March 15).

The agency said the firm had failed to start moving waste on Saturday.

Nordstrand, 32, joins on a free transfer after leaving Danish Superliga club AGF Aarhus, having failed to start a match this season.

America's leniency towards bankrupts encourages novices to start their own businesses and allows people who have failed to start again.The good news is that a growing number of countries are following America's lead.

Disarmament and identification, both prerequisites for planned elections, have failed to start so many times that no one assumes they will happen this time round; the date for elections has already been pushed back twice.

But how to do this in a place with few roads, rampant corruption and the constant threat of militia attacks?Mr Kabila has failed to start building a proper state or to demobilise all militias and create a proper army.

Iraq's apparently irreconcilable politicians have failed to start a process to elect new leaders, lurching the country ever closer to partition and defying desperate calls for unity from regional and global powers.