Sentence examples for had once failed from inspiring English sources

But despite his criticism of Brand for never voting, Paxman confessed he too had once failed to vote in an election.

To seal this fairytale-like bargain, the couple travelled to French Guiana, to collect stones from the former prison of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, where the poet Jean Genet, much to his anguish, had once failed to be incarcerated.

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class.

What we're not so good at is second acts: few companies here ever grow old, or, having once failed, manage to come back.

One of the pieces, written from the perspective of a man who has once failed to gain the object of his affection, features the lyrics: While rejecting Cerna's conceptual approach, Lovinescu admired his style, for "the amplitude through which [the sentiment] is laid out in vast chimes and compact constructions of rhetorical stanzas".

But half-time arrived and United had, once again, failed to make a first-half breakthrough.

By the end of Mr. Aristide's two abortive terms, the Haitian revolution had once again failed.

That would be followed by powerful feelings of remorse and an overwhelming sense that I had once again failed to take my mother's instructions to heart.

However, Israeli officials said Arafat had once again failed to rein in suicide bombers and gunmen as he pledged to do in a 26 September ceasefire.

His victory over the faltering Scott also meant that the 54-hole leader of a major tournament had once again failed to win, something that has happened eight times in the last 11 majors.

In a statement on Thursday morning, the Spanish government said Puigdemont had ignored its calls to drop his independence plans and had once again failed to confirm whether independence had actually been declared.