Sentence examples for have failed like from inspiring English sources

There have been stores that have failed, like Wunderkind.

A few of Mr. Wyly's ventures have failed, like Datran, a data transmission company that sought to challenge AT&T.

Some have been successful (like this one), but most have failed (like this one, or this one, or this one).

But his attempts to even get the negotiations started have failed Like other Western envoys, the deputy permanent American representative, Rosemary A. DiCarlo, used her speech Tuesday to encourage Syrians who protest peacefully to demand "their universal rights".

But they're virtually the only ones at that high level now: Takeshi Kitano seems to be a fading force; Hideo Nakata (Ringu; Dark Water) and Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge) have failed, like many Japanese directors before them, to break into Hollywood.

We have failed, like our Super Committee, before we have even begun.

But he said he had failed, "like many other farm leaders elsewhere".

This farm had failed like so many others because the economics of little mixed farms didn't function in a modern globalizing world.

A new bout of bloodletting would shatter South Sudan, which is currently seen as an extremely "fragile" state rather than one that has "failed" like Somalia.

I remembered something Salle had once made that had failed, like the W interview, and that he had destroyed in disgust, as he had destroyed his copy of the magazine.

Ms. Anders also candidly said that several of her recent films had failed, like "Sugar Town," about the music business in Los Angeles, and "Grace of My Heart," about the pop music world in the 1950's in New York.