Sentence examples for he failed to garner from inspiring English sources

And before that, he failed to garner enough support from his own caucus for "Plan B," Mr. Boehner's own bill to avert the fiscal crisis.

He was in the running to become the speaker of the City Council in 2017, but he failed to garner enough support, falling to Corey Johnson.

Mr. Golisano's past political efforts have had mixed success; he failed to garner more than 15percentt of the vote in any of his three races for governor.

Carl C. Icahn has cut short his effort to replace the board at Clorox, the activist investor disclosed in a securities filing on Friday, after he failed to garner enough support from other shareholders.

Even though General Khanh was able to gain control of the military junta, he failed to garner support from the civilian population when he implemented various laws which limited the freedoms of the South Vietnamese people.

Vodvarka, an Allegheny County man who had been mostly overlooked throughout the race, was formally removed from the ballot in mid-April 2010 after it was revealed he failed to garner the minimum amount of signatures for a nominating petition.

Dahlie, whose début novel won the PEN/Hemingway Award, makes an admirable effort to show us a modern-day Candide, but he fails to garner much sympathy for his wayward protagonist.

He also failed to garner much support from the West, where he was supposed to be strong due to his reputation as an Indian fighter and war hero.

The effort — which he called "Save Rocky's Home" — failed to garner a single donation.

He abandoned the bill when it failed to garner sufficient Whig supporters.

After the first song for the album, "Lightning Strikes", was recorded Brad Whitford departed the band and decided to form a duo with Derek St. Holmes, with whom he recorded a self-titled album that failed to garner much interest.