Sentence examples for heading for failure from inspiring English sources

More important, the two Presidents reignited hopes that climate negotiations this month in Copenhagen, which had been heading for failure, might reach a meaningful compromise.

Congress was clear that it wanted the rescue package to make up the losses of healthy airlines that were thrown into crisis because of the attacks but not offer a new lease on life to carriers that were heading for failure on Sept. 10.

Newspapers in the Middle East express frustration with the Syrian peace talks in Geneva, which some fear are heading for failure.

When that effort was headed for failure, Republican leaders disparaged the bill on ideological grounds.

Some have even argued that it should not receive guaranteed loans because it was headed for failure before Sept. 11.

Bush, under the kind of questioning he rarely gets, admitted that in 2006, with violence soaring, he worried that the mission in Iraq might be headed for failure.

Anything but frequent and prolonged negotiating rounds (though some might be unpublicized or employ back channels) would indicate that the negotiations were headed for failure.

While the two agencies charged with monitoring the grid and warding off huge problems were discussing the loss of two power lines, there were, in fact, eight lines down, and others headed for failure.

But it's easy to forget that the man from Hope once appeared headed for failure, his name destined to join the likes of Pierce and Van Buren in the annals of forgettable one-term flops.

The coup attempt appeared headed for failure on Saturday as the military, the police and influential Fijian leaders lined up behind Mr. Chaudhry's elected government and the president, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.

Worrying that the super committee, which is scheduled to deliver their findings on reducing the deficit this week, is "headed for failure," Mr. Romney attacked Mr. Obama for not being a more active participant in the deliberations.