Sentence examples for held failed from inspiring English sources

In ensuing years, she had such a significant role in shaping the Pataki administration's direction that the various titles she held failed to convey the extent of her power.

The government had held failed talks earlier with the far-right nationalists, hoping to make their march a state event, but far-right organizers refused the government demand that marchers carry only flags, no banners, Morawiecki said.

The facility, which mainly holds failed asylum seekers who have not committed a crime, has long had a troubled reputation.

They follow SXC Health Solutions' $4.4 billion merger with Catalyst Health Solutions GlaxoSmithKlinee's $2.59 billion unsolicited offer for Human Genome Sciences; the Roche Holding failed $6.2 billion takeover bid for Illumina; and Amylin Pharmaceuticals' nascent efforts to sell itself after rejecting a $3.5 billion overture from Bristol-Myers Squibb. Bristol-Myers Squibb

The law now would inflexibly hold that they have failed.

The Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission have failed to hold big wrongdoers to account.

In the past, Mr. Cuccinelli disclosed $13,000 in gifts from Mr. Williams and bought stock in his company, a holding he failed to disclose for a year.

When a product that appeared to hold promise fails, there come the post-mortems.

Descartes, Leibniz, and Berkeley all believed that, to put it in somewhat scholastic terms, the predicate 'x is in true motion' is a complete predicate in the sense that it holds or fails to hold for any given body.

So why, despite referenda being held, has it failed to break away?

The Pakistani authorities have largely failed to hold perpetrators to account.