Sentence examples for long failed from inspiring English sources

UNWITTINGLY, North Korea has accomplished what Japan's own military hardliners long failed to achieve.

Bolivian diplomats have long failed to interest outside bodies in this dispute.

But the French and Algerian authorities have long failed to share that view.

It emerged that Guidant had long failed to notify doctors of the risks of one sort of defibrillator short-circuiting.

America has long failed to invest in pipes, since investors assumed that the country would continue to rely on imports.

Mexico has long failed to take full advantage of its many assets, including big energy reserves, a growing middle class and access to the American market.

Yet for all his deal-making efforts, Mr. Greifeld still has a black mark on his record: his year-and-a-half-long failed effort to take over the London Stock Exchange that began in 2006.

We are approaching the end game of this pointless decades-long failed experiment.

As a way of closing the chapter, I published the details of my three-year-long failed investigation in an Egyptian national newspaper.

The roots of the now large-scale drug pipeline into Russia began to take shape after the country's decade-long failed war with Afghanistan, which ended in 1989.

The background to these exercises, quite appropriately, was the expansive plain we were now standing on a brown landscape strewn with decaying tanks and equipment abandoned by the Soviets back in 1989 at the end of their decade-long failed invasion.