Sentence examples for means to fail from inspiring English sources

"I have never had a student this talented in a particular skill — not just talented, but one of the best in the country — and so disinterested in schoolwork, not understanding what it means to fail high school," Mr. Weiss said.

In a touching part of his post-mortem, moot opens up saying "Few in business will know the pain of what it means to fail as a venture-backed CEO.

To fall by the wayside means to fail to continue; give up.

"Sometimes it seems we're meant to fail," he said, more to himself than to me.

The uncharitable interpretation is that last week's action was meant to fail.

The program is meant to fail or succeed on its own dramatic merits -- or lack of them.

Powell's parody of a Scouting manual ("A Guide for Boys") is full of broad jokes meant to fail: "Nuts are always nice, / though they may need grinding".

The firm had just agreed to a $550 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over allegations that it knowingly sold its clients financial instruments meant to fail.

Society tends to write these incidents off as mistakes and moves on, but what does it really mean to fail when you have the power of life and death in your hands?

The firm's creation of Abacus, a mortgage security that was meant to fail but was sold to the firm's clients without disclosing that fact, was the subject of a $550 million regulatory settlement and Congressional hearings.

The Securities and Exchange Commission charges that at least one bank, Goldman Sachs, knowingly sold packages of subprime loans that were meant to fail so that a savvy investor could most profitably short a pool of them.