Sentence examples similar to meet with abject failure from inspiring English sources

The idea to give "greater public accountability" over the country's 41 police forces met with abject voter apathy at the ballot box but the events in Rotherham over the past few weeks could change that.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg met abject failure with his attempt at congestion pricing in New York.

But for now, the president's attempt to foist alien values such as diligence on the nation's children has met with at least one abject failure.

This effort has met with dismal failure.

They met with failure, too.

Those who did, like Richard M. Nixon, often met with failure.

His attempts met with failure -- except the last.

Interestingly, these attempts have met with almost universal failure.

There does, however, appear to be a trend toward abject failure with cemented all-polyethylene acetabular component implants consistent with findings of increased radiolucencies more than 10years out.

Combined with the abject failure of secular rivals, this catapulted AK to single-party rule in 2002.

Now contrast this with the abject failure of Congress, which is essentially our national governing Board, to deal with even the most basic of problems.