Sentence examples for met with failure in from inspiring English sources

They more or less succeeded in bringing about regime changes in Africa -- Tunisia, Egypt and Libya -- and as yet have met with failure in Asia -- Bahrain, Syria and Saudi Arabia.

Mr. Obama had poured his heart and political capital into background checks and gun reform, yet his efforts were met with failure, in a coup against the will of the People orchestrated by the NRA and their lackeys in the Senate.

The first notable Russian expedition under Prince Aleksandr Bekovich-Cherkasski in 1717 met with failure; however, in 1869 a Russian military force landed on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea and founded the port of Krasnovodsk (now Turkmenbashi).

There have been more high-profile falls since, but successes too - silver medals at world and European level and pommel horse bronze  at the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo, where a heroic attempt to pull off the world's hardest routine met with failure only in the final seconds.

This year, it was as if that same driving had gone just one step too far, past the luck and precision that were on his side in the past, as he met with failure at each turn in 2011.

Efforts aimed at recombinant expression of functional striated muscle myosin isoforms in bacterial or insect cell culture have largely met with failure, although high level expression in muscle cell culture has recently been achieved at significant expense.

After a return of the territory to Courland through the 1660 Treaty of Oliwa, a number of attempts were made by the next Duke of Courland (Friedrich Casimir Kettler) at re-colonisation, but these met with failure, and he sold New Courland in 1689.

He wrote "Sheherazade" in 1898 and "Pavane Pour une Infante Defunte" the following year, yet from 1900 on his repeated attempts to win the Prix de Rome -- and a four-year residence at the Villa Medici in Rome -- met with failure.

Attempts to decrease the number of government workers in the early 1990s met with failure.

But despite virtual worlds' organizational potential, their workplace usage is still low, and a number of initial attempts by companies to establish a presence in virtual worlds met with failure.

A reporter's attempts to locate dissent in the ranks met with failure.