Sentence examples for noble failed from inspiring English sources

But there are some gems, which are important documents of a noble, failed, social experiment.

In 2012, Barnes & Noble failed to sell the number of color tablets it had anticipated, a huge setback for the company.

The news comes a few months after Barnes & Noble failed to dismiss Spring Design's lawsuit.

The nobles failed in a sudden attack, and their armed party was burned to death by the populace in the church of Saint-Martin in 1312, an event known as Male Saint-Martin.

The authorities put up very little resistance to the revolt: the major nobles failed to organise defences, key fortifications fell easily to the rebels and the local militias were not mobilised.

A forest of talking heads and pointing fingers, "The Empire in Africa" is a noble but failed attempt to explicate the tragedy of the 11-year civil war in Sierra Leone.

For current seminary officials, the program was a noble but failed experiment because St Joseph's was ill-equipped to properly train deaf seminarians; advocates for the deaf, however, say the faculty and administration showed a lack of will.

Ted and Dougal's noble vigil failed – St Tibulus went on to be bigger than Jurassic Park – but their entreaties have since passed into the language on both sides of the Irish Sea.

My phone is me!" That is the change the noble lords failed to grasp in their debate on the web, because, like nearly every sitting MP, they do not understand that people, particularly young people, seek to merge the self with the great Cloud.

We abolished Prohibition after that "noble experiment" failed.

Richardson gave the song a score of seven out of ten in Pitchforks song review feature The Playlist, and wrote that while it could be criticized as "a noble but failed experiment, overly maudlin and sentimental even if it is surface-level pretty", the song's "simplicity and unsubtle affect, especially coming from this band, wind up being strengths".