Sentence examples for ordered failed to from inspiring English sources

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Now, however, Obama must own up to the fact that the changes he ordered failed to prevent a tragic, consequential error.

I'm thinking of the grumpy coat-check woman who took a look at the cargo several customers were toting and harrumphed, "More bags!" I'm thinking of the sommelier who, on a previous night, brought my friends and me a vintage of red Burgundy different from the one we had ordered, failed to point that out and, when we mentioned the discrepancy, shrugged it off, apologizing tersely and moving on.

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But orders failed to be executed, or in trader parlance, "print".

The judge who issued the order failed to set a hearing to argue its merits and had not given the man, Jack McClellan, 45, proper notice, prosecutors said.

The bottom four hitters in their order failed to deliver a single base runner in scoring position over the seven games.

The true injustice of the situation, Sick Boy notes, is that callous officials who specialize in keeping down the "lower orders" failed to convict the killer.

They've remained in the family home, used the courts to continually put financial and emotional pressure on women by contesting parenting orders, failed to provide financial support and routinely breached intervention orders, knowing the penalties are commonly not enforced.

Scores of you took advantage of its spring sale which offered a £100 credit on top of a 75% discount, but were left sitting on the floor when the orders failed to turn up.

It is a minor offence, but he gets four months in jail for it, because he has already breached three community orders, failed to comply with a drugs treatment and testing order, breached his bail conditions and ignored a conditional discharge.

England had chosen to field the same XI once more in the hope of significant improvement, but the manner in which the middle order failed to deliver at a time when they had been put in a position to bat Scotland right out of the game remains a cause for concern.

Gary Wilson hung around for 29 but again the lower order failed to offer any support to him or Kevin O'Brien as Wahab Riaz steamed in to clean up the tail and finish with figures of three for 54 from his 10 overs.

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