Sentence examples for outright failed from inspiring English sources

Because the antidoping agency does not have an outright failed drug test on which to hang its argument that Armstrong had doped, testimony like Hincapie's will be crucial to its case.

Within the past few years, though, the majority of new attempts at the genre have fallen flat or outright failed.

In the latter camp were Bobby Hankinson of The Houston Chronicle, who called it "a disaster", and Rolling Stone Erica Futterman, who said it was "stale and unfunny" and "outright failed to keep up the momentum started by the season's first three episodes".

Ohio has also received an Obama administration waiver from parts of the No Child Left Behind law, which required that the state devise more detailed teacher evaluations and base personnel decisions on them -- something Iowa, the one state to have its waiver request rejected outright, failed to do.

It seems that the trackball is easily mucked up, which requires constant cleaning and sometimes just outright fails.

Many projects do not live up to their expectations or outright fail even before their technical completion in spite of careful feasibility analysis during their proposal or selection stages (El Emam and Koru 2008; Shore 2008).

From playful mishaps to outright fails, it's impossible not to laugh (a little at their expense) and subsequently reap the benefits of such outbursts.

Equitable said in December, after efforts to sell the business outright had failed, that it would close to new business and seek a buyer.

When outright lawbreaking failed, the state began to bet on black.

Labour might win the election outright or fail to overtake the Tories.

Unless a third party comes romping to the rescue, Alex Salmond will have no champion for a fallback position should outright independence fail to gain majority support.