Sentence examples for overwhelmingly failed from inspiring English sources

It has overwhelmingly failed.

As it happens, these doctrines have overwhelmingly failed in practice.

But ballot initiatives on gay rights have overwhelmingly failed, aided by national groups that have run campaigns against them.

In the American system, state and local officials, who have the primary responsibility in this area, have overwhelmingly failed to put in place the sort of system needed to bring eligible voters into the electorate.

Instead, they locked horns in a sophomoric battle of wits in which they tried - and overwhelmingly failed - to trip someone up with a question that put them in an awkward position, even if it meant focusing their questions on trivia or even scolding candidates for trying to put their answers in context.

This amendment overwhelmingly failed, with 42 Democrats and 22 Republicans voting against it.

The measure failed overwhelmingly.

Such was the case on Nov. 6 in Tucson, where a wide-ranging ballot measure that would have barred the city from using purified water in drinking water supplies failed overwhelmingly.

The bill failed overwhelmingly on a procedural motion, in part because it was bundled with another contentious but unrelated measure that would have allowed oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Both failed overwhelmingly.

The Episcopal Church passed it overwhelmingly, but the Lutherans failed by six votes to reach the majority needed for passage.