Sentence examples for prospect of failing from inspiring English sources

After a lifetime of making mistakes so often it feels like my resting state, I've come to feel utterly undeterred by the prospect of failing.

Students have been told they risk the prospect of failing exams or being removed from courses if they do not vote for United Russia.

As a result of the filibuster, Congress faced the prospect of failing to pass a major Pentagon policy measure for the first time in nearly 50 years, tying up a pay raise for the military and other benefit improvements.

The prospect of failing to get a single point from home games against Israel and Bulgaria was unthinkable to a country which believed it had a world-class team.

Ukraine's advantage also leaves Didier Deschamps's men facing the prospect of failing to qualify for a major tournament for the first time since the 1994 World Cup.

Still, cast in the role of a good guy, fans quickly tired of his nonstop smiling attitude and began to chant, “Rocky sucks!” Faced with the prospect of failing, Johnson implored World Wrestling Entertainment head Vince McMahon to give him 30 seconds on live TV to respond to the fans.

In some countries, and at some universities, the defense is almost a formality, with few tough questions and no real prospect of failing--just a pleasant hour or two in front of an audience of friends and relatives.

In 2013, despondent at the prospect of Obama failing to release them, more than 100 detainees launched a hunger strike that became an international cause célèbre.

To walk away from the table at this point would be to condemn Iranians to the prospect of a failing economy permanently locked in the grip of an unyielding sanctions regime.

Many of those in favour of reform believe their best chance of forcing the Republican leader Mitch McConnell into allowing a vote on the Freedom Act is the prospect of him failing to pass anything and forcing the NSA to totally shutdown the controversial programme first revealed by Edward Snowden.

In the letter, published in the Guardian, 19 leading figures from groups including the Fabian Society, Compass, Policy Network and Progress express unease at the prospect of Miliband failing to secure a mandate for the kind of change they believe Britain needs.