Sentence examples for questions failed from inspiring English sources

Senior partners of the KPMG accounting firm told a Senate panel on Tuesday that the firm no longer sells aggressive tax shelters, but their answers to questions failed to persuade Senator Carl Levin, who during three hours of questioning wondered aloud whether he would "ever get an honest answer" from the firm.

Family members, friends and neighbors of Mr. Stansbury described the shooting as an act of wanton recklessness by officers who had asked no questions, failed to identify themselves and fired without warning.

The press conference, which ended abruptly with the NTC president refusing to take questions, failed to explain how the general could have been ambushed in a highly guarded convoy.

In Chrétien de Troyes's poem Le Conte du Graal (12th century), Perceval's great adventure was a visit to the castle of the wounded Fisher King, where he saw a mysterious dish (or grail) but, having previously been scolded for asking too many questions, failed to ask the question that would have healed the Fisher King.

These three questions failed the data frequency assumptions necessary to run a chi-square test.

However, participants' answers to a large number of the challenge questions failed to match.

"When override ballot questions fail to pass, however, municipalities are left with budget shortfalls causing cuts in public services, school programs, public workers, and the like," the Fed study found.

The answers offered to these questions fail usually because they are too narrow or too wide.

And torture, as an answer to these questions, fails the moral calculation, utterly, miserably, "thanks-for-playing-we-have-some-lovely-parting-gifts-for-you".

We are concerned that this current use of data derived from traditional evaluation forms (i.e. mainly using scaled questions) fails to acknowledge the impact that student perceptions of evaluation may have on evaluation results.

A review of Citizens for Gulotta financial filings for the time period in question failed to reveal a listing of Officer Kempel's contribution.