Sentence examples for ran a failed from inspiring English sources

In each, he asked about Mr. McCabe's wife, Jill, who ran a failed campaign as a Democrat for the Virginia State Senate.

It lies in the district where a young Bill Clinton once ran a failed campaign for Congress, and it is now represented by Asa Hutchinson, one of the House Republicans who presided over Mr. Clinton's impeachment.

Golisano, the Rochester billionaire who ran a failed campaign for governor of New York last year, bought the Sabres in March after the franchise fell into bankruptcy and the N.H.L. took control of the team last season.

And David Ratowitz, 41, who ran a failed bid for Congress here last fall, argued that Ron Paul, the congressman from Texas, is "the only one who is actually talking sense," adding, "and he's been saying the same thing for like 40 years so no one can say he waffles".

In the 2008 elections, when Mr Romney ran a failed bid for the Republican nomination, he invested $10m in Iowa, although he did not eventually win the state caucus.

(That's not entirely true. Fiorina ran a failed 2010 campaign for a California senate seat).

McKinsey recently invited George Shaheen, a former boss of Accenture who quit to run Webvan, a failed internet start-up, to address partners.

Henry Ford later purchased a piece of the Amazon as big as Delaware and Rhode Island combined to grow rubber trees and hired thousands of Brazilian workers to run Fordlandia, a failed Detroit-style processing plant and suburb in the middle of the Amazon.

At 6 19, two more CTs tripped on the third transformer and, as workmen struggled to get the terminal up and running, a CT failed on the fourth transformer.

An 11-yard Johnson pass to tight end Dave Moore put the ball at the 12, but two runs and a failed pass left the Bucs at the 6.

His mother and the man he thought was his father failed at running a grocery store, failed at raising chickens, and failed at keeping a boarding house.