Sentence examples for rules have failed from inspiring English sources

Previous recent efforts to overhaul the securities rules have failed.

Other rich countries, from Italy to Australia, also have too many unnecessary deductions.The second problem, which applies most to corporate income taxes, is that tax rules have failed to keep up with the reality of the 21st-century economy.

Attempts to abolish or even soften these rules have failed at every General Conference, the quadrennial meeting of the denomination, since they were first added, in 1972, to the Book of Discipline, which contains the Church's laws and doctrine.

Attempts to tighten the fund's conflict-of-interest rules have failed in recent years, and in some cases provoked clashes, as when the state controller, Kathleen Connell, sued Calpers to strike down a set of rules limiting ex officio trustees' ability to raise campaign money.

But the PM will come under pressure to bend his new rules, having failed to secure the predicted "Olympic bounce" in the polls.

Five years later, a review of the data suggested that, on average, the rules had failed to make our nation's teaching hospitals any safer.

The short-lived plunge raised awkward questions about whether trading rules had failed to keep up with markets that now handle orders in milliseconds.Weighing in at more than 100 pages, the report provides a thorough account of what happened that day, based on masses of data pulled from trading firms and exchanges.

A National Academy of Sciences review in 2002 found no sign that those rules had failed to protect public health, but recommended additional study.

You do not note how seven years of international rule have failed minorities.

For critics of Mr. Vicha and the coup, the eight months of military rule have failed to mend rifts in society, and may have worsened prospects for national reconciliation.

Centuries of colonial rule left behind a potent mix of Catholicism along with American-style fixation with celebrity, and a few generations of disappointing self-rule have failed to satisfy a persistent need for a saviour.Christian piety is not in much greater or lesser evidence in the Philippines than in many other countries.