Sentence examples for seat failed from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, there have been other contests where a seat failed to change hands, but the detailed result proved to be prescient.

The Conservatives' mission to "castrate the Labour party" by removing Ed Balls from his Morley and Outwood seat failed in 2010, with Balls hanging on to his seat with a margin of just over 1,000 votes.

But the Eastern European seat failed to get the two-thirds vote needed.

Hyde-Smith, appointed earlier this year to take over retiring Sen. Thad Cochran's seat, failed to capture the 50percentt of votes she needed to win outright on Election Day earlier this month, thanks to a third-party challenge from former Republican state Sen. Chris McDaniel.

Shock as a Scottish seat fails to go SNP.

The Silicon Valley company said it was recalling the Model Xs after the seats failed a strength test in the European Union.

Mr. Tsvangirai's prospects dimmed further on Friday when the opposition's court case to bar a recount of crucial parliamentary seats failed.

When the fraud first came to light, the Japanese regulator supervised inspections at Koito that showed that the company's seats failed impact tests and did not provide protection from head injuries.

But the success of the government's economic policies (inflation fell and growth was resumed) and the popularity of González enabled the socialists in the election of June 1986 to retain their majority (184 seats), whereas Fraga's conservative Popular Coalition (105 seats) failed to make any gains and fell apart.

Democrats sued to block the creation of the seat, but failed.

Nevertheless, while taking his window seat, Klose failed to smile or wave any greeting to the crowd.