Sentence examples for shooting failed from inspiring English sources

Measured by that goal, the Argov shooting failed.

Again the players' defense was stout, but their shooting failed them.

But the president's big push for stricter gun control laws after the Sandy Hook shooting failed to get those 60 Senate votes necessary, after strong opposition from the NRA and other gun rights groups.

Efforts to market them as platforms for fishing and duck shooting failed, and they were commercially unsuccessful.

Wheldon scored again and Small Heath pressed hard, but their shooting failed to improve, and they were fortunate not to lose the game when a shot from William Lambie hit the crossbar.

The night-time shoots failed to kill enough badgers in the allotted time, which scientists warned could lead to escaping badgers spreading TB more widely and increasing it in cattle.

The errors began to creep in at the start of the second set, however, and Tipsarevic capitalised in the sixth game when a Djokovic drop shot failed to clear the net.

But in the wake of the nightclub shootings in Orlando, a small handful of them in the Senate are now showing greater willingness to compromise on the terror proposal than they did last December, when rival measures from the two parties to close the terror gap in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting both failed.

The striker opened his body to shoot but failed to get enough on the ball and miscued badly wide of the far post.

They had also left an explosive device at the scene of the shooting, which failed to detonate.

Harrington scored a game-high 26 points and Robinson added 20, but the Knicks struggled with their shooting and failed to reach 100 points for the first time in 27 games.