Sentence examples for should have failed from inspiring English sources

Its testing program in Massachusetts "was passing certain cars it should have failed and failing certain cars it should have passed," said Edmund J. Coletta, spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

East eventually doubled three clubs, which should have failed by one trick.

It was a speculative combination that should have failed, but Lenderman got away with it.

"In Beckett's great phrase," he says, "I should have failed better".

That should have failed by one trick, but the defense slipped and the contract succeeded.

"I knew that if you hadn't found him we should have failed.

It shouldn't have failed, but it did, and the timing couldn't have been worse.

And, should we have failed, we suggested we would have been happy with a payoff of less than half of the £2m that had been given to get rid of Steve McClaren, Capello's totally unsuccessful predecessor.

The CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, said on Monday that the part, provided by an external supplier he declined to name, was "not something that should ever have failed at this force level".

One system is "capitalism", the "American Way of Life"; it is in harmony with the rhythms of nature itself; but the other is something alien, something impure, something dishonest – and something that props up Wall Street banks when they should rightfully have failed.

Should it have failed to reach agreement on a new contract price with Baosteel, Rio could readily have switched to selling its ore on the Chinese spot market at a substantially higher price.