Sentence examples for support fail from inspiring English sources

Four in five start-ups that seek support fail to raise enough interest, demonstrating that Crowdcube's users are discerning with their money.Both platforms are regulated by the Financial Services Authority, ensuring that investors' cash does not disappear.

As US under-secretary of state Robert Olds wrote in 1927: "We do control the destinies of Central America and we do so for the simple reason that the national interest absolutely dictates such a course … governments which we recognise and support stay in power, while those we do not recognise and support fail".

These patients do not always call ambulances because of emergencies or accidents, but rather because their daily networks of support fail to function, and they face unplanned not necessarily unforeseen deterioration in their health status, and thus ambulance services and emergency departments become the only option.

The value of such a power has been questioned by noting that in the national legislatures of the member states 85% of initiatives introduced without executive support fail to become law.

This attitude explains why the American effort to resume Israeli-Palestinian talks, despite ostensible majority support, fails to interest Israelis.

Having been forced, teeth gritted, to support failed bankers in lavish retirement, taxpayers are rightly outraged by the discovery that MPs too have their noses in the trough.

On July 5, he defeated a British force under Gen. Phineas Riall at the Battle of Chippewa, but expected naval support failed to appear and the British brought up reserves.

The opposition New Democracy (ND) party, damaged by its lies about Greece's parlous finances when it was in government, has declined calls by the EU and IMF to support "failed" reforms (though it supports privatisation).

The initiative had been designed to save part of the Yasuni national park in the Amazon from oil firms, but it was dropped after international support failed to meet the revenue goals of the government.

According to the Newhouse News Service, "U.S. troops in Iraq suffered through months of unnecessarily poor living conditions because some civilian contractors hired by the Army for logistics support failed to show up".

The 1980's and early 1990's were a tough time to be a college president, as federal and state support failed to keep up with soaring higher education costs.