Sentence examples for supposedly failed from inspiring English sources

The Japanese supposedly failed to do the right things.

Now there is ominous talk of an "Islamist Fall" and "Salafi Winter" after a supposedly failed Arab Spring.

That so many have supposedly failed to weather the test of time is a frequently recurring theme in articles and blogs debating the forthcoming Best of Booker shortlist.

Romney went through a de rigueur list of the ways Obama — in Israel he's often called Barack Hussein Obama — has supposedly failed the Jewish state: public criticism of it, "usurping" Israel's role as primary peace negotiator, alluding to the 1967 borders as a basis for peace when "they are indefensible".

He may try a run to Guatemala, where he was arrested for the first time in 1993, or just return to where the "biggest manhunt in history" supposedly failed to find him for 13 years, right where he would obviously be, at home in his villa.

Later, the CIA and Britain's MI-6 supposedly failed trying to secure a sample from Mikhail Gorbachev.

In the deadly collision, a paused train on the track went undetected by the supposedly fail-safe control system, and a moving train plowed into it at a high speed.

But there is no dispute that it was only after the accident that BP became aware that the well's blow-out preventer, the supposedly fail-safe device that malfunctioned and allowed the leak, had been modified.

The 2010 explosion was caused in part when a section of drill pipe buckled, which led to the malfunction of a supposedly fail-safe blowout preventer on a BP well.

Isn't his statement an admission that the suspension and counseling he supposedly received failed to address the issue?

Landis, however, examined the transcript of the trial in which the statement was supposedly made, failed to find it, declared the affidavit in support of the motion "perjurious", and denied the motion.