Sentence examples for term failed from inspiring English sources

The term "failed state" was coined by President George W Bush to be the byword of US policy in Somalia.

On Iraq, Rice as national security adviser in Bush's first term failed to bring any detached light to bear on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's blind optimism.

Mr. Bush's second term failed after his major miscalculation in trying to partially privatize Social Security and his administration's woeful response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

But a last-minute effort to deny current incumbents a chance to run for a third term failed at the meeting.

Mr. Chiluba will step down at the end of his second and final five-year term as leader of the southern African country after his bid to change the Constitution to permit a third term failed in April.

The term "failed state" could have been invented to describe the place.So the country's first free and fair presidential and parliamentary elections, due on July 30th, will be a landmark (see article).

The MPs say the term fails to acknowledge the wide range of techniques that can now be used to introduce genetic changes in crops.

The literal translation of geci is "sperm", but even that English term fails to convey the Hungarian word's connotations of disdain.

These systems work well initially but over the longer term fail due to clogging with and the depletion of available organic carbon.

The Westervelt equation with a traditional loss term fails to incorporate the full dispersive characteristics of the medium, a deficiency which can be removed, at least in principle by replacing the traditional loss term with the causal convolutional propagation factor.

But then when a term fails to denote, the truth value of an atomic formula containing it cannot as usual be a function of its denotation, and the formula must be evaluated in some nonstandard way.