Sentence examples for tested failed from inspiring English sources

The first two detergents she tested failed.

Eight of the 14 gasoline analyzer machines tested failed to give accurate readings, said Jeff Maclin, a spokesman for the department, who said it was not known whether the heat affected the machines.

Over the past decade and a half, the nation's developers and government officials have replicated discredited urban planning templates, importing ideas that were tested, failed and long since abandoned in places like Europe and the US.

Less than half of all septic systems were in compliance with code, numerous sources of drinking water were contaminated with fecal bacteria, and nine out of eleven wells tested failed to meet health standards.

In 1997 the United States Supreme Court found a Georgia statute requiring candidates for public office to be drug tested failed to show a need pressing enough to "suppress the fourth amendment's normal requirement of individualised suspicion".

The eighth graders did even worse in math: 34 of the 35 students who were tested failed; the other received a C. The rate of progress has been frustrating for Shamere Williams, 22, who is in her first year as a teacher.

Almost invariably, these statutes, when tested, fail to pass constitutional muster.

What if a nuclear-tipped missile test failed over Japan?

But DNA testing failed to link Mr. Steadman to the killing.

In one case, the tests failed to detect the virus.

"I'm surprised the test failed," Mr. Collina said.