Sentence examples for that failed a from inspiring English sources

Local television reports earlier pinned blame for the fire on "careless" renovation in the basement of the six-story building, a maze of shops and narrow corridors that failed a fire safety test just a week ago.

Her lawyer, Alan Stutman, said that he would appeal and that the case was more about a system that failed a mother who needed help.

Meanwhile, a chorus of politicians is clamouring for different things from the banks that failed: a ban on bonuses, lending at less than commercial terms, withdrawal from offshore tax havens, preservation of high-street jobs.Mr Kingman has recruited 11 members of a planned staff of 15, mainly private-sector "heavyweights" from the likes of Merrill Lynch and UBS.

Re "A Tiny Hominid With No Place on the Family Tree" (April 28): John Noble Wilford and the scientists who reviewed hobbit research seem to have overlooked the possibility that H. floresiensis, far from being "the black swan of paleontology," may be simply an early higher primate that failed; a cousin of ours, alongside chimps, gorillas and orangutans.

"The betting is that this was an attempt at a nuclear test that failed," a senior U.S. administration official said.

So it seems strange to now give a good business model back to the sector that failed a few years ago.

In addition, we excluded SNPs that failed an exact test of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in each population separately.

An education system that fails a section of the young will take years to fix.

Another tells of moving from Japan to Silicon Valley to take a position at a company that failed a month later.

Emirates ranked only 24th among international airlines as recently as 2000, putting it on a par with Sabena, the state-owned Belgian carrier that failed a year later.

If that fails, a messy fight can ensue.