Sentence examples for the agreement failed from inspiring English sources

In a statement posted on its web site Friday, Chinalco's chairman, Xiong Weiping, said: "We're very disappointed the agreement failed".

Both executives said that the Justice Department, as well as advertisers who opposed the agreement, failed to understand its benefits.

In Connecticut, where a majority of union members accepted the offer, the agreement failed because of an arcane voting system that required the equivalent of 80 percent approval.

But the agreement failed to set a 2010 goal for reaching a binding international treaty to seal the provisions of the accord.

Critics also said that the agreement failed to take into account the very kind of enriching program that Pyongyang has now admitted to operating.

McDonnell said it was disappointing that the agreement failed to include any new inquiry into the 1989 murder of the Belfast lawyer Pat Finucane and a bill of rights for Northern Ireland.

The governor of Oregon had ceded 7.5 million acres to the Indians for $200,000 in money and goods, only to have the agreement fail in the Senate because it set aside "overly generous reservations".

Industry officials expressed satisfaction with the agreement but stressed that its enforcement was critical, and Mr. Kantor pledged that should the agreement fail he would "use our trade laws to prevent further erosion" of the industry's competitive position.

The sensitivity of the issue is reflected in the fact that the cover mandates that the chapter not be declassified until four years after the Trans-Pacific Partnership comes into force or trade negotiations end, should the agreement fail.

Therefore, no player is worse off than if the agreement fails.

Responding to the deal, the First Minister Carwyn Jones warns that the agreement "fails to deliver" for Wales.