Sentence examples for to fail that from inspiring English sources

When it pissed it down, you knew were not going to fail that day.

Environmental groups responded by saying the plan was "doomed to fail". That same year, the central government launched its "Indonesia Free Waste 2020" campaign.

They were also aware that there is no success without a willingness to fail; that failure is a part of progress.

What happened to ending "too big to fail?" That was one objective of the financial overhaul bill, the Dodd-Frank Act, that was passed this year.

"It's a huge calamity for an export to fail that way," Janet Stotsky, the International Monetary Fund's mission chief for Malawi, said in a telephone interview.

If the new fuel caused an engine to fail, that would be a bigger challenge in a plane with two engines than in one with four.

For the left, greens, liberals and all progressives the nationalisation of Northern Rock cannot be allowed to fail; that would be another defeat for public ownership.

No actionMost, perhaps all, of the banks now making a living by trading in the capital markets are "too big to fail": that is, they can count on a government bail-out.

Third, Ms. Miller insists that "the evidence on both sides of the argument is mixed and complicated" because of the many factors besides too big to fail that could be the cause of the funding advantage.

Now, it's true, as Felix points out, that moral hazard isn't a binary thing — even if investors thought only that there was a good chance that a bank was too big to fail, that would still make them more willing to lend to the bank.

(On the view that to be a fact is to be a true proposition, Supervenience trivially holds if it is assumed that no proposition can be true if it does not exist. If that assumption is dropped, then there is room for Supervenience to fail. That might be taken to be an argument for keeping the assumption on the view under consideration).