Sentence examples for unsuccessful first from inspiring English sources

And an unsuccessful first round would give his challengers political ammunition.

Mr. Romney, in his unsuccessful first run for president in 2008, won the Michigan primary.

After an unsuccessful first attempt, he won a seat representing Gorky – later renamed Nizhny Novgorod – and became a staunch Boris Yeltsin loyalist.

We wanted to know about his private life: his unsuccessful first marriage, to Evelyn; the public collapse of his marriage to Winnie.

After an unsuccessful first venture into politics, Burke was appointed secretary in 1765 to the Marquess of Rockingham, leader of one of the Whig groups, the largely liberal faction in Parliament, and he entered the House of Commons that year.

The U.S. economic and political establishment reacted by passing (after an unsuccessful first attempt) the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, which sought to prevent further collapse and to bail out the economy.

"People won't like it, but it's better than using unsuccessful first-generation equipment that's going to produce this kind of mayhem," Ms. McCormack said.

On the half-hour mark, Gayle went down theatrically when being shepherded down a blind alley by Leon Barnett in what was the first of three unsuccessful first-half Peterborough penalty shouts that left the home crowd furious and booing the referee, Eddie Ilderton.

The ball was tipped, and as Jurevicius made an unsuccessful second effort for the ball, his left leg was twisted between two Steelers defenders.

Angered by the suggestion that Ireland be partitioned (which he was later constrained to accept), Griffith attacked the unsuccessful third Irish Home Rule Bill (1912 14).

Officials determined that the bar was improperly set on her unsuccessful third try, and Suhr made good on the extra attempt, improving her own mark by an inch.