Sentence examples for unsuccessful measures from inspiring English sources

Tuesday's vote marked the third attempt to legalize recreational marijuana in Alaska, following unsuccessful measures in 2000 and 2004.

Sanders actually voted in favor of unsuccessful measures in Congress that would have bailed out automakers, but opposed the program that ultimately directed funds to Detroit because it also went toward bailing out Wall Street.

Officials of high-tech companies also supported an unsuccessful measure that would have lowered the vote to pass a school bond measure to a simple majority from a two-thirds majority.

Less well known is the fact that Trafalgar Square is full of big fountains planned in the 1840s to prevent "riotous assembly" – a largely unsuccessful measure, from "Bloody Sunday" in 1887 to the student protests of 2011.

On Tuesday, the Santa Monica-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group that more than a decade ago backed an unsuccessful measure to reduce California automobile insurance rates, announced it was drafting a ballot initiative to deal with the electricity problem.

This headlong and unsuccessful measure was rescinded the next day.

Mandela disagreed with Mda's approach, in December 1947 supporting an unsuccessful measure to expel communists from the ANCYL, considering their ideology un-African.

Her only unsuccessful bill was a measure to tighten the rules under which cigar bars could claim exemptions from Colorado's indoor smoking ban.

I myself was the chief petitioner of an unsuccessful ballot measure to change Oregon's system in 2008.

"DOD's efforts can only be described as fragmented, unsuccessful half-measures," says Leslie Benet, a biopharmaceuticals researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who chaired the 17-member panel.

Though ultimately unsuccessful, the measure would have given voters a choice to decide whether to chip off Pima County from the rest of Arizona, creating another state: Baja Arizona.