Sentence examples for valiant failure from inspiring English sources

With or without Gray's imprimatur, whether an against-the-odds triumph or valiant failure, the play promises to be a landmark of Scottish theatre.

"Even if it turned out to be a failure, I thought then, it would be a valiant failure, full of successes".

Terence Craig, founder and chief executive of PatternBuilders, a company in South San Francisco, Calif., that builds software for the retail industry, says that "there is such a thing as valiant failure".

Terence Craig, founder and chief executive of PatternBuilders, a company in South San Francisco, Calif., that builds software for the retail industry, says that "there is such a thing as valiant failure". Mr. Craig says his first software company, Optimize Solutions, raised $4.5 million but closed in 2001 when the tech bubble burst.

BG As much about valiant failure as heroic victory (is finishing last in any other race considered a badge of honour?), the Tour de France has thrown up more than its fair share of tragicomic tales in its 100 editions, few more amusing than that of Abdel-Khader Zaaf, the man who famously went the wrong way.

Now it appears to this observer that President Obama may be fated to travel the same path as Gorbachev, and like him, end up as a valiant failure.

In his years in the Senate, Mr. Breaux had a record of valiant failures.

Adam C-S: WARNING: 'The-English-love-a-valiant-failure-&-this-was-the-very-bravest-of-surrenders' narrative imminent.

ABBREVIATIONS: SCD, sudden cardiac death; CKD, chronic kidney disease; MADIT II, Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial-II; HR, hazard risk; OR, odds ratio; HF, heart failure; VALIANT, Valsartan in Acute Myocardial Infarction Trial; ICD, implanted cardioverter-defibrillator; ESRD, end-stage renal disease, RR, risk reduction.

Though undoubtedly campaigning in 2008 with the noblest of intentions, it is looking increasingly likely that Barack Obama will enter the history books as not only a one-term president, but also a valiant but deeply flawed failure.

A series of landmark trials with ACE inhibitors in patients with LVD or HF such as VALsartan in Acute myocardial INfarction (VALIANT), Valsartan in Heart Failure Trial (Val-HeFT) and others have reported reductions in CV mortality and morbidity [ 22, 23, 25, 27, 28, 31, 32].