Sentence examples for virtually failed from inspiring English sources

Here's how the scandal of the £4 million campaign that virtually failed went down.

Those who reported having a good SOD learned survey knowledge substantially more accurately and quickly; those who reported having a poor SOD learned them less accurately and quickly, in some cases, virtually failed to learn them at all.

When the album virtually failed to chart, the band was ready to split but had to go out on tour to pay off its debts.

Some mtSNPs however virtually failed (e.g. 5128G; 5746A) or yielded poor results (650C; 9545G).

A crackdown in the 1980's pushed traffickers to what they saw as a virtually fail-safe system for getting back their profits -- the black-market peso exchange.

On Wall Street, Treasuries function like a currency, and investors often use these bonds, which are supposed to be virtually fail-proof, as security deposits in their trading in the markets.

Using a strategy that experts say has virtually always failed in terrorism cases since 9/11, the lawyers will argue that Mr. Hussain's conduct caused the government to cross a line, from a sting operation to an illegal trap.

According to Transparency International, Iraq is virtually a failed state, ranking 175th globally in corruption, ahead of only Somalia, Myanmar and (ahem) Afghanistan, as Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis noted on Common Dreams.

Both first- and second-line treatments alter the natural course of disease by targeting the early phase of inflammation, but virtually all failed to halt the build-up of disability when used in the later secondary progressive phase of disease.

Honduran voters used to go to the polls, virtually without fail, to vote for one of the two dominant right-of-center parties.

Most previous molecular clock dating studies, however, have suffered from limited data and biases in methodologies, and virtually all have failed to acknowledge the large uncertainties associated with the fossil record of early animals, leading to inconsistent estimates among studies.