Sentence examples for was not failing from inspiring English sources

A QAA spokesman said the university was not failing, but there were areas that needed improving to "maintain our confidence".

When he sought reinstatement in 2003, he was denied even though he said he no longer had a problem and was not failing drug tests.

"Reagan was President," Clinton pointed out, and that was a moment when, to put it lightly, the country was not failing.

The service was not failing, and many of the problems it had were the consequence of sustained government mismanagement and misguided target-setting, rather than internal incompetence.

In Vilnius, Lithuania, on Thursday, the United States defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, also asked allies for more troops, and he said that NATO was not in crisis and that the Afghan mission was not failing.

A team of HMIs (Her Majesty's inspectors), sent to the school later on behalf of Mr Woodhead to carry out a "corroboration visit" to help decide whether to back the decision, concluded unanimously that it was not failing.

I wondered if I'd be quite so forgiving if his body wasn't failing him.

But I wondered, during the longueurs of his previous two films — "Lust, Caution" and "Taking Woodstock" — if his narrative sense wasn't failing.

I just wish my eyesight wasn't failing and my cranky fat traditionalist bone wasn't itching me.

I had to accept that giving up homeschool wasn't failing.

"Bilingual education wasn't failing before," said Patricia Gándara, a longtime bilingual education researcher and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.