Sentence examples for written failed from inspiring English sources

Steve Phillips, it has been said and written, failed to do enough to acquire the high-priced free agents he pursued, and then he overrated the team he put together.

Of course, relying on your own ability is a risky strategy, particularly in your business, where nearly everything that's written fails to sell.

Major issue to address: The manuscript, as presently written, fails to do justice to the large body of extant work on internal coupling in proteins.

"Microsoft," the court wrote, "failed to meet its burden of showing that its conduct serves a purpose other than protecting its operating system monopoly".

"His inexperienced and underfunded attorneys," Justice Ginsburg wrote, "failed to develop and raise an obvious intoxication defense, did not object to several egregious instances of prosecutorial misconduct and woefully underprepared for the penalty phase of his trial".

As Beckett wrote: "fail again; fail better".

(Besotted readers, Johnson wrote, fail to judge books on their merits; they "like only when they like the author").

So writing fails to be an exaggeration only if to call it such would be a gross understatement.

American efforts, he writes, fail to persuade the German government "to cross a psychological threshold and break fiscal discipline to spend their way out of recession".

The Boehner proposal, Greenstein writes, fails a "test of basic decency".

(Burdick also co-wrote "Fail Safe," in which a computer error triggers a nuclear war).