Example sentences for: failing

How can you use “failing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The WP says that although failing to get a simple majority has no constitutional relevance, such an outcome could become a "potent political weapon" with which President Clinton and his allies could depict the impeachment as an illegitimate abuse of power.

  • In 1998, LSC's goal-a goal shared by many of our partners in the American equal justice movement like the American Bar Association and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association-was to obtain a critical mass of new ideas, funds and partners into the national legal services community, and to assist thousands of clients who were being denied access to civil justice because funding was diminished, because programs were failing to keep up with technological and other innovations, and because many of our grantees worked in isolation within states and across state lines.

  • Today's installment concerns domestic policy, specifically the series of modest initiatives he has put together since failing to sell wholesale health care reform.

  • At midweek, Capitol Hill blamed the U.S. intelligence establishment for failing to predict the blasts, but by the weekend the pundits agree that India's intention to light up a few nukes was obvious . The BJP, India's ruling party, is merely making good on its recent campaign promise to test the devices (Margaret Carlson, CNN's Capital Gang ; Sen.

  • Naturally awed by his father's achievements, he swore he didn't want a career in politics (again, not unlike the way W. pursued business after failing to get elected to Congress at age 31).


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