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Example sentences for: failing

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Some conservatives have attempted to associate Flytrap with the political and cultural values of the 1960s--let it all hang out and so on--though they also have insisted that feminists are betraying feminism's roots in the same period by failing to condemn the male perpetrator.
An article notes a promising new medical procedure: "downsizing" failing hearts and lungs by trimming tissue.
These events encouraged the Trust to investigate the publication of scientific research, to see if there was anything research-funding organisations could be doing to stimulate change in what appears to be a failing market.
Director Joe Dante is chided for wasting realistic special effects and the voices of Tommy Lee Jones and Ernest Borgnine and for failing to reprise the biting humor of his magnum opus, Gremlins . Critics dwell on the irony of the late Phil Hartman's character getting caught in crossfire.
Bonus disclosure: As is no secret, I was in the antiwar protest movement in the '60s and avoided being drafted in 1970 by deliberately failing a physical.)