7 sentences with 'failure'
Example sentences and phrases with the word failure and other words derived from it.
• « Jim became ill with kidney failure and had to undergo dialysis, which prevented him from continuing to travel. Still, he did not stop writing. »
• « You can learn how your body works and make resolutions, but that's not enough to keep an exercise program from ending in failure. »
• « The final event that removed any pretense that the League was anything other than an Athenian empire was the failure of a naval expedition sent in 460 BC by Athens to aid an Egyptian revolt against the Persians. »
• « Only one major failure marred his reign: three legions (perhaps as many as 20,000 soldiers) were destroyed in a gigantic ambush in the forests of Germania in 9 CE, halting any attempt to expand Roman power beyond the Rhine and Danube rivers. »
• « Unlike his rival Louis Blanc, Proudhon was sceptical of the state's ability to bring about meaningful reform, and after the failure of the French revolution of 1848 came to believe that all state power was inherently oppressive. »