Sentences with phrase «failed foray»

It will take consumers a long time to forget about Huawei's failed foray into the U.S. market.

Peterson now works as a casino - boat dealer in Elgin, Ill., after a failed foray into real estate.

Let's hope it doesn't face plant like Poke, Facebook's first and failed foray into the ephemeral mobile messaging market.

The maker of electronic smart boards was squeezed by shrinking school - board budgets and a failed foray into the business market.

Not exact matches

He is moving Shell, which tried and failed in earlier renewable - energy forays, into a deeper round of them, part of a broader push into selling electricity.

I have long admired Matisse and his almost hedonistic celebration of beauty, but I had thought that his foray into Christian art could only fail, since Matisse clearly was not a Christian.

He regarded Muggeridge as a «failed novelist,» whose foray into intelligence work during the war permitted him to escape the unhappiness of family life for a life «where things were deceptive and dishonest by definition.»

her first forays into coconut flour baking had not gone well so she was nervous and decided to make it well in advance of our travel date and freeze it if it looked ok but have time for something else if it failed.

Dealt with Barnes down the City right but failed to find any support in the box on his occasional forays down field.

Her husband became headmaster of the Leys School in Cambridge, where her foray into local politics was to begin, though she failed to be selected for a parliamentary seat in 1974.

There are many reasons that Steve Levy's brief foray into the Republican Party failed, and everyone has looked at Ed Cox's role, but Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf sees a larger issue at play.

If you won't find yourself in New York anytime soon, Twig will happily ship you a terrarium, or a DIY kit for a no - fail first foray into terrarium making.

Hilburn chronicles Cash's early hits such as «Folsom Prison Blues,» his foray into television in the late 1960s with «The Johnny Cash Show,» his failed first marriage and his deep love for June Carter, as well as his drug addictions.

This is their second foray, Daydream was the first and it required very specific equipment for phone companies to make it work, but it failed to get any traction.

In stunningly resonant prose, Tóibín captures the loneliness and longing, the hope and despair of a man who never married, never resolved his sexual identity, and whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love.

It is important to remember that investors should never be deterred if they fail to achieve great success in their first few forays into Forex trading as, like any other skill, Forex trading requires practice and experience in order to get it right.

Bill Hadley, CEO and founder of Bio-Pro Research — the maker of Urine Off brand urine odor and stain remover — concurs that manufacturers» foray into the arena of eco-friendly cleaning products was thwarted early on by failed attempts to create green products that were as powerful as conventional ones.

Social scientists understandably complain about uninformed forays into their domains by law professors and legal practitioners who use empirical research in opportunistic and even quite obviously mistaken ways.20 And yet, some of the new empiricists are equally guilty of approaching the legal world in opportunistic fashion, failing to take legal knowledge and expertise seriously.

Google failed to turn Google Glass into a viable mainstream product, but Apple thinks it knows something the search giant doesn't — based on a new report claiming that Apple is exploring a similar foray into «digital glasses.»