Sentences with phrase «failed on»

But, Wing continued, «we couldn't convince the jury that Dr. Nickerson's real motivation was because of Mercedes's accent,» and the case also failed on appeal.

The motion proposed by Legislator Carey failed on party lines to get the required minimum of «ayes» to pass.

«For a second time, the City Council failed on its most important responsibility to the residents of Troy: passing a balanced budget to fund operations of the City,» Madden said.

«Labour have the gall to claim they've kept all their promises, yet the 4,387 patients left for over 12 hours without being treated will testify that they've failed on their pledge to eradicate lengthy waits.

In addition, despite receiving evidence of the executive director's misdeeds, the commission inexcusably failed on several occasions to investigate these serious allegations against Mr. Teitelbaum.»

A motion by Alderwoman Lauren Cnare to refer a Common Council decision on the Edgewater redevelopment to a later meeting failed on a 9 - 8 vote early Wednesday morning.

Those votes failed on Monday night.

The attempt failed on Tuesday, when she qualified for a primary runoff.

A similar motion was offered by Alderwoman Lauren Cnare at the Dec. 15 meeting, but it failed on a 9 - 8 vote.

«The more that's revealed about the Rivington House deal, the clearer it becomes that the administration failed on every level of oversight and operations,» Comptroller Scott Stringer said in a statement.

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen (Md.) noted at a press conference Thursday that Republicans did their best to link Critz with the health care bill, cap and trade, Obama and Pelosi and failed on all fronts.

«Whitewashing BBC fails to tell licence feepayers about new union leader's militant ambition to take over Labour Party Main Labour MPs and advisers: We failed on immigration»

Ed Cox had four years to get the state GOP's act together, put together a real campaign organization and raise money and he has failed on every front.

«High quality education is essential to economic growth, yet this Government has failed on its promise to protect investment in schools and colleges.

She also hit Cuomo over corruption issues, saying he failed on his promise to «clean up Albany,» noting that his former «right - hand man, Joe Percoco, was just convicted of selling his office to the highest bidder.»

But the agenda failed its first serious test in the defeated AV referendum, and now it has failed on the Lords too.

In 2014, when Republicans held power in coalition with the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, the Dream Act failed on the Senate floor, 29 - 30.

He's talking about truancy, why the district failed on the first day, and how he plans to change that.

Rockland Must Move on After Bailout Fails in Senate Rockland County's proposal to the New York State Senate for a debt bill allowing them to borrow up to $ 80 million failed on Thursday, June 21.

The government failed on its promise to tackle the causes of crime and instead pursued a one - dimensional approach, David Cameron claimed.

Kofi Adams questioned the basis of moving YEA workers from one region to another, saying the government has failed on its promise of creating jobs for the youth so the transfer will compel most of them to abandon the job and then they will have the opportunity of fixing their people.

«He has failed on fairness,» Clegg says.

However, the NAO found the new contracts have failed on both counts, with consultants spending less time with patients and few opportunities for flexible care.

Nana Addo has tried to occupy the Flagstaff House and failed on two earlier occassions, but he (and many others) believe that the third time is the charm whereas Donald Trump is looking upset the system as a businessman with very little political history taking on the quest to gain the White House.

They failed on boom and bust, Cameron says, and presided over one of the longest and deepest recessions in the world.

«And I think I made it very clear what the differences between my approach to leadership and his approach to leadership, which I think he's failed on several angles over the past four years.»

The Federal Government failed on Tuesday to produce former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) before a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja for trial in relation to corruption charges brought against him by the government.

They say he's raised tens of millions of campaign dollars from real - estate developers and the super rich, failed on a promise to clean up political corruption and, worse, gone back on his word to end Republican control of the state Senate.

While that failed on Friday, Trump is still threatening to cut Medicaid (forcing New York to foot more of the cost of healthcare for people in poverty or close to the poverty line).

It is bitterly disappointing the Chancellor has failed on both counts.»

«Shockingly, Mr. President has not only failed on all fronts, his body language is aiding and abetting corruption, harassment and intimidation of citizens as well as instilling of a siege mentality in our land.»

These other efforts certainly have failed on a regular basis since the beginning of Cuomo's second term.

ConservativeHome's own election review concluded that the campaign failed on five fronts, in particular:

Efforts to get the Chairman, Senate Committee on Financial Crimes and Anti-corruption, Senator Chukwuka Utazi, failed on Saturday night as he did not pick repeated calls made to his mobile telephone line.

He failed on all three.

``... he calls me an absentee panelist; people didn't understand why he often read my messages and so I had an arrangement with him to appear on his show and I kept postponing and so I failed him on that score... it's very painful but God knows best... too young to go and it just doesn't make sense» he said.

IDC Sen. Jeff Klein attempted to put the abortion provision on a separate piece of legislation as an amendment, but the effort failed on a procedural vote.

Former President John Dramani Mahama has lashed out at the government for what he describes as the slow pace of development, saying the government has failed on a majority of its promises to the citizenry.

Recent reforms have failed on all counts.

He further said that «Tinubu of course gave the votes from Lagos and a few other Southwest states, except Osun, to Jonathan, while the calculation of Ribadu was to reduce Buhari's votes in the north even though he failed on that score.»

Not only has the bombing been immoral, it has failed on its own terms.

That should be the bare minimum for a political party yet the others all failed on one or more count.

Yet most failed on both counts because the combination of divide - and - rule politics and high levels of corruption led to economic stagnation and mounting social tensions.

I still carry the disappointment that my body failed me on so many levels.

And I would never tell you that Mila failed on being a mother to me because she didn't.

I Failed on this week.

«I suppose it was inevitable that the run was going to come to an end at some stage, but yet again we failed on the big stage.

He failed on a number of times to track the runs of Mata.

Had a poor first half as he failed on numerous occasions to get at Warnock when one on one.

On this occasion he failed on both counts and yet still survived for almost 80 minutes before being replaced by 10 million pound misfit Robert Snodgrass.