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Перевод: failed

[прилагательное]
неудачный; неудавшийся

Тезаурус:

1. While propagandists of drainage, such as Dugdale, admired the corn and the oil-seed rape which could now be sown on the drained land, they failed to appreciate that the people of Axholme already grew sufficient corn for their needs on the higher land.
2. He was also a creature entirely without compassion and because of this rarely failed to uncover information.
3. Our collecting had begun successfully although I had failed to realise how cold it could be at night in the forest.
4. One after another, men failed in their attempts to drive the nails, usually succeeding in bending them, so I was proud when Dad, using the skill gained over so many years at the anvil, gave his nail an almighty thump sending it through to the other side of the board.
5. On his way home to Brest, sailing north-about round Ireland, Jones confirmed his reputation as a maritime Robin Hood by releasing, with a new sail and money in their pockets, some Irish fishermen he had captured, but his arrival back in port, on 8 May 1778, proved a disappointment, for the French failed to give him the hero's welcome he had expected.
6. Similarly the wife of a Yorkshire brassworker could never forgive her parents for handing her over to be brought up by her retired grandparents, who had come to live nearby after their glassworks business had failed.
7. "Failed!"
8. This was the sixth general election in a row in which Labour failed to win the support of 40 per cent of voters.
9. It is also disappointing to see that home shopping, in the shape of Grattan, has failed to recover from the travails of last year's postal strike and turned in a fall in profits from 14.3m to 8.6m.
10. His 44,000 of quoted shares comprise mainly 40,000 of British Petroleum and only 2,345 in the failed Maxwell Communication Corporation.
11. In 1957 air control failed in the Oman.
12. As a result evidence clearly showed that the two Constables had been idling and gossiping together at a place where one of them had no right to be and that the Acting Sergeant, on his round of inspection, met these two Constables together, failed to note in his book, as was required in the regulations, the place where and the time where he met them, and to see that the Constables then noted in their books the time and place of his visit
13. Of 153 farmers visited 109 (71%) claimed to make a profit while 19 (12%) believed they broke even, and 25 (16%) claimed to have failed to make a profit.