As we reported in our last program, slavery supporters failed to push through Congress a bill to make Kansas a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

We did not get good political support for that, and we failed with that plan.

这一点我们没有获得很多政治支持，我们的计划没有成功。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

In Judges 1:8 and 21, we read that the people of Judah did this and that despite that victory they failed to actually drive out the inhabitants, the Jebusites, who lived there.

士师记》第1章8和21节，我们知道犹大人这样做,它描述了这一胜利,他们实际上并没有将那些居民驱逐出去，耶布斯人，他们住在那里。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"The people we deal with are the people who have tried to cross the border and who have failed."

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

"We have failed to listen to America." "And,we have failed to reflect the will our our constituents.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

I completely failed to understand the depth of the kind of cultural transformation that we were going to have to make it we were ever going to deal with climate change."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21