His new poem, a love poem, told of a young husband leading his wife upstairs to the bedroom when the lights in the house have failed.

The attempt had failed because, when endeavoring to cut his wrists, this murderer of seven women had fainted at the sight of blood.

Even when the intensity of the shocks was increased gradually, it failed to evoke any signs of pain.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

They had all been laughing, joking, when suddenly the engine had failed.

Keegan, a 6-foot-3-inch 158-pounder, gave up the Orioles' last two safeties over the final three frames, escaping a load of trouble in the ninth when the Birds threatened but failed to tally.

The verdict brought vindication to the dead woman's stepson, Vincent Hengesbach, 54, who was tried for the same crime in December, 1958, and released when the jury failed to reach a verdict.

He abandoned the bill when it failed to garner sufficient Whig supporters.

He tried but failed to write a letter to her, and he still grieves for his loss .</ br > Grand is a neighbor of Cottard, and it is he who calls Rieux for help, when Cottard tries to commit suicide.

A seventh landing mission, the 1970 Apollo 13 flight, failed in transit to the Moon when an oxygen tank explosion disabled the command spacecraft's propulsion and life support, forcing the crew to use the Lunar Module as a " lifeboat " for these functions to return to Earth safely.

The crusaders believed their oaths were made invalid when the Byzantine contingent under Tatikios failed to help them during the siege of Antioch ; Bohemund, who had set himself up as Prince of Antioch, briefly went to war with Alexios in the Balkans, but was blockaded by the Byzantine forces and agreed to become Alexios ' vassal by the Treaty of Devol in 1108.

Andronikos III's attempt to make up for this setback by annexing Bulgarian Thrace failed in 1332, when he was defeated by the new Bulgarian Emperor Ivan Alexander at Rousokastron.

Although they failed to make the playoffs in 2009, the streak ended when the team rallied to win their final three regular season games to record back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.

Arnulf, however, failed to conquer the whole of Great Moravia when he attempted it in 892, 893, and 899.

The plot failed owing to the late arrival of the Athenian force, when Nicodromus had already fled the island.

There was much dispute about the questionability of the reason why there was another AMD treaty when one had failed not many years before.

Despite the Democratic majority in Congress, the effort to create a national health care system ultimately died when compromise legislation by George J. Mitchell failed to gain a majority of support in August 1994.

In the letter to Wanley, Hickes responds to an apparent charge against Smith, made by Wanley, that Smith had failed to mention the Beowulf script when cataloguing Cotton MS. Vitellius A. XV.

The Admiralty, upon receiving Herbert's report, immediately ordered its suppression, but the strict censorship imposed on the event failed when Americans who had witnessed the incident from Nicosians lifeboats spoke to newspaper reporters after their return to the United States.

Kamenev, Trotsky's brother-in-law, was added to the editorial board from the Bolsheviks, but the unification attempts failed in August 1910 when Kamenev resigned from the board amid mutual recriminations.

The Buddha succeeded when the King and all his soldiers failed to eliminate the murderer by force.

He returned when Cecilia was two, but left four years later after his business failed.

The practice has been discontinued due to fatalities, when the participants failed to land onto the safety net.

Instead we have stood idly by, watched our commuter railroad service decline, and have failed to offer a helping hand.

Under the Covenant of Works mankind, represented ultimately in a covenantal sense under Adam beginning from the Garden of Eden, failed to live as God intended and stood condemned.

However, their attempt to challenge President Kaunda for the Presidency on the UNIP ticket failed as both were prevented and disqualified by the manipulations of President Kaunda, who stood unopposed.

However, during a live broadcast on October 8, 1930, Beiderbecke's seemingly limitless gift for improvisation finally failed him: " He stood up to take his solo, but his mind went blank and nothing happened ," recalled a fellow musician, Frankie Cush.

The Lia Fáil, the coronation stone at Tara which was said to roar when the rightful king stood on it, roared under Conn for the first time since Cúchulainn split it with his sword when it failed to roar for Lugaid Riab nDerg.

Many economists contend that ISI failed in Latin America and was one of many factors leading to the so-called lost decade of Latin American economics, while others contend that ISI led to the " Mexican Miracle ", the period that lasted from 1940 to 1975 in which economic growth stood at 6 % or higher.

In September 1994 Reynolds was infamously stood up by Russian president Boris Yeltsin whose plane landed at Shannon Airport but who failed to emerge to meet the waiting Irish dignatories.

By 1985 there were plans to publish the manuscript as it stood, together with some of the other short Wimsey pieces, both published and unpublished, but these failed due to the death of Sayers ' son and heir Anthony Fleming in that year.

Because of margin buying, investors stood to lose large sums of money if the market turned down — or even failed to advance quickly enough.

In the February 1974 general election, Hamilton stood as the Conservative candidate for Abertillery and in the 1979 general election as a parliamentary candidate in Bradford North, but failed on both occasions.

He stood for election in Haute-Garonne in 1869 in opposition to the imperial policy and failed, but was elected to the National Assembly in 1871 and later.

The first attempt at shooting failed because the patient was " weak and nervous to be stood still nearly an hour " which is took time to get a photo.

In the 2011 Holyrood elections, the SSP stood in all regional lists, however failed to gain any MSPs.

He stood as an independent, having failed to gain the Liberal Party nomination.

In 1919, the drop-out rate had risen to 35 %, while in 1939 the number of students failed in their final examinations stood at 44 %.

Having failed to win selection for the 1983 general election, Mowlam was selected as Labour candidate for the safe seat of Redcar after James Tinn stood down.

Casual vacancies are filled by the ' countback ' method, which involves recounting the original ballot papers to elect one of the candidates who stood but failed to be elected in the last election.

A slight individual who stood just tall and weighed only, Funston failed an admissions test to the United States Military Academy in 1884, then attended the University of Kansas from 1885 to 1888, but did not graduate.

These gains failed to materialise however, as many potential SP voters chose to cast strategic votes for the Labour Party, who stood a good chance of winning the elections.

Some had failed to be selected by their parties to stand and so stood as independents, whilst others had changed parties during the course of the assembly.

He stood down from this post to join the English committee that failed to bring the 2018 World Cup to England ( with Russia chosen to host instead ).

They failed to mount a challenge for the new Premier League title, and as late as March they stood 15th in the table.

He led UKIP into the 2001 general election, in which it stood more than 420 candidates but failed to make any breakthroughs ( although it did consolidate its position as the largest of the smaller parties ).

He stood against the incumbent Popular Unionist Party MP Sir James Kilfedder in North Down as a " Real Unionist " but failed to win the seat.