One day her brother "failed to come home, the same as my father before him."

What if one generator failed a significant time before the other?

As happened with other such early attempts, the crossing failed before it even began.

This business idea later failed before the final opening of the building after the owner went into bankruptcy.

But even terror and admiration of the captain failed us before the end.

The electrical fire caused some systems to fail before landing.

How can we fail, with a true guide before us?

Your leaders failed you at every turn, both before and after the storm, especially if you were among the poor.

However, her performance did not stand as she had failed an out-of-competition drug test in early December, two weeks before the event.

Now for a moment Emlyn's heart failed her, since before such a tribunal what chance had they?