Sentence examples for and failed to improve from inspiring English sources

For six decades, through three wars and one nuclear standoff, diplomats have tried, and failed, to improve relations.

South Africa has struggled to deliver growth in recent years and failed to improve the lives of millions of its poorest citizens.

Recently there have been calls for prosecutions of figures from the apartheid-era government, reflecting a belief that the drive for reconciliation let some perpetrators off the hook and failed to improve the lives of many in the black majority.

The ensuing conflict has cost an estimated 200,000 lives, left 30,000 Mexicans missing and failed to improve policing, implement the rule of law or stop human rights abuses.

The protesters in Kut have called on the province's governor, Latif Hamad al-Tarfa, to resign over accusations that he stole money from the government and failed to improve the economy and electrical supply.

Vettel set his time on his first run in the final part of qualifying, and failed to improve on his second.

And Williams even tries — and fails — to improve on Chekhov's ending.

Tim-Kevin Ravnjak is first to go, but he can't complete his run and fails to improve on his first round 72.25.

River rehabilitation schemes are attempting to address this; however restoration is frequently undertaken with minimal scientific input and fails to improve biodiversity.

After two years of watching politicians on both sides of the fence squabble and prevaricate and fail to improve their lives, Egyptians appear to be rejecting representative democracy, without having had much of a chance to participate in it.

North Korea's "continued pursuit... of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles will only undermine its security and fail to improve the lives of its citizens", said Ban's spokesman, Farhan Haq.