In this triumphalist climate, candidates such as Lansbury who had opposed the war found themselves unpopular, and he failed to retake his Bow and Bromley seat.
In 1309 the so-called "popular crusade" was again to emphasise that the proud and rich had failed to retake Jerusalem; which, with remarkable logic, was taken to mean that God intended the weak and innocent to do so.The pious to ParisSuch preaching in the years before 1212 undoubtedly encouraged the youths to set off on their misadventure.
#Mosul situation map acc to news outlets - the city is controlled by #ISIS major buildings, banks, schools all pic.twitter.com/m45oNusi4x Though Isis took Falluja, 40 miles west of Baghdad, in January the government has shelled it and dropped barrel bombs but has failed to retake it.
Despite occasionally successful military campaigns in Huguang and Guangdong in the next two years, Li failed to retake important cities.
Meiklejohn led a small group of sappers, members of the 24th and Captain Holland, Climo from the earlier charge, and Lieutenant Manley to recapture the ammunition dump; Holland and the General were wounded, and the group severely depleted as it twice failed to retake the dump, but a third attempt proved successful.
The Union army – led by black troops from the 54th Massachusetts regiment – failed to retake the fort, and the Confederate army won the battle.
Why Hillary Clinton lost the election: the economy, trust and a weak message The Democratic party failed to retake the US Senate on Tuesday night, following losses in Florida, Pennsylvania and Indiana, as Republicans delivered Donald Trump a Congress firmly in conservative control.
It was only after the Democrats failed to retake the House in 1996 and polling continued to show huge public support for balancing the budget that President Clinton came to the table and signed the 1997 balanced-budget agreement.
The government has sent reinforcements but so far they have failed to retake the town.As the economy falters and unrest threatens to descend into tribal mayhem, many Yemenis fear that angry and hungry people may join groups involved in hijacking, bank robberies and arms- and drug-smuggling, as well as jihadist outfits seeking to bring down the government and impose sharia law.
Today, by contrast, Republicans are coming off an election in which they failed to retake the presidency despite a weak economy, failed to retake the Senate even though far more Democratic than Republican seats were at risk, and held the House only through a combination of gerrymandering and the vagaries of districting.
