Sentence examples for but failed to prevent from inspiring English sources

The UN, the EU and Nato were drawn in but failed to prevent such atrocities as the genocide at Srebrenica.

In May 1565 he was sent as ambassador to Scotland but failed to prevent Mary Stuart's marriage with Henry, Lord Darnley.

One allegation is that the British government knew they were being illegally transferred to Guantánamo Bay but failed to prevent it.

One allegation is that the British government knew the detainees were being illegally transferred to Guantánamo Bay but failed to prevent it.

Earlier, Russia bought roubles for dollars on the foreign exchanges but failed to prevent the biggest one-day decline in the currency since Russia's debt default in 1998.

Massive bail-outs from governments and central banks staved off a second Depression, but failed to prevent a deep recession from which many rich economies have yet fully to recover.

Existing frontline treatments help patients recover, but fail to prevent them passing the infection back to mosquitoes, meaning the spread of the disease continues unabated.

But they are only a handful of workers — both documented and undocumented — stranded in a system that accepts their labor but fails to prevent their exploitation.

Subsequent efforts to eradicate the disease failed, despite the arrival in the 1980s of Praziquantel, a drug scientists say is highly effective in controlling the disease but fails to prevent reinfection.

It effectively protects newborns from meningeal TB but fails to prevent adult pulmonary TB.

This approach yields a remarkable survival rate but fails to prevent neurological and behavioral deficits.