Sentence examples for describes a failed from inspiring English sources

The entire ninth chapter, The Sura of Repentance, he says, describes a failed attempt by the Prophet Muhammad to form a state on the Arabian Peninsula.

At least one great secular work was produced as well: the epic The Song of Igor's Campaign, which dates from the late 12th century and describes a failed military expedition against the neighbouring Polovtsy.

The novel's main thread is equally conciliatory: the true story of Rafael Sanchez Mazas, a falangist whom republican peasants saved from execution.In "Maquis", a history of the guerrilleros who went on fighting after 1939, Secundino Serrano describes a failed attempt to free a mountain valley when local people refused to co-operate.

Trump, in a 2005 conversation with a television host that was caught on a live microphone, describes a failed seduction, saying: "I did try and fuck her, she was married," and says that when he meets beautiful women he feels able to "grab them by the pussy".

So they stopped saying 'Segregation forever,' and they said, 'Lock them up and throw away the key.' " That dark view of American history may explain a passage in "Just Mercy," in which Stevenson describes a failed attempt to stop the 2009 execution of a forty-nine-year-old client named Jimmy Dill, who had severe mental impairments.

Describes a failed attempt by the three men to reconcile.

The letter proposed an acquisition of Diebold at a price of $40 a share and described a failed two-year courtship between the two companies.

Infant mortality is tragically high, as is teenage pregnancy -- with all respect to its hard-working citizens, Mississippi might be described a failed state.

One fine day you sit down and there you are, you're hunched in the poorhouse position". Like John Updike in his series about Henry Bech, Reza offers us in "Adam Haberberg" the tightrope spectacle of a fabulously successful writer describing a failed one.

The authorities are investigating what they describe as a failed plot to smuggle an explosive aboard a passenger plane last summer.

"When you see Haiti in the press, it is almost always described as a failed state," he said.