Sentence examples for did or failed from inspiring English sources

Many regret things they did — or failed to do.

What he did, or failed to do, is not divulged in the premiere, but it must have been unforgivable.

Damn you, Basher-75; damn all of us for what we did or failed to do in a time and place I'll always long for.

I was inspired by his insistence that he take responsibility for all that his Marines did or failed to do that day.

Now that the shock of last year's losses has worn off, many investors are reconsidering what their financial professionals did — or failed to do — for them.

Republicans were arguing simultaneously that it was treasonous finger-pointing to question what Bush did or failed to do to prevent the attacks, but patriotic to go after Clinton.

Some Socialist politicians have apologized for contributing to Chile's political polarization before the coup; Senator Hernán Larraín, who was one of General Pinochet's most loyal supporters, apologized "for what I may have done or failed to do".

A deeply nervous White House knows that defeat today for the Democrat candidate in Massachusetts today would be seen as a searing repudiation of all that Mr Obama has done – or failed to do – in the 12 months since his inauguration one year ago tomorrow.

And, even now, he is more viscerally annoyed by what he calls the "self-satisfaction" of Trump's critics than by anything Trump has done, or failed to do.

An accessible history of Iraq that renders its horrors without ignoring what outsiders have done, or failed to do, that fastened Saddam Hussein's fists all the more firmly to the levers of power.

The most powerful step the alpha can take is to assume that whatever gets created "out there" is the direct result of something he has done (or failed to do) and is not simply somebody else's fault.