Sentence examples for fail to derail from inspiring English sources

Thankfully, these sections – as well as the infrequent moments of grindhouse-horror gore and Blazkowicz's irritatingly nihilistic, portentous voice over – fail to derail an otherwise entertaining and generous campaign.

The soundbite, soon an attack-ad mainstay, failed to derail the Obama campaign.

Pumping by OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum-Exporting Countries, has failed to derail the boom in American shale oil.

Even a recent stealth Israeli strike on Syrian targets, reportedly related to North Korea nuclear activity, failed to derail the negotiations.

Still, it was not clear how hard those groups would fight to block Mr. Hagel's nomination after having failed to derail his candidacy since he emerged as front-runner for the job.

Southeastern then became one of the most outspoken voices against the deal, joining forces with Carl C. Icahn and proposing a number of alternative transactions that failed to derail the buyout.

Dissident republican splinter groups have failed to derail the mainstream IRA and most violence is now committed by loyalist thugs with no political backing.The political shifts have been considerable too.

Karrie Webb finally hit a roadblock at the Nabisco Championship today, though it failed to derail her as she tries to win for the fifth time in six starts this year.

The Americans failed to derail an emotionally charged Costa Rican team night as it posted its third straight loss, 2-0, in World Cup qualifying in the North and Central American and Caribbean region.

So, some commentators ask, is it not possible that, having failed to catch real American spies in Russia and having failed to derail the process of rapprochement between Russia and the US by charging innocent Russian scientists, our spy masters decided simply to hand in to their American colleagues somebody who would look like spies but, in reality, are not even professionals?

As chief executive of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) since 2002, he has worked for the interests of thousands of companies in the capital, most of them small and medium enterprises, over a period when even global financial crisis and domestic austerity failed to derail the nation's principal economic locomotive.