Sentence examples for fail to lend from inspiring English sources

Most of all, banks fail to lend to the real economy.

Lim's name-­dropping (Karen Finley) and quoting of highbrow figures (Bertrand Russell, Oscar Wilde) fail to lend intellectual heft to this book.

Danny Alexander, the chief secretary to the Treasury, will announce the commitment of £600m to boost infrastructure projects and will attack bankers who fail to lend to businesses.

The predatory subprime lending crisis demonstrated what can happen when financial institutions fail to lend consistent with safety and soundness, which CRA requires.

Oh well, this is hardly the first time that a great painter or writer has failed to lend conviction to the embodiment of overwhelming goodness.

It would have been deemed politically unwise if, as a standard-bearer for Labour, he had failed to lend sufficient prominence to the Palestinian cause.

Corporate and economic data from both across the water and closer to home have failed to lend any true traction to recent rally.

As it abruptly crosscuts among the five friends, it fails to lend the characters' individual stories enough dramatic resonance to make us care about them.

The bank's treatment of small businesses was the subject of a critical report by the former Bank of England deputy governor Sir Andrew Large which said it had "failed" to lend.

Lord Oakeshott, the Liberal Democrat former Treasury spokesman, said both the taxpayer-backed Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds were full of "grossly overpaid public servants" who had failed to lend properly and should not be paid bonuses at all, while the other banks should be left to run their businesses freely.

But when tests failed to lend conclusive support, Wout Boerjan, a molecular geneticist at Ghent University in Belgium, suspected there was more to the story.