Sentence examples for fail to reign from inspiring English sources

Banks are among the main fallers, partly due to renewed talk of a windfall tax on profits if the directors fail to reign in bonuses.

If you fail to reign in your rudeness and something about the baby looking ugly, funny or old does slip out, you may lose a friend.

President Clinton suspended all military ties with Indonesia in September when General Wiranto failed to reign in the local militia as it rampaged through East Timor.

After three years of recession, the US failed to reign in federal spending and agree on a sustainable budget.

The bottom-up approach these mayors are taking sends a strong message to their countries, most of which have failed to reign in pollution on a national level.

The inquest is exposing a tabloid culture run amok, in which investigators, reporters, and photographers for decades engaged in massive intrusions into the private lives of thousands of people, destroyed reputations and ruined careers, while because of the cowardice of the British government, it failed to reign in these excesses.

But, the Court framed the opinion as a straightforward application of the existing caselaw; in other words, it broke no new ground and merely restated the due process principles that have long existed but long failed to reign in the sort of prosecutorial excesses and misconduct on display in Smith.

If Obama failed to rein in Wall Street vultures, Romney reigned among Wall Street vultures.

While it's true that Paul is referring to demonic powers that rule over nations, he's also talking about worldly structures that fail to reflect the reign of God that Jesus proclaimed.

It has given us free reign to experiment, to fail, to try again, to fail again, to find the right ways of doing things.But above all, it was as if we untied the ropes that bound us.

Let the petty squabble, let the partisanships reign, and government will always fail to live up to its true character.