Sentence examples for failed interventions from inspiring English sources

This won't cost money: it will save money, in unprecedented amounts, by permitting disinvestment in failed interventions, and it will transform the country.

When Samba-Panza visited New York a few weeks ago, I asked how, after so many failed interventions, the international community could make a difference.

Stevens knew about Antley's recent arrests on charges of driving under the influence and drug possession, about the failed interventions engineered by his wife, Natalie Jowett Antley.

In unusually frank terms, it goes on: "The international setting for both campaigns has significant similarities with world opinion judging both as failed interventions.

What the study describes as "largely discretionary" operations – the failed interventions in Iraq from 2003, and in Afghanistan after 2005 – accounted for 84% of the total cost of British military interventions since 1990.

History, as my colleague Nicholas Kristof reminds us, may judge us harshly if we do nothing, yet there's been more damage to our reputation from our failed interventions than from the times we withheld.

And there was an intervention or a failed intervention.

The Treasury could lose that crucial confidence, and some of its effectiveness, with a failed intervention.

Successful intervention does not win votes; failed intervention loses buckets of them.

There was the failed intervention in Haiti in 1994 and the delayed bombing of Bosnia in the summer of 1995.

The risks of a failed intervention in Iraq are more grave: weakening regimes friendly to the United States, kindling a broader Middle East war, bringing terror to American cities.