Sentence examples for failed to actually from inspiring English sources

For all his persuasive ways, Mr. Sinclair has so far failed to actually build anything in Kosovo.

I also failed to actually go to either place, owing to prior commitments as well as to my general lack of interest in the African subcontinent.

But the three Tammany appointees to the city's four-year-old Board of Electrical Control had been greedily awarding lucrative contracts to friends and relations who failed to actually do the work of burying the wires.

I debated the Americans for Tax Reform impresario at the American Enterprise Institute last night (I'll link to the transcript whenever it becomes available), and since I spent the evening arguing that his Taxpayer Protection Pledge has failed to actually protect taxpayers I thought I'd say something nice about him this space.

Lange thought this position was completely unrealistic, and that those who pushed it failed to actually listen to the workers themselves.

They also said they'd cancel future bookings at Troy's home, but failed to actually do that, he said, causing more confusion.

Or if they do succeed in agreeing to connect their resources, they often fail to actually support the network and invest in it.

That being said, I keep talking about "goals" in the abstract and then fail to actually set myself anything more concrete than "do the homework".

At minimum, they should be willing to do what Newt did and hold a press conference to announce the formation of an exploratory committee and then fail to actually announce it.

A significant number of pedestrians, however, fail to actually wait on a refuge island, and instead dash across the road.

These investments can be flashy distractions to make management and shareholders call the company innovative while it fails to actually re-envision its core operations.