Sentence examples for failed to destroy a from inspiring English sources

Some 20,000 soldiers, the air force's entire fleet of helicopters and intense bombardments failed to destroy a community of fewer than 1,000.

Fredrickson says toward the end of his book that racism in the United States is "like a bacillus that we have failed to destroy, a live germ that not only continues to make some of us ill but retains the capacity to generate new strains of a disease for which we have no certain cure".

The hermit warned the MacLeod of a dangerous spirit that guards the pass, which had never failed to destroy a true believer.

Durkheim was interested in cultural diversity, and how the existence of diversity nonetheless fails to destroy a society.

Some depots appeared to have been bombed by NATO, but in many cases the airstrikes failed to destroy all of the weapons.

The Forrest River massacre perpetrators failed to destroy all of the evidence of the killings with fire, enabling piles of bones to be discovered later.

Furthermore the artillery barrage targeting the barbed wire emplacements protecting the strongpoints on the slopes of Belluvue Spur failed to destroy them, a fact determined by scouts on 11 October.

A day later, a criminal court withdrew arrest warrants that had been issued against 18 of the protest leaders for their having disobeyed an emergency decree.One way of looking at the revolution of 1932 is to see that it failed to destroy the privileges of an entrenched elite.

But employers at the time all too quietly murmured that it had failed to create jobs and was uncompetitive and the new law failed to destroy what had now become a way of life.

After sappers failed to destroy the bridge, Sturmbannführer Leon Degrelle improvised a defence line of the 5th SS Volunteer Sturmbrigade Wallonien, avoiding a Soviet breakthrough to Tartu.

In this newly politicized context, there was a larger lesson to be drawn from the hard-won wisdom, offered from his father's grave, that hatred "never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law".