Sentence examples for failed to enlist from inspiring English sources

Paulson failed to enlist several banks before Goldman was able to line up clients.

The pro-French patrioti ("patriots") had completely failed to enlist the support of the masses.

Within a year, they were being bled by the Shiites, whom they failed to enlist as allies.

Either he was rejected for poor eyesight; or he failed to enlist and instead joined up as an ambulance driver.

Even as he looks to his sweetheart for some sign of tenderness — she thinks he has failed to enlist out of cowardice — his expression barely changes.

Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright won support from Brazil today for strengthening the region's fragile democracies, but failed to enlist it behind a $1.3 billion fight against Colombian drug traffickers and rebels.

He fails to communicate any urgency, fails to make his enthusiasm contagious, fails to enlist the reader's complicity.

Failing to enlist British interests in the development of the Congo region, Stanley took service with the king of Belgium, Leopold II, whose secret ambition it was to annex the region for himself.

Shinn gives each of the characters generous helpings of traumatic backstory and contrives a plot around both brothers' maltreatment of Kelly, but he fails to enlist much sympathy for any of the three.

Its anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-reproductive-rights, anti-government, anti-regulation, and pro-free-market set of elements also fails to enlist half the electorate in its story.

Under L.K. Advani, named as its prime-ministerial candidate a year ago, the BJP has failed to re-enlist several former allies, such as the TDP and has lost others.