Sentence examples for failed to forcefully from inspiring English sources

The landing at Suvla Bay took place on the night of 6 August against light opposition; but the British commander, Lieutenant General Frederick Stopford, had limited his early objectives and then failed to forcefully push his demands for an advance inland, and little more ground than the beach was seized.

For months, his opponents and Republican leaders failed to forcefully confront the pervasive racism in Trump's rhetoric and policies, in part because they coveted his supporters.

Indeed, whether on the military or civilian side, the government has failed to act forcefully on the case at every stage, the former security official said.

After missing the deadline to nominate directors to CF's board in 2009, Agrium failed to bid forcefully for CF in 2010 after waiting a year and arranging an ingenuous solution to obtain antitrust clearance.

On Friday Corbyn announced an independent review of claims of antisemitism within the Labour party, in the hope of drawing a line under accusations from some MPs that he had failed to respond forcefully enough to the issue.

Despite several position books, Mr. Cuomo's candidacy has been more skeletal than it should have been, and there have been times when he failed to stand up forcefully for his stated principles.

WASHINGTON — President Obama said Tuesday that it would be counterproductive for the United States "to be seen as meddling" in the disputed Iranian presidential election, dismissing criticism from several leading Republicans that he has failed to speak out forcefully enough on behalf of the Iranian opposition.

The force now faces widespread allegations that it failed to act quickly and forcefully enough to quell the rioting at its outset over the weekend.

Mr. Fordham's assertion about early reports raised more questions about whether Mr. Hastert and his staff had failed to respond quickly and forcefully enough to multiple warnings about the conduct of Mr. Foley, the Florida Republican who resigned from the House on Friday after being confronted with sexually explicit messages he had sent to teenage pages.

We don't serve our country -- in fact we weaken it intellectually -- if we downplay our principles or fail to speak forcefully out of some misguided sense of good manners.

Later in the debate, after another candidate, Sal F. Albanese, said that the City Council had failed to effectively oversee the Police Department, Ms. Quinn forcefully defended her record, saying that Council legislation had compelled the Police Department to report the number of stops its officers made annually.