Sentence examples for failed to prevent a from inspiring English sources

I'm not repping anything" — often failed to prevent a beating.

The coalition had also failed to prevent a dramatic fall in living standards, the Labour leader said.

The bank, regulators said, failed to prevent a group of traders in London from amassing the risky bet.

The reason, officials said, was that the local's elected officers had failed to prevent a major theft of money.

The bank's intervention in the much smaller market for Greek bonds failed to prevent a de facto default.

Good weather in much of the country failed to prevent a decline in sales of groceries, food and drink and leather.

It was the second time in five months that Egyptian security forces failed to prevent an attack on an embassy; the previous attack was at the Israeli Embassy.

Peter Hahn, a corporate governance expert at Cass business school, points out that over the past two decades, as non-executives have taken a pre-eminent role, they have singularly failed to prevent an explosion in executive pay.

Not a soul was on the streets of Black Rock last night as the local hero, Shane Warne, failed to prevent an English victory in the summer's epic Ashes series.

The coalition's crackdown on welfare has failed to prevent an explosion in the number of people relying on state help in recent years, with a total of five million people now claiming housing benefits.

Prohibiting narcotics has failed to prevent an increase in their use, mainly in the rich world but increasingly in emerging markets (Brazil is now the world's biggest customer of crack cocaine).