Sentence examples for failed to retake from inspiring English sources

The Syrian Army has so far failed to retake Qaryatain, where Isis has demolished the St Elian monastery, parts of which were 1,500 years old.

The Union army – led by black troops from the 54th Massachusetts regiment – failed to retake the fort, and the Confederate army won the battle.

Today, by contrast, Republicans are coming off an election in which they failed to retake the presidency despite a weak economy, failed to retake the Senate even though far more Democratic than Republican seats were at risk, and held the House only through a combination of gerrymandering and the vagaries of districting.

It was only after the Democrats failed to retake the House in 1996 and polling continued to show huge public support for balancing the budget that President Clinton came to the table and signed the 1997 balanced-budget agreement.

The government has sent reinforcements but so far they have failed to retake the town.As the economy falters and unrest threatens to descend into tribal mayhem, many Yemenis fear that angry and hungry people may join groups involved in hijacking, bank robberies and arms- and drug-smuggling, as well as jihadist outfits seeking to bring down the government and impose sharia law.

After prompting some discussion that she might retire after Democrats failed to retake the House in November, Ms. Pelosi, who served as the first female speaker from 2007 to 2011, gave no impression that she is winding down as she enthusiastically gamed out the policy that will figure into the coming months as well as the politics.

Democrats fail to retake control of the Senate after big losses on election night Trump captured 48% of the popular vote – or 58,909,579 votes to Clinton's 58,864,093, according to current tallies.

But when he finished third, excluded from the two-candidate runoff, he threw his support to Mr. Yeltsin and thus ensured that the Kremlin's Communist opposition would fail to retake power.

Democrats will pick up seats in the House, but they will fail to retake the chamber.

The piece concludes that if Republicans fail to retake the Senate in November, "their rump kamikaze caucus" will be to blame.

The French, coming that time from Guadeloupe, failed to again retake the island in 1795.