Sentence examples for failed to scare from inspiring English sources

In the event Congress failed to scare itself enough, which means that it reached no agreement, so the pistol might go off after all.But will it?

Even last week's terror attacks in Kenya (and a small bomb by white extremists in South Africa) failed to scare traders away.

But he failed to scare hard-man actor Ray Winstone into submission – for during their very first encounter young Winstone urinated over Kray – although he was just six months old at the time of the meeting, in 1957.

This Derby is truly wide open, with a likely favorite, Harlan's Holiday, who has failed to scare off 22 other horses vying for a spot in a starting gate that only holds 20.

Consequently, Labour's replaying of its 2005 election strategy of painting National as ideologically extreme and of harboring a secret agenda failed to scare voters into backing the incumbent.

When yelling failed to scare the bear, he challenged it to a game of fisticuffs.

It also fails to scare.

The "demographic problem" – namely, the Palestinian threat to demand "one man, one vote" and overwhelm Israel with an Arab majority between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean – is widely discussed in op-ed articles, but fails to scare Israelis.

With 8 haunted attractions including a 1 mile long hayride, and an attraction in an actual haunted 150 year old barn (I plan on investigating this further for a future piece), Frightland never fails to scare the pants right off of me.

But hopes of confirming their identities were dashed when they men failed to materialise, possibly scared off by the media attention.

Another reason British television has felt so disarmed, confused as to what it's for or where it should be going, is because of the consistent, cack-handed, interference from politicians, goaded by the press, and the rather supine and scared way the broadcasting executives have failed to fight back, too scared to face the rebuke of the press headlines.