Sentence examples for failed to shake from inspiring English sources

Still, those reports failed to shake Wall Street's pessimism.

Like Sturgeon, she pointedly failed to shake his hand before walking off stage.

The independence movement that swept the continent in the 1960's failed to shake them loose.

The horsemeat scandal three years ago failed to shake up the system.

It attracts a thuggish fringe, deliberately conflates homosexuality with paedophilia, and has failed to shake off accusations of anti-Semitism.

But she has failed to shake off the charge that she represents big business (of which Peru, sadly, has little).

The result, however, can be that they fail to shake off poverty.

SIR —   The concluding fear that the NHS 'in its present form is unfixable' echoes the hypochondrasis that most British newspapers cannot fail to shake.

Phillips's temper had been percolating for almost two weeks after seeing Payton fail to shake a teammate's hand after a home run in Houston.

2000 M&S sells its remaining 38 Canadian stores after the loss-making operation fails to shake off its dowdy image.

Aisha Buhari told the BBC in an interview this week that she may not back her 73-year-old husband at the next election in Africa's most populous state if he fails to shake up his government.