Sentence examples for failed to shape from inspiring English sources

It is admirable, I suppose, that Ms. Taylor has such ambitious matters on her mind, but she has failed to shape them into a cogent or engaging play.

Mr. Nachar said the main reason the opposition has failed to shape a transitional government so far is that it is not sure such a government would receive the international recognition and support it would need to function.

First, urban planning has failed to shape urban development in Ho Chi Minh City.

But Turkey's apparent success failed to shape the trajectory of regional political developments.

Yes, over the past five years, the responsibility to protect doctrine has failed to shape political interests and mobilise effective action to prevent tragedy in Aleppo.

This suggests that an altered level of PMv-M1 interaction, secondary to a lack of AIP outputs, led to a less accurate muscle command that failed to shape the hand optimally when grasping different objects.

Labour leaders do plan to send in government "hit squads" to take over councils which repeatedly fail to shape up.Labour says that the current compulsory-tendering regime is too rigid and bureaucratic; replacing it with a broader duty to seek best value should allow councils to create flexible new partnerships with the private sector.

If Thune is outraged about stories not appearing on trending topics – a small sidebar which has an unclear influence on web traffic, fails to shape discussion, and is buried on mobile devices – wait until he finds out about the news feed.

Even the filmmakers don't seem especially convinced on this count, since half of "Hollywoodland" involves a dead-end pseudo-noir about another hustler, a private eye named Louis Simo, whom Adrien Brody fails to shape into a character of interest despite much aggressive eyebrow raising.

By implication, more of the family fortune could be directed elsewhere if Fiat fails to shape up.The main Agnelli family holding in Fiat is in IFI, which has a direct stake of 18.1% in Fiat's ordinary shares and is also IFIL's parent, with a 54.2% interest.

We show with the use of empirical material how these factors play out differently in five Namibian communities that have been, or stand to be, affected by uranium mining, and explain how local ecologies of resistance shape, or fail to shape, the global uranium rush.