Sentence examples for failed to shatter from inspiring English sources

While women failed to shatter the highest gender barrier in US politics, women of color did achieve major milestones in Congress.

Certainly, by then people had come to take for granted the unique greatness and invincibility of the empire; even the ominous events of Aurelius' reign failed to shatter their conviction that the empire was impregnable; and the internal disturbances of the preceding reign had not given cause for much alarm.

South Koreans' concern about their economy, squeezed between high-tech Japan and low-cost China, runs so deep that renewed charges this week of ethical lapses by Mr. Lee failed to shatter their belief that it was time to elect a man considered capable of reviving the economy, pollsters said.

For ectopic SEP3 expression, curly leaves and early flowering are characteristics to be expected [ 35], while ectopic expression of FUL results in siliques that fail to shatter, because the dehiscence zone is absent [ 23, 24].

And as bond markets are getting the jitters again, promises of a return to growth this year have failed to restore shattered confidence.

He lived a productive life and died after a short painful illness that failed entirely to shatter the deep complacent faith and equanimity in which he had lived.

During the deep-depression year of 1932, while men who had once been well off were finding it difficult to sell apples, Cosey began turning out forged autographs in substantial numbers and selling them with an ease that, if it failed to restore his shattered physique, so bolstered his self-respect that he appears to have permanently renounced the life of a common criminal.

O'Brien does not omit the times when the words failed to come, when the heart shattered, when, in Singapore, on a book tour, she had very nearly had enough.

The bones in his wrist were shattered and failed to grow properly in the next few years, leaving him unable to walk on his knuckles or climb trees.

However, the mood at Aggborough was shattered when City failed to keep out Madden's near-post header from Gary McSheffrey's corner in first-half stoppage time.

One 18-year-old, whose dreams of studying politics at university were shattered after he failed to gain citizenship, told PRCBC: "It became apparent that if you weren't British… your life pretty much ended".