Sentence examples for failed to soften from inspiring English sources
The bombings and shellings preceding the landings failed to soften up the German gunners in the heights.
The generals also frowned on Mr Bouteflika's decision to admit a delegation from Amnesty International, a human-rights group, which failed to soften criticism of the regime.
The mood on Wall Street is part frustration (that the cut in compensation ratios, the charitable giving and so on have failed to soften hearts); part fear (over possible defections to hedge funds); and part anger (over what financiers see as the Obama administration's fanning of anti-bank sentiment).All three emotions were heightened this week.
Others, like the desperate 77-year-old retiree who shot himself outside the Greek Parliament on April 4, have turned their personal despair into dramatic public expressions of anger at the leaders who have failed to soften the blows of the crisis.
After posting 25%-a-year growth in the late 1980s with ads that featured models wearing exaggerated-shouldered suits and where-did-I-park-my-Porsche expressions, Hugo Boss failed to soften its attitude or its look for the kinder, gentler 1990s.
Some commissioners later said they voted for the tougher development standards because the county had failed to soften its pro-development stance.
In the best story, ravaging ovarian cancer fails to soften a wife's hostility to her husband or to quell his compulsion to flee.
Mr Comey's attitude has done him no harm: he is now America's deputy attorney-general.If the fate of the Fastows and Mr Waksal fails to soften hearts, consider the unfortunate rich people who the Internal Revenue Service IRSS) is pursuing for their use of "abusive" tax shelters in the 1990s.
Belfast, where the emollient narrative of the peace process often fails to soften the rough edges of the past, proves to be equally dangerous in The Final Silence (Harvill Secker, £12.99), the third of Stuart Neville's novels to feature PSNI detective inspector Jack Lennon.
And thank God for the profoundly healing medicine of the furred ones -- how their innocence, their preciousness, their sweet vulnerability never fails to soften and move us.
We identified four maturity stages: S1-failed to soften and S2- displayed partial softening (with or without ET-ethylene treatment); S3 - able to soften following ET; and S4 - able to soften without ET. Illumina sequencing and Trinity assembly generated 68,010 unigenes (mean length of 911 bp), of which 32.8 % were annotated to the RefSeq plant database.
