Sentence examples for failed to stop a from inspiring English sources

But this change failed to stop a string of new cases being launched.

They failed to stop a Raiders offense despite knowing exactly what was coming.

BRITISH protesters who attacked Prince Charles's car last December failed to stop a rise in university fees.

Property developers' lobbyists failed to stop a law limiting rent rises, which goes into effect this summer.

On the second goal, Irbe failed to stop a routine wrister while the Hurricanes had a power play.

Only a week before, NATO patrols had failed to stop a grenade attack in a Gracanica market.

The French government, with the personal involvement of President Jacques Chirac, sought but failed to stop an execution in Texas earlier in the year.

Institutional Shareholder Services, the biggest independent adviser to shareholders on corporate elections, agreed to pay a fine on Thursday to settle civil charges that it failed to stop an employee from improperly selling confidential vote data.

And an audacious hit-and-run involving an electric wheelchair remained unsolved in Wythenshawe, after pedestrians failed to stop an elderly man who knocked a two-year-old to the ground.

WASHINGTON — The security guards at a nuclear weapons plant who failed to stop an 82-year-old nun from reaching a bomb fuel storage building earlier this year were also cheating on a recertification exam, according to an internal investigation by the Department of Energy, which owns the weapons plant.

The coalition has so far failed to stop an assault on the southern port city of Aden by the Houthis and allied military units loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.