Sentence examples for failed to strip from inspiring English sources

The men and women who created the blues took the folk songs and hymns of the Anglo-Celtic settlers and filtered them through those aspects of their native musical culture of which their captors had failed to strip them, utterly reinventing them in the process.

Having failed to strip the feds of the authority to raid medical-marijuana clubs, advocates have instead pleaded with them not to exercise it.

"The statute expressly contemplates that many drugs 'have a useful and legitimate medical purpose and are necessary to maintain the health and general welfare of the American people,' but it includes no exception at all for any medical use of marijuana". Having failed to strip the feds of the authority to raid medical-marijuana clubs, advocates have instead pleaded with them not to exercise it.

Also, if you fail to strip enough wire for the quick connect, the wire can work itself loose over time causing all the outlets downstream to fail.

They were demanding that the Muslims be stripped of their arms and that the peacekeepers who had failed to stop the fighting be removed from the country.

In a speech to forestry workers last year, during an unprecedented, and ultimately failed, bid to strip World Heritage protection from tracts of Tasmania's forests, Abbott said: "I salute you as people who love the natural world, as people who love what Mother Nature gives us and who want to husband it for the long-term best interests of humanity".

Further, we have seen a failed attempt to strip millions of Americans of their health coverage.

Failed attempts to strip the ball cost the Buckeyes big last weekend.

Gray wrote and drew the serial until his death in 1968, after which the syndicate tried and failed to recapture the strip's spirit with several replacements.

(Mr. Morris nonetheless managed to get the bottle aboard, sneak nips in the bus bathroom, mix it with Cherry Coke in Des Moines and replenish his supply during a layover in Omaha when he failed to find a strip club).

Pastis said it was only after adding a dimwitted pig (named Pig) to the mix that United Feature Syndicate tried — and ultimately failed — to sell his strip directly to newspapers.