Sentence examples for failed to take root from inspiring English sources

Democracy has failed to take root.

The rubber trees died and Henry Ford's Puritan values failed to take root.

Many were turned into leafy oases, while in other places, gardens failed to take root, leaving litter-strewn eyesores.

But the message about the importance of learning tolerance in the playground has failed to take root.

Perhaps this is to be the year of dramatic change, uncertainty and anxiety that failed to take root last year.

Of course, the fact that these explanations must be given over and over only shows how badly the distinction has failed to take root with the public.

Without a narrow focus, without Edinburgh, without the grouchy, slouching John Rebus, Ian Rankin's ideas fail to take root.

In the long run, "surface democracy" – people casting their votes freely on election day and choosing their government – will not survive if deep democracy fails to take root.

The West has an interest in promoting democracy and market economics in Russia, though it stands to lose much less than the Russians themselves if these concepts fail to take root.

And if unemployment continues to race higher or the stimulus fails to take root and the economy enters a deeper period of decline, many of the tentative gains in credit could come undone, analysts say.

We've seen two waves of similar tech come along, rise along an optimism curve and ultimately fail to take root in the enterprise.