Sentence examples for failed to vanquish from inspiring English sources

That course of antibiotics was the first of many rounds that failed to vanquish his headache; corticosteroids did nothing, either.

Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned that if airstrikes failed to vanquish the militants, he would recommend it to the president.

Al Qaeda, which the C.I.A. and the military had failed to vanquish in Afghanistan, was reconstituting itself there, as well as in Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, and North Africa.

And now, when those people finally rise up, paying with their lives to remove a government that several western campaigns have failed to vanquish, the moral market seems to be closed.

But with domestic US political acrimony swirling over the rise of the Islamic State (Isis) after the 2011 US withdrawal from Iraq, the accord is also a hedge against the resurgence of the Taliban and a recognition that 13 years of bloody, expensive war have failed to vanquish the insurgency.

This is not the old secular elite of westernised Turks, although it includes them, but a wider and still amorphous liberal grouping which Mr Erdogan met and failed to vanquish, except in the immediate physical sense, during the protests over Gezi Park.

The promises of religion are replaced by the promise of science, yet medicine fails to vanquish its ultimate foe, instead rendering death more obscure, a matter for procrastination.

Unlike the many who are corrupted by power and privilege, Azdak, for all his determination, fails to vanquish the little sprig of goodness still blooming in his gleefully rotted soul.

Failing to vanquish fellow former world champion Allakhverdiev in a scheduled 12-round match to fill the vacant WBA super lightweight title would breed a bigger problem, and put Broner's once-promising career at a crossroads.

If this was an occasion that failed to anoint or vanquish a Premier League champion, then at least it announced the commencement of a title-race-proper; an exhibition of football and the weird things that time can do to it that you could happily live inside, where at the end the biggest shame wasn't that either team had to lose, but that the game had to finish at all.

What he fails to clarify is why Nuremberg vanquished the Nazis and gave the world a modern template for dealing with genocide, but was then rarely repeated.