Sentence examples for failed to wipe from inspiring English sources

And, with that, we know that the Roman imperialist juggernaut failed to wipe out the Macedonian cultural identity.

Repeated crackdowns on the jockeys, who quickly scatter into side streets at the sight of police, failed to wipe out the profession.

The area struck today is the same one where attacks had failed to wipe out the Taliban presence earlier this week.

But the offensive failed to wipe out the rebels, and human rights groups have said that the military operations spurred the massacre of civilians, including by the government troops who were getting United Nations help.

Soon, however, it became clear that the antibiotics had failed to wipe out the bug.

"If I could live my life again and not be positive, I wouldn't want to," the 20-year-old announces, giggling at the astonishment - and disbelief - that I fail to wipe quickly enough from my face.

I write in response to the perplexing contradictions in the column by Albert Hunt ("Democrats fail to wipe slate clean," Letter from Washington, Nov. 8) and your editorial "A new leader" (Nov. 9); both articles are about the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.

Failing to wipe down a machine before you use it Are you sure the person before you wiped it down?

The thinking back then was that if the USSR sent thousands of missiles our way, they would still fail to wipe out at least one of the methods we had for launching an attack back on them.

The terrain in Belgium was not well-suited as a base of operations for further attacks on France, so Manstein felt the operation would fail to wipe out the enemy as it did in the First World War leading to only partial success and trench warfare.

It is not just that Labour was almost wiped out in Scotland, it failed to win converts in England either.