Sentence examples for failed wholly from inspiring English sources

In all these instances, ministers failed wholly to achieve the outcome they intended; sometimes they achieved the opposite.

Several of these works were devoted to, or at least included, laudatory descriptions of Pyrrho and his philosophy; the Silloi appears to have contained some passages in this vein, but consisted largely of satirical thumbnail sketches of a wide range of other philosophers, all of whom, in Timon's estimation, failed wholly or partly to achieve the ideal outlook exemplified by Pyrrho.

The next spring, on April 4, 1769, he sent Mason the Philadelphia nonimportation resolutions with a letter declaring that it was necessary to resist the strokes of "our lordly masters" in England; that, courteous remonstrances to Parliament having failed, he wholly endorsed the resort to commercial warfare; and that as a last resort no man should scruple to use arms in defense of liberty.

As a drama it hasn't quite clicked – the emphasis is on narrative rather than character, so it often fails to wholly engage – but it feels like it has legs and warrants further viewing.

The return to growth - the one he had wholly failed to predict - was "not at all surprising".

He added: "He wholly failed to deliver".

But attempts to eliminate the supposed enemy have wholly failed.

The US has fought two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past decade in which it wholly failed to achieve its aims.

The Gallery is notable both for its gayness and for the fact that the media, at least at first, wholly failed to acknowledge this about the book.

"There need to be third country options found for those on Nauru and Manus, and in that the government has wholly failed," he said.

The panel had "wholly failed to consider" that if Blockley alone had been responsible for passing inside information, it would "not expect to see any remuneration for Mr McKeown".