Sentence examples for failing to shift from inspiring English sources

Lowlight Trying and failing to shift the debate onto tax avoidance – for that read Lord Ashcroft – but no one came out to play.

MORE than two weeks after failing to shift pro-democracy protesters with tear gas and pepper spray, police in Hong Kong have begun to step up pressure on the demonstrators to abandon their street barricades.

With 4,500 people who are down on their luck arriving each year, the town's tourist districts have become gripped by levels of "intensive deprivation", which strained public services are failing to shift.

During the election itself, when I found the dreary issues failing to shift our low opinion poll ratings, I sent a message to campaign HQ urging them to get Nick to repeat that speech.

Meanwhile, James is impressing the hell out of expectant mothers with his knowledge about the anatomical birthing bits on their undersides - but Yasmina and Ben are failing to shift a single rocking horse.

Also failing to shift were inbred birds.

Some have underperformed their peers, failing to intercept shifting consumers' needs.

Indeed, he later criticises the IPCC models for failing to simulate shifts in ocean currents.

COULD David Cameron have done anything different at Thursday night's EU summit, when he refused to sign Britain up to new EU treaty rules overseeing taxation and spending in the euro zone, after failing to secure safeguards to shift key areas of financial regulation to vote by unanimity?I was asked this question on the BBC today, and I did not come up with a good answer.

This study shows that despite the desires of its inhabitants, KGR is failing to promote this shift from extensive to a more productive intensive and integrated farming; there is insufficient land available per household to enable integration of crop farming for production of fodder on a scale sufficient to meet current herd needs, compounded by the arrival of new households.

He believes that politicians and generals remain in the mindset of industrial war, which leads them to prepare for a decisive confrontation that never happens, and he condemns them for failing to recognise the shift in the way wars are fought.