Sentence examples for fails to enlist from inspiring English sources

He fails to communicate any urgency, fails to make his enthusiasm contagious, fails to enlist the reader's complicity.

Shinn gives each of the characters generous helpings of traumatic backstory and contrives a plot around both brothers' maltreatment of Kelly, but he fails to enlist much sympathy for any of the three.

Its anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-reproductive-rights, anti-government, anti-regulation, and pro-free-market set of elements also fails to enlist half the electorate in its story.

Paulson failed to enlist several banks before Goldman was able to line up clients.

The pro-French patrioti ("patriots") had completely failed to enlist the support of the masses.

Either he was rejected for poor eyesight; or he failed to enlist and instead joined up as an ambulance driver.

Within a year, they were being bled by the Shiites, whom they failed to enlist as allies.

He had watched as the United States had humiliatingly failed to enlist European support for a plan to arm the Bosnian Muslims and pound the Serbs from the air.

After spending his early youth as a farmer, North at age 16 tried but failed to enlist in the Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Even as he looks to his sweetheart for some sign of tenderness — she thinks he has failed to enlist out of cowardice — his expression barely changes.

Failing to enlist British interests in the development of the Congo region, Stanley took service with the king of Belgium, Leopold II, whose secret ambition it was to annex the region for himself.