Sentence examples for fails to oblige from inspiring English sources

Fate, once tempted, rarely fails to oblige.

But if Guillermoprieto fails to oblige on this score she does so deliberately, with a higher purpose in mind.

The townspeople failed to oblige.

Parliament has failed to oblige.

The Dons, though, failed to oblige.

So far, British shoppers have failed to oblige.

Despite recurring predictions that she would fade from the political scene, she has failed to oblige.

Theatergoers generally expect actors to abide by certain longstanding conventions, and if actors fail to oblige, it usually isn't intentional.

Mr Bolchover was not a member of the brotherhood: he asked his bosses for more work and, when they failed to oblige, filled his idle hours by writing a management book.

Democrats were really hoping that Republicans would pick some frothing zealots as candidates, but so far they have failed to oblige.The only plausible pick-ups for Democrats are Georgia and Kentucky.

It's a subtropical seaside resort that has an average temperature of a little over fifty degrees Fahrenheit in the winter, and where the weather in the nearby mountains is finicky enough that Russian officials were compelled to begin stockpiling man-made snow in the event that the skies fail to oblige ahead of February.