Sentence examples for failure to conquer from inspiring English sources

Our failure to conquer it in those we love (and, not incidentally, ourselves) causes us grief.

The Ottomans' failure to conquer Iran increased competition between the respective intellectual elites.

In that one, "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People," Young, a Brit, told of his failure to conquer the world of New York magazine publishing, gleefully assassinating his own character right along with pretty much everyone else's in the book (notably that of Graydon Carter, his former boss at Vanity Fair).

We find that the combinatory effect of previously known dynamics in user innovation research and science and technology studies offers a plausible explanation for the user dominance and dispersed peer innovation pattern, and manufacturers' failure to conquer the market.

The only omission in the impeccable resume of Pete Sampras is the failure to conquer the dirt at Roland Garros.

Li Yuan (who was later renamed Emperor Gaozu of Tang) rose to power after having been Duke of Tang and governor of Taiyuan during the Sui dynasty's collapse, which was caused in part by the Sui failure to conquer the Korean Peninsula during the Goguryeo Sui War.

Paradoxically, some of the staunchest metric proselytizers — the sort who derisively refer to our current system as WOMBAT Wayy of Measuring Badly in America Today) — are themselves partly responsible for the metre's failure, thus far, to conquer the United States.

She paused dramatically, allowing us to compare the failure of Beckham to conquer the US with the rise of 24-year-old Deng, a former Sudanese refugee from south London who has played at the peak of American basketball for the past five years.

Albuquerque's failure to capture Aden at the Red Sea entrance allowed the old traffic through Egypt to Venice to resume following an initial dislocation, and this continued after the Ottoman Turks conquered Egypt in 1517.

Consider the failure of a dozen different companies to conquer sepsis, an often-fatal complication in burn victims and post-operative patients.

Ever since the failure of the last Arab attempt to conquer the Byzantine capital Constantinople, regular, almost annual raids were undertaken by the Caliphate's forces into Byzantine Asia Minor.