Sentence examples for failure to crush from inspiring English sources

The failure to crush the insurgency in central Iraq has puzzled American commanders.

President Lincoln was "deeply grieved" over Meade's failure to crush Lee's army while he had the chance.

Israel's failure to crush Hizbollah in Lebanon or to liberate its captured soldiers by force, whether in Gaza or in Lebanon, also helped Hamas.

It is worth noting, however, that a quarter of McClellan's infantrymen were new recruits, putting his failure to crush the invader in a somewhat different light.

In a report two years ago, L. Paul Bremmer, a former diplomat appointed to lead a Congressional inquiry into world terrorism, suggested that the State Department impose sanctions against Greece for its failure to crush November 17.

The attacks on coalition troops, and the sabotage of oil pipelines, are daily proof of the failure to crush or contain the resistance.Even so, Iraq is a far more ordered place than it was two months ago.

Furthermore, a composite beam may suffer a premature failure due to crushing failure in the concrete slab even before the plastic stress is fully developed in the steel section.

In addition, failure mode of the deep beam changes from shear failure to concrete crushing due to compressive stress at the top corners of RC beams as shear span-to-depth ratio decreases.

The numerical results predicted a trigger geometry that marks the transition from catastrophic buckling failure to progressive crushing and showed that there is not an apparent trend between the aspect ratio of the panels and their specific energy absorption.

The goodwill that flowed so freely eight years ago has mostly disappeared, drained away by the failure to rebuild the country, to crush the Taliban and to do so without slaughtering innocents.

Mr. James considers an episode in which a 1973 Cadillac hearse was supposed to be converted into a machine to crush cars a failure.