Sentence examples for failure to destroy from inspiring English sources

They reviled the government for its failure to destroy Israel, and for a too-cozy relationship with Britain and the West.

But more alarming than this failure to destroy old nuclear weapons has been the Obama administration's aggressive pursuit of new, "smaller" ones, for which the threshold of use would be lower, according to former military commanders.

Israel, a country in shock following its failure to destroy Hizbullah last summer, and humiliated by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejhad's vow to "wipe Israel off the map" - a threat backed up by Iran's support of Hamas and Hizbullah - now talks about a "quartet of moderates" as the region's only hope.

To the extent that Yasir Arafat "refused to say yes" in 2000 to President Bill Clinton's and Prime Minister Ehud Barak's peace proposals, he was emblematic of a large swath of Palestinians who failed then, and still cannot reconcile themselves not only to Israel's existence as a Jewish state but moreover to their failure to destroy Israel through a military victory time and again since 1948.

Failure to destroy the third dam, however, meant the water supply was restored to German factories within six weeks and the dams were repaired within five months.

Still, Hitler was critical of the Luftwaffe and its failure to destroy Fighter Command quickly.

Howe recognized his failure, however, to destroy the modest force of Gen. George Washington, then encamped at nearby Valley Forge.

However, it appears that Yamamoto may have been more angry over the loss of one of his battleships (Hiei) than he was over the abandonment of the supply mission and failure to completely destroy the U.S. force.

In principle, three types of target cell resistance may be distinguished: (1) failure of target cell recognition (afferent deficit); (2) failure of NK cells to destroy a recognized target (efferent deficit); and (3) apoptosis of NK cells induced by target cells (counter attack).

The public officials who made the bailout decisions during 2007-9 were forced to choose between using public funds to bail out an imprudent institution, or allowing the failure of that institution to destroy hundreds of innocent firms and the jobs of thousands of innocent workers.

The high level of internal and external contamination in chicken liver in these studies and failure of insufficient cooking to destroy the bacteria in the current outbreak suggest that internal contamination of duck liver also occurs.