Sentence examples for failure to ignite from inspiring English sources

The failure to ignite him typifies the difficulty with The Monogram Murders.

The ostensible reason for Mishima's suicide was his failure to ignite a military coup, but he had been imagining his end for a long time.

But it is clear that it took a particular cocktail of political, economic and social failure to ignite the towns and cities of the north last year.

Hughes blamed technical difficulties — possibly a bad O-ring — for his steam-powered rocket's failure to ignite this weekend in the Mojave Desert.

The political stakes are high, as Democrats and Republicans wrestle over who should take credit for the progress of the jobs market, or the blame for its failure to ignite.

If the garment's failure to ignite proved reassuring in the sense that such tops are perhaps not quite as flammable as feared, it also served as a depressing metaphor for a one-time football hotbed now incapable of truly catching fire.

No surprise there; yet what is striking is the complete failure of this tinder to ignite.

The TEI was the most critical burn of the flight, as any failure of the SPS to ignite would strand the crew in lunar orbit, with little hope of escape.

Ultimately, the balance between radical production and dissipation determines the success or failure of a given kernel to ignite.

And the failure of the tax cuts to ignite jobs growth is making it more difficult for him to pose as the champion of the working man.Mr Bush is also facing a fractious Republican Party at a time when the Democrats have rejected Howard Dean's "Democratic wing of the Democratic Party" in favour of Mr Kerry's broad church.

The failure of the climate change catastrophe to ignite widescale or radical Left-wing political resistance, even on the scale of global Occupy Wall Street movement, is genuinely surprising.