Sentence examples for failures to combat from inspiring English sources

Walls erected around the mall in the aftermath of the attack stood for months as a reminder of Kenya's failures to combat an increasingly potent terror insurgency within its borders.

India's secular democratic state is a site of contestation as it is accused by rightwing Hindu nationalists of pandering to the minorities while the progressives rightly lament its frequent failures to combat anti-minority extremism.

In the encyclical, Francis directed sharp criticism at global leaders for their failure to combat climate change.

Greece's failure to combat terrorism successfully is one of the most glaring clashes between the country and its Western partners.

Instead, his recent budget cut funding for science, research and innovation programs, while further propping up the mining industry via his failure to combat diesel fuel subsidies and his scrapping of the former Labor government's mining tax.

The centrist candidate Francois Bayrou was quick to express dismay that officials hadn't kept closer tabs on Merah, and Le Pen slammed the government's failure to combat extremists.

Once a symbol of Kenya's aspirational middle-class, Westgate has come to represent President Uhuru Kenyatta's failure to combat a growing Islamist terror threat on its own soil.

LEÓN, Mexico — The shadow of the disgraced Mexican founder of a powerful religious order darkened the visit of Pope Benedict XVI here this weekend, as former victims and authors organized news conferences to call attention to the church's failure to combat what they called a systemic culture of sexual abuse.

On the other hand, Oslo failed to meet the Israeli and Palestinian expectation of resolving their bitter conflict, primarily due to the election in 1996 of an anti-Oslo government in Israel led by Benjamin Netanyahu, and also Yasser Arafat's failure to combat Palestinian terror and extremism.

But his government has been fiercely criticized for its failure to combat Boko Haram in the north-east.

Pakistan says it is doing everything it can to fight militants on its side of the border and accuses Afghanistan of trying to shift the blame for its failure to combat the insurgency.