Sentence examples for force failed from inspiring English sources

The fledgling police force failed ignominiously (and all too publicly) to apprehend Jack the Ripper.

Her health care task force failed to deliver the promised reform.

His selection included the poem's famous closing lines: Here force failed my high fantasy; but my desire and will were moved already like a wheel revolving uniformly by the Love that moves the sun and the other stars.

Pasco police said that after "low-level force" failed to bring Zambrano-Montes under control and the deployment of a Taser had "no effect", officers fired on the suspect after his "threatening behaviour" continued.

The tribunal found that officers within the force were out to discredit Nadeem Saddique as a liar, while the force failed to properly investigate his complaints, which included a white colleague sporting an English Defence League sticker on his holster.

It found the force failed to access, and to process, relevant information appropriately and did not make the woman aware of the risks Veal presented to her and her young children.

MILITARY strategists have long understood that if brute force fails, try deception.

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Should the task force fail to agree on prison closings, the commissioner of the corrections department would be empowered to make the decisions unilaterally.

*Correction, November 4, 2009: "When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment" is published by Princeton University Press, not Current Affairs, as originally stated.

Such reasoning is widespread, but Mark Kleiman, the author of "When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment", argues that it is unwise.