Sentence examples for having failed to kill from inspiring English sources

Having failed to kill himself, Li fled.

Having failed to kill David Cameron's thirst for statutory regulation at birth, Tuesday's splenetic leader doesn't leave any doubt that this is a late warning shot against not just Miliband, but Cameron on press regulation.

It is understandable that transient feelings of shame, so-called state shame, could be experienced in relation to the suicide attempt (for having failed to cope with life, for having transgressed the social prohibition against suicide, or for having failed to kill oneself) or as a result of circumstances connected with being a psychiatric patient (cf. [ 10]).

A man on a motorbike had blown himself up but had failed to kill or injure anybody.

"Now they found themselves treated as 'traitors of the motherland' because they had failed to kill themselves".

A revised target of 58% was set but shooters have failed to kill enough badgers on any night and several night saw no kills at all.

A1 Palestinians Rally in Gaza Israel acknowledged that a strike had failed to kill its intended target, a bombmaker for Hamas.

But the army has failed to kill the Taliban leadership, igniting concerns that the militants could re-emerge under the cover of the civilian population.

Mr. Zawahiri declared in the tape that the United States' campaign in Afghanistan had failed to kill top Qaeda and Taliban leaders.

In 1955, the future of the new Salk polio vaccine was suddenly thrown into doubt when some recipients became paralyzed, apparently by a virus the vaccine maker had failed to kill.

American officials said last week that an American drone strike in Yemen last Thursday had failed to kill its target, Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Yemeni cleric who is a popular propagandist for jihadis around the world.