Sentence examples for he failed to destroy from inspiring English sources

"Reed joined with the owners in an attempt to destroy the union," Miller said, "and now he objects to being excluded from the organization he failed to destroy".

It seems he's now desperately wooing the very parliament he failed to destroy.

But they failed to destroy or damage the actual salt wells.

Duch had kept excellent records of his work; unlike nearly everyone else in the revolutionary hierarchy, he had failed to destroy them in the end.

There would be no better demonstration that although he was able to orchestrate an attack on the US that claimed the lives of 3,000 people, he utterly failed to destroy America and all that it stands for.

British historians have echoed Napoleon's criticism, judging that Centurion was at Linois's mercy and that he had failed to destroy her, in words of William Laird Clowes, because of his "half-hearted and timid action... [that] cannot but provoke censure.

He made a series of highly critical complaints of General Berroa: the general failed to destroy the English fleet; he failed to share the plunder taken from the ships burned by the English; he refused to leave any of his fleet to assist in protection of the town; and he landed only the weakest and least effective troops in a bid to avoid combat.

He argued that since the American military failed to destroy the Mahdi Army in Najaf and Sadr City during insurrections in 2004, the Americans were now using Mr. Maliki as a proxy.

Yet he recorded himself talking about his wiretaps and failed to destroy those recordings, Mr. Lally said.

The King's act failed to destroy the League, and he, in turn, was assassinated in August 1589.

During testimony at a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Martin Dempsey said he would recommend a ground troop operation to the president if the international coalition failed to destroy IS.