Sentence examples for he failed to prevent from inspiring English sources
He failed to prevent hostages being taken in Iran.
But he failed to prevent his translator friend walking into a horrible trap.
As a result, he failed to prevent McNeil's firing and put his own career in peril.
Also like them, he failed to prevent the public coffers from being robbed by corporate executives and campaign managers.
But after thinking about resigning if he failed to prevent the admission of women, General Berry said, he decided to do "what a good soldier does".
He failed to prevent the capture of the important city of Amphipolis by the Spartan general Brasidas, who launched a sudden attack in the middle of winter.
Tragically, not only did he fail to prevent the economic collapse that we have experienced, he did not even warn the American people that it was coming until it was too late.
It is notable that the court, whose three judges were all women, found Bemba guilty not because he had explicitly ordered the rapes, but because he had failed to prevent them or to stop them when he knew they were going on – or even to discipline the perpetrators afterwards.
Now, however, Obama must own up to the fact that the changes he ordered failed to prevent a tragic, consequential error.
One of his first acts as prime minister will be to better coordinate Spain's police agencies, which he said failed to prevent last week's Madrid train bombings that killed 201 people.
