Sentence examples for means have failed from inspiring English sources

Manifestly, "all other means" have failed.

And even when all non-military means have failed, armed intervention may still not be the right answer.

She sees their violence entirely as a reaction when all other means have failed, even portraying them as green egalitarian warriors fighting to preserve a pristine life.

The UK government's response to earlier requests was that "use of air drops to deliver aid is high risk and should only be considered as a last resort when all other means have failed".

It bans the threat or use of force unless authorised by the Security Council after it has determined that peaceful means have failed, or in cases of self-defence against 'armed attack' until the Security Council takes action.

Clinton administration officials have been receptive to the use of civil rights statutes in environmental causes, but filing such a complaint is considered a high-stakes tactic that is used only when other means have failed, a board member of the group said.

They had to move in the end because all constitutional means had failed to restrain a government that was behaving unconstitutionally.

You described the chaos, the danger of civil war and how the Allende government had ridden "roughshod over congress and the courts" and you concluded the army "had to move in the end because all constitutional means had failed to restrain a government that was behaving unconstitutionally" ("The end of Allende", September 15th 1973).

When they felt they couldn't wait any longer, when they laid all the arguments before an obstinate British government that they could think of, and when their arguments were absolutely disregarded, when every other means had failed, they began by the tea party at Boston, and they went on until they had won the independence of the United States of America.

It was yet another case, historian Linda Bissell wrote, of authorities using the law "to enforce obedience only when other means had failed and violations of norms were flagrant".

While these numbers suggest that a substantial proportion of the study population visited their GP with mental health problems, UMs indicated that professional medical care was only sought after other means had failed.