Sentence examples for more often failed from inspiring English sources

This has very little to do with what Obama and the United States have done this year — or, more often, failed to do.

This has very little to do with what Obama and the United States have done this year or, more often, failed to do.

Of course she does give us the salient facts: the improvident Melvilles, a Boston merchant family, educated and sometimes dashing; the Gansevoorts, his mother's Dutch-settler fambitiousbitious and sometimes snobby; Herman's childhood, upwardly and downwardly mobile, as his father's affairs prospered or, more often, failed.

Most significant, he wishes to prove that General Franco's repulsively vindictive dictatorship actually inspired or, more often, failed to hinder great art".Told that the topic of this book was to be Franco's influence on Spanish culture, more than one inquirer joked that a postcard might cover it," Mr Treglown writes.

After birth, severely obese women more often failed to initiate or sustain breastfeeding.

Bariatric patients showing poor "focus" during treatment more often failed to lose weight or maintain reduced weight.

Even the supposedly biological approach to weight loss — that is, diet drugs — still works (or, more often, fails to work) by affecting eating behavior, through chemicals instead of through willpower.

Comparisons to European cities, where gas costs more, often fail to account for the fact that much of Europe, unlike the United States, has viable local and long-haul public transit systems and roads designed to accommodate bicycles and other alternative forms of transportation.

For the only constant throughout his body of work -- and, it could be said, Pelecanos's ultimate protagonist -- is the setting, the disintegrating maelstrom of Washington, through which his varied characters struggle, suffer, find, and more often fail to find, redemption.

However, small events more often fail to be detected than larger ones.

Plants seeded during ecological restoration sometimes persist but more often fail to establish.