Sentence examples for murderous failure from inspiring English sources

Srebrenica has become a metaphor for many big topics: the worst atrocity of the Bosnian war; the empty promises of a West in love with its own moralizing; the bureaucratic, murderous failure of a United Nations trying to make peace without fighting; the cowardice of Dutch troops serving with the United Nations who let Bosnian Serbs overrun Srebrenica and watched them march the men away.

In Manhattan UN diplomats and bureaucrats inhabit a privileged, pampered, junket-oriented bubble, a contributing factor to the UN's years-long record of murderous failure and moral turpitude.

This is an amazing saying: the minister is, by his nature, deceitful and murderous, and his failure to eliminate the sovereign is simply a sign of insufficient preparations, not of unwillingness to do so.

But rarely has the murderous spirit of artistic failure been presented as beautifully ominous as in Edgar G. Ulmer's Bluebeard (1944).

Military writer Ralph Peters dubs them "The New Warrior Class," a new wave of murderous brigands empowered by increasing state failure and ethnic hatreds.

But that does not mean it should never be attempted.1993 was also the year of the first attempt by al-Qaeda to blow up the World Trade Centre in New York, a failure that was followed by murderous successes in East Africa, Yemen and elsewhere, culminating in the atrocity of September 11th 2001.

"Any expert down there I trust says that's going to lead to failure … You don't get these murderous kinds of gangs in middle-class neighborhoods".

The extremist group's murderous rampages against "Western" education and the military's failure to rescue the kidnapped girls and young women have generated widespread protests in major cities in Nigeria and across the world.

After a summer of bullets and despite a poignant appearance onstage by Gabby Giffords, Obama ignored it, other headliners avoided it and our Glock-toting country went about its merry and murderous way, with a shooting spree every few months and a failure of resolve to do anything about it.

Despite the failure of the French state to catch Mohammed Merah before his murderous rampage, the events of the last few weeks have nonetheless altered the tone of the French presidential campaign, tilting it, at least for now, in favor of Nicolas Sarkozy, the incumbent who has been trailing his main rival in the polls.

This personal failure is also responsible for the gigantic social dimensions of a murderous regime.