Sentence examples for plainly not working from inspiring English sources

In particular, the two-war scenario under which America has shaped its armed forces to fight two Gulf-sized conflicts at virtually the same time is plainly "not working", the defence secretary told Congress on June 21st.

The cost of security, especially against kidnapping (a real threat), can be prohibitive.Since the tinkering of the past ten years has plainly not worked, the government is now proposing, in one package, an unprecedented reform of the whole criminal-justice system, from the police, through the courts and prisons, to the lawyers themselves.

But it has plainly not worked, and there's nothing Ellis's father can do about it.

Except perhaps one: The medical system we have today plainly does not work.

That maxim plainly does not work in the Senate, where the Republican majority is only one vote -- when Vice President Dick Cheney is there -- and Republican senators desert their leaders on issues like taxes and campaign finance.

Even Mr Clinton has recently made some gestures towards Cuba's citizenry, if only to have its regime spit them back in his face.The stick plainly does not work: the American embargo no more promotes freedom in Cuba today than for decades past.

Whatever they have been doing thus far plainly isn't working: Trump won nine out of the 13 Super Tuesday states and is racking up key endorsements.

Greece's second review of its program with the International Monetary Fund made clear that the program is not working, although the IMF is too polite or diplomatic to state that plainly.

Yoshio Taniguchi's MoMA is a beautiful building that plainly doesn't work.

When the governor asked Fink if he could stand back, Fink responded plainly that he does not work that way.

Although plainly not the work of, say, a master of musicals like Vincente Minnelli, it was still hailed for its dancing and its production values when released in 1973.