Sentence examples for the long failed from inspiring English sources

Foreign military interventions do not represent all or even most of that sum, but the long failed quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan accounted for $4 to $6 trillion in wasted cash--and that's no small contribution to the sorry financial state of the hollow American Empire.

The long fail might be over.

"Nine times out of 10, the long break fails," said Jens Voigt, a veteran competing in his 16th Tour at the age of 41. "It can be bitter or it can be glorious.

The President's statement reflects a saner and more sensible drug policy, and a step away from the decades long failed war on drugs.

The Justice Department and the Bureau of Prisons have long failed to take these duties seriously, disgracefully refusing to carry out a humane and practical law.

WITH 5.5m South Africans suffering from HIV and about 950 AIDS deaths every day, the government has long failed to do enough to fight the pandemic.

With bows, arrows, GPS trackers and camera traps, an indigenous community in northern Brazil is fighting to achieve what the government has long failed to do: halt illegal logging in their corner of the Amazon.

Local officials say the government has long failed to reverse a decision made almost 15 years ago that doomed their town.

They said that the country had long failed to bring people in high places to justice, and that those responsible for political violence and killings linked to earlier elections had escaped punishment. Louis Moreno-Ocampo, the international prosecutor, said in a telephone interview that the court's jurisdiction could be still be challenged if Kenya started its own credible proceedings.

The study has long failed to identify direct benefits from group living and, consequently, alternative explanations for their large group sizes have been sought.

Sections of the western media have long failed to expose damaging myths about the Middle East.