Sentence examples for threat failed from inspiring English sources

When that threat failed to materialize, it kept rates at low levels for long periods.

First, the response to Ebola as a global security threat failed to produce a comprehensive mechanism to stop the outbreak.

Though officials planned to nullify the results and have the heats rerun, the Norwegian competition, Jaffee's only serious threat, failed to return, conceding defeat.

"Tabbah's threat failed: his former associates denied that he was owed anything, and they certainly had no intention of paying the full commission for a ten-year swap that had been aborted".

Yet the expectation that Claudio Ranieri would struggle without their biggest goal threat failed to account for the influence of the majestic Riyad Mahrez, who calmed any lingering nerves by scoring a lovely, authoritative opener in Leicester's 4-0 win over Swansea City a week later.

A personal, predawn appeal from General Pavkovic, combining entreaty and threat, failed to break the rebellion at the mine, and when police moved in on Wednesday morning, Oct. 4, they backed off when faced with a growing, angry crowd of supporters of Mr. Kostunica and the strike.

Such a threat fails to satisfy this requirement not because it is too remote in time but because there is a lack of certainty it will occur.

Away from sound bite filled media interviews, well-researched studies on radicalization and the Islamist threat fail to support Mr. Wilders' assertions of a strong correlation between authentic Islam and Muslim communities on the one hand and violent extremism on the other.

However, intense but nonspecific affect such as generalized state anxiety is probably less useful for understanding public behavioral responses during most epidemics where perceived milder threat fails to arouse such affect.

Mr Leiter, Barack Obama's favourite spook, is now among those having to explain why his newish organisation, which is supposed to fuse all information on terrorist threats, failed to connect several partial warnings about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

In Italy, where I spent last spring, the police departments in Rome and Milan have been making progress in breaking up terrorist rings and plots; at the same time, I was glad to note that the United States State Department warnings about possible Easter-time threats failed to diminish the crowd that came for the papal audience in St. Peter's Square.