Sentence examples for unable to stamp out from inspiring English sources

In office, he has spent months abroad receiving medical treatment for unspecified health problems, and has been unable to stamp out the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency.

But others said it proved that 74 years of Communist rule were unable to stamp out the tradition, which holds that a priest's blessing temporarily transforms water into the River Jordan, where Jesus Christ was baptized.

Taken together, the developments amounted to a rare breakthrough but also a sign of strain for the armed opposition, as the 18-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad appeared to settle into a protracted stalemate, with his forces having the advantage in military might, but being unable to stamp out the insurrection.

After more than two months, the battle for Libya is locked in a stalemate, with regime forces unable to stamp out pockets of resistance in the Western towns of Misrata and Zintan and both sides have dug in on Libya's eastern front.

Financial services are in general also such a morass of shady behavior as the legion of regulators prove by being unable to stamp out criminality in even the top tier of financial operators.

But she has been unable to stamp out corruption and has struggled to counter the effects of high unemployment, a loss of talent to jobs abroad, a weakening currency and one of the highest per-capita public debts in East Asia.

To stamp out?

Residents help to stamp out racial violence.

To stamp out hunger, woe and pain.

Are they there to stamp out Al Qaeda?

Sometimes the efforts to stamp out counterfeits hurt other businesses.