Sentence examples for war fail from inspiring English sources

The interventionists (many of whom were also great supporters of that earlier war) fail to make a compelling case for potentially putting American lives at risk this time around.

Not only did Bush's war fail on its own terms, spawning terrorists across the world, while its campaign of killings, torture and kidnapping discredited Western claims to be guardians of human rights.

— Collin Paran (@CollinParan) July 30 , 2012"The war failed.

The drug war failed, merely rerouting the international drug trade it aimed to stop.

Even the allies after their total victory in the second world war failed to bring many war criminals to justice.

He said he believed that the gulf war failed to meet the criteria in St. Augustine's just-war theory.

But because we were divided and limited war failed in Vietnam, the people there now are unfree.

That is how in 1916, Woodrow Wilson's platform declaration, "He kept us out of war," failed to keep America out of World War I.

It is impossible to know how many of the 4m cluster bombs that Israel fired on Lebanon during the 2006 war failed to explode and remain a danger.

Several peace proposals during the war failed, largely because the Bosnian Serbs who controlled about 70 percent of the land by 1994 refused to concede any territory.

This attempt to foment old-style class war failed spectacularly, not least because the Labour candidate, Tamsin Dunwoody, was the third generation of Labour establishment politicians.