But it can be catalytic. And if we fail to use it as catalytic, we would have failed.

We tried to get him to change his mind, but couldn't.

Public opinion will always focus on our failures.

Unfortunately, we failed to deliver on that promise.

Yet, to a remarkable degree, we have failed to do so.

None of us can foresee what the consequences would be if we were to fail.

However, in placing conditionalities on expenditure, we have failed to live up to our responsibility.

To be sure, we had shown the right convictions in words, but shamefully, we had failed to act.

We have thousands of documents but a failure to speak plainly to one other.

Recent history has given us graphic evidence of what would happen if we do.

We shall have to answer to ourselves and to future generations if we fail.

If we fail, we might not have another opportunity for many years to come.

If we fail, our peoples today and in the future will not judge us kindly.

He estimated a probability that we will fail to survive the current century 50 percent.

So in wildlife rescue, as in life, we learn from each previous experience, and we learn from both our successes and our failures.

Islamic State threatens a coalition, including Mexico Thank you for the help, but we are good at screwing ourselves up

History will judge us harshly if we fail to live up to these commitments.

And, once the immediate crisis had been contained, we failed to foresee how painful its consequences would be.

If we fail, our Governments and leaders will be criticized for not following through and not being capable of facing the challenges of our time.

What this means is that we have largely failed to convert growing technological unemployment into increased voluntary leisure.

Our failure to think clearly about such matters would be amusing if the potential consequences were not so serious.

If we fail to meet the challenge, the global crisis will endanger the world for years to come.

Making matters worse, while we discarded the finer elements of our traditional culture, we failed to absorb the better aspects of modern civilization.

But today we have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we do not understand.

If we fail to settle on a new social contract between the state and the markets soon, those markets may indeed move elsewhere.

Thus, by focusing on the (arbitrary) date of 2015, we fail to perceive the fundamental change that the MDGs represent.

So, perhaps we can judge moral progress by asking how well we have done in combating racism and sexism.

It is a test of wills and it will be won or lost in the court of global public opinion.

We have thousands of documents but a failure to speak plainly to one other. Do we want to save ourselves and our children?

But we have not been able to save the world and humankind from a protracted series of cruel and bloody wars, and in that context we have undeniably failed.

And as long as any child anywhere is paralyzed by this virus, it's a stark reminder that we are failing, as a society, to reach children with the most basic of services.

I would argue that three factors largely explain our collective failure specialization, the difficulty of forecasting, and the disengagement of much of the profession from the real world.

But it is not just the developing world of Africa, Asia and Latin America that will lose if we fail to adjust the Council to counter the multiple challenges ahead of us.

The key word for political reform of the United Nations is prudence , because our failure to reform will only create a bad image that will give ammunition to the Organization's enemies.

So I want to talk about that as an opportunity that we really have failed to engage with very well in this country and, in fact, worldwide.

Most of the information that we collected on the cholera outbreak didn't come from testing water it came from forms like this, which documented all the people we failed to help.

Morality is worst interpreted by anatomy. And if we're waiting upon a small piece of plastic to define morality, then we've already failed and ought to find a better definition.

At the same time, however, six decades after the establishment of the United Nations, we must face one another with a sense of bitter reality and say We have failed.

But what it means is that we fail to identify a greasy pocket in these proteins, into which we, like molecular locksmiths, can fashion an active, small, organic molecule or drug substance.

One principal policy failure in the run up to the crisis was a lack of imagination we failed to appreciate just how intricate the global economic and financial web had become.

The fact remains, however, that we have partly succeeded but also partly failed with respect to the basic principles governing relations in the international arena, the development of the underdeveloped, and armed conflicts and terrorism.

Despite the advances made, the report of the Secretary General also clearly outlines our failures. The report records widespread and unacceptable patterns of violations (S 2005 72, para.

Recent history has given us graphic evidence of what would happen if we do. But any solution in Afghanistan depends on eliminating its opium.

It is time to act, because failing to act now will only perpetuate the status quo, denying hopes for more equitable representation for a large part of the world, especially the developing world.

None of us could justly claim that our failure as the United Nations to take specific decisions on these matters served to enhance global security in the face of the threat of weapons of mass destruction.