The bankers failed this test dismally.

They hoped (but failed) to found a model community of French exiles.

But, successive presidents since Jacques Chirac have failed to reconcile the French with politics.

Fission yields during development they were hoping to get clean bombs they didn't.

Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed.

They failed to get that vote, and early elections were called.

Mind is the seat of anger, and its expressions are mostly through the activities of the mind.

And then when they failed, they started speaking about conspiracies that emerged from Tel Aviv and Washington in order to divide the Arab world.

Positive results will persuade only those who have learned well the lessons of the 1930 s and then failed to forget them.

If they fail to act decisively, China s leadership of the future global economy will hang in the balance.

So the ruling elite engineered a coup to secure the power they had failed to win at the ballot box.

But her family and teachers failed to recognize the problem, so she received no support or professional help.

While international leaders fill the airwaves with talk of peace, they have failed to address the conflict boldly and resolutely.

Oblivious, apparently, to the dreadfulness of the situation, they failed to sound the alarm properly and did nothing to intervene.

Blinded by internecine domestic power struggles, they failed to see the great powers strategic gambits in the region.

Certainly, the vast majority of economists, investment analysts, financial firms, and regulators failed to see the growing risk.

Until now, they have failed abysmally in institutional nation building, a necessary requirement for any successful national movement.

Unfortunately, US and European politicians have failed to show similar imagination when it comes to fiscal policy.

But this is unpersuasive the siloviki have not coalesced into a coherent group and consolidated their authority at least so far. They lack a leader, have no agenda, and failed to seize power during Putin's first term.

To be sure, many Latin American leaders have tried to assuage and control Chávez, and they have all failed.

Those seen as having failed to follow Party dictates in an appropriate way face severe recrimination.

Although the situation remains precarious, for the last eight months pirates off the Horn of Africa have been unsuccessful in their attacks against merchant vessels.

But Europe s leaders have largely ignored or misunderstood its significance, and thus have failed to seize the opportunity that it represents.

On the whole, the Carthaginians managed to maintain the balance of power in Hispania despite the efforts of the Scipios, but failed to send any aid to Hannibal.

The first Spanish colonists, unable to find any gold or silver, kidnapped most of the natives to work on plantations on the island of Hispaniola.

South Korea s leaders do not have to look far to find out what will happen if they fail to address looming challenges quickly and resolutely.

At the same time, they fail to grasp that their economies are too closely interconnected for independent economic policy to work.

As a result, they have few skills that can be applied elsewhere if the job they expect fails to materialize.

At this level, the distinction between a language and a dialect is frequently considered a cultural and political question, in part because linguists have failed to agree on a clear standard.

Unfortunately, although European leaders recognize the Asian challenge, they have failed to use it as a reality test in the irresistible process of globalization and as a call to arms in social and economic terms.

But China s stance lacks meaningful bite, because its leaders fail to recognize that they no longer need to succumb to their unruly neighbor s blackmail.

Many Muslims who have been fighting for years for their countries modernization have so far failed to find a lucid response to the progressive wave of radical Islam.

Almost without exception, mainstream economists failed to foresee the crisis, and even the few who did get the logic and unfolding of events wrong.

They were men who had been contractors, or they had been building houses and they had lost their jobs after the housing boom, and they were in this group because they were failing to pay their child support.

Its troubles have not riveted world attention in recent years, probably because Burundi's rebels failed to plumb the depths of savagery seen in Rwanda and Congo.

Palestinians were so locked in their opposition to Zionism that they were unable to appreciate the Jews existential needs, just as they failed to appreciate the effects of indiscriminate acts of violence against Israeli civilians.

Fueling this violence is growing hopelessness in the absence of a diplomatic agreement. While international leaders fill the airwaves with talk of peace, they have failed to address the conflict boldly and resolutely.

Fortunately, they failed, surely in part because the American government, in cooperation with other governments, worked hard to thwart them, killing and capturing some and discouraging others.

Four of the war victors, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Italy and the Empire of Japan, gave consent for ratification, but it failed to enter into force as the French Third Republic objected to the submarine provisions of the treaty.

Regrettably, on 20 January 2005 it was announced that all national judges had failed the written evaluation test and would thus not be eligible for conversion of their appointments from probationary to career judges.

That, of course, is like testing your home s fire extinguishers against burglars. Positive results will persuade only those who have learned well the lessons of the 1930 s and then failed to forget them.

Coke's been in Africa since 1928, but most of the time they couldn't reach the distant markets, because they had a system that was a lot like in the developed world, which was a large truck rolling down the street.

So, any month you are healthy you pay them, and when you're sick you don't have to pay them because they failed at their job. They get rich when you're healthy, not sick.

Europeans remained divided on the Israeli Palestinian conflict (though to a lesser degree than in previous years), and failed to have an impact on the United Nations vote in November to upgrade Palestine s status.

But MEPs then failed to propose a plausible female alternative, leaving the ECB understaffed for weeks during the eurozone sovereign debt crisis.