Total failure to act would have been worse.

I actually have to pay attention. Really, there's no excuse for failure.

Corruption and failure to embrace meaningful political reform have become acute shortcomings.

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

If we don't have political reform, the country will be doomed to failure.

Conflicts, confusion, and failure to achieve decentralization objectives have characterized many decentralization efforts.6

We have learned over time that failure to acknowledge the particular challenges that youth face or to involve them in devising solutions leads to failure in reducing overall poverty levels.

Their failure would have dire consequences for the entire region.

Voluntary codes of good conduct have been a dismal failure.

Market Failure and Political Failure

Many commentators have condemned the UN for the failure in Copenhagen.

Any failure to approve core funding along the lines requested would inevitably have unacceptable programmatic implications.

Rarely have I witnessed such failure by policymakers to provide a clear vision of their medium term economic vision a failure that has added to the general and unsettling sense of uncertainty.

Everyone pretended to be shocked at the failure of internationalism. But, at the same time, they were delighted to have found someone who could be blamed for the failure of the conference.

Where appropriate, adjustments have been made to account for the loss that is attributable to the failure to mitigate.

And, though US brokered peace talks with Palestine have resumed, they are likely to end in failure.

Efforts to strengthen the law have met with failure in recent years, but minor reforms seem likely.

Mitochondrial mutations can have serious consequences, including epilepsy, liver failure, diabetes, and cardiomyopathy.

The Fund s participation in the effort to rescue the eurozone may have raised its profile and gained it favor in Europe. But its failure, and the failure of its European shareholders, to adhere to its own best practices may eventually prove to have been a fatal misstep.

State party's failure to cooperate

Failure to adapt amounts to regression.

But, despite the devastating consequences implied by a failure to address these issues, we have not risen to the occasion.

Now it appears to have abandoned that claim in favor of the message that failure to cut will produce disaster.

The distress following the failure of Lehman Brothers would have been an obvious occasion.

A failure to provide the file could constitute prima facie evidence of deliberate and knowing failure to provide redress.

Finally, communication has been dreadful. Rarely have I witnessed such failure by policymakers to provide a clear vision of their medium term economic vision a failure that has added to the general and unsettling sense of uncertainty.

But until that day comes, we will have to make ideals and human failure meet somewhere in the middle.

The crisis? A failure to communicate.

Procedural issues Failure to substantiate claims

The failure of the Burundian army to intervene during the massacre raises doubts that the investigators have been unable to resolve.

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

There is no government below him to take the blame for failure, and failure is the easiest way to lose legitimacy.

Failure to do so contributed to the toll.

Procedural issues Failure to substantiate the complaint

The Thatcherite assumption, in other words, was that government failure is far more menacing to prosperity than market failure.

The Fed s failure to fulfill its responsibilities for micro level regulation has much to do with its failure to meet macro level goals.

Finance theorists have written reams on the consequences of the failure of the efficient markets hypothesis.

Other states in the region have been teetering on the brink of failure from the outset.

And you will not cause failure to Allah upon the earth . And you have not besides Allah any protector or helper .

And you will not cause failure to Allah upon the earth . And you have not besides Allah any protector or helper .

Failure to do so may result in greater impoverishment of the poorest and regression for those countries which have seen progress.

Because small banks have historically been failure prone, and have failed en masse, the Brown Vitter proposal sidesteps a major problem call it too many to fail.

Kallmann syndrome is a genetic condition where the primary symptom is a failure to start puberty or a failure to fully complete it.

America s failure to talk to Iran is as foolhardy as its decades long failure to talk with Mao s China. And the ongoing failure to talk to North Korea does not appear to be working either, as the recent shelling of South Korea demonstrates.

The UK accepts that its air dropped cluster bombs have a failure rate that is unacceptably high.