Total failure to act would have been worse.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

In fact, most war is a failure of politics, a failure of political imagination.

I've got nightmare disorder, which is categorized if you have recurrent dreams of being pursued or declared a failure and all my dreams involve people chasing me down the street going, You're a failure.

Although 51 States have not submitted reports, 15 have submitted a letter of explanation in which the majority have described in detail the reasons for their failure.

First, the famous failure.

One failure followed another.

Overcoming the Copenhagen Failure

We have seen all too clearly in the past that countries under stress or recovering from conflict have slid back into anarchy and failure.

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

A failure in both would be disastrous even if the major emerging market countries have attained self sustaining growth.

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

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.

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 TiVo's a commercial failure.

His attempt ended in failure.

Failure is not an option.

The failure has been dramatic.

Bolivia s Crisis, Latin America s Failure

The Failure of China Bashing

The Failure of Inflation Targeting

The failure of Turkish policy

You should acknowledge your failure.

State party's failure to cooperate

Failure was not an option.

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