A greater dilemma will emerge if the muddle through strategy does not seem to be working.

My plan did not succeed.

This strategy has not worked and will not work.

But Western sanctions have not worked, either.

So, unless macro pru works as planned, policymakers are damned if they do and damned if they don t.

Trickle down economics almost never works, and it is no more likely to work this time.

If you are to succeed in the exam, you must study hard.

All that has been achieved will be jeopardized, however, if the Congolese transition is not completed by the 30 June 2006 deadline.

That's Jude Law and some of his films recently didn't work.

Mbeki s quiet diplomacy has not succeeded.

One shudders to think what will happen if Europe does not pull out of its current funk. Certainly, Europe would lose traction as a badly needed counterweight to the US in world economic policy.

The government has announced that these measures, which work (if they do work) by lowering interest rates, are temporary.

But it did not remove America's vulnerability to terrorism.

These theories, however, fail to reflect local realities.

But her words did little soothing.

That attempt never generated much trading volume.

Nuclear disarmament could succeed only if it was universal.

That expanded presence is needed whether or not the Abuja talks succeed.

Still, the politics of resentment works best when it can tap into real fears.

Such fads have not succeeded in significantly reducing poverty.

But Egypt s divided government has not established a correspondingly coherent policy.

The French Revolution never actually ended the privileges of France s ruling elites.

The main lesson seems to be that natural abundance may support democracy and development only when they are not in the hands of bureaucrats or caudillos.

No country of China s size and diversity has ever done so.

In any case, it only ever worked for the larger states.

First and foremost, targeted sanctions did not, in fact, really work with North Korea.

First, what happens if politics does not trump economics, and Obama s policies don t start to produce a recovery? That is when the old political calculus may take its grim toll.

Unlike India, China has not solved the problem of political participation.

The United States and its allies cannot succeed in Afghanistan unless the Afghan government itself succeeds.

Over the last ten years, the US has not successfully addressed these four challenges.

Unlike India, China has not solved the problem of political participation.

This worked well for most pathogens, somewhat well for crafty bugs like flu, but not at all for HIV, for which humans have no natural immunity.

Its steering bodies did not function, because they were not called upon during the talks.

Then, when that gave out, I sawed the wheel axles off my spare rowing seat and used those.

Unless the economies of developing countries grow, they will remain mired in poverty.

Nor does the Treaty do enough to strengthen coordination of Europe s economic and budgetary policies.

Well, it has not worked so far, and the already sizeable stakes just got bigger.

Many of Bachchan's films during this early period did not do well, but that was about to change.

Udo Di Fabio, a renowned former judge on the court, has argued that the tribunal could even force the German government to unwind the EU treaties if it does not succeed in curbing the OMT program.

You won't have your way.

Juan Enriquez These experiments sometimes work, and it's very cool when they do.

As a result, the CDO market did not so much spread risk as it shifted and hid it.

Unfortunately, the US government has not kept up.

Despite its popularity, however, Al Jazeera has not succeeded financially.

But its advice has not always brought about concrete policy action by members.