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 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.

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

But they didn't believe me.

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.

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.

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.

The bankers failed this test dismally.

But they knew better.

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

But they are reacting to the current situation.

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

They are suffering huge financial losses by boycotting the courts, and yet they are determined that the Chief Justice must be reinstated.

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.

But, mostly, they don t even think about that possibility.

Even though the Japanese students apologized, they were expelled.

But they are growing increasingly brazen, all the more so when not confronted.

As they deliberate, however, more and more power is concentrated in the new caudillos.

But the police arrested and questioned them as child traffickers.

Although most Chinese in Malaysia now feel that they deserve the full rights of citizenship, they have not insisted on absolute equality.

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

The cartoonists involved have admitted they know very little about Islam.

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.

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

The ECB s policymakers are not blind, merely shortsighted.

For the past 13 years, they had given up everything and gained nothing.

But the Israelis never believed they would have to give back all the land, while the Arabs did not think they might have to offer all the peace.

Although individual foreign investors can sell the dollar securities that they own, they can only sell them to other foreign investors. As long as the US has a current account deficit, the stock of foreign owned claims on the US economy must rise.

After two years and 10,000 miles of endurance, courage, and hope against impossible odds, the Red Armies reached northwest China.

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

Voters may prefer Lopez Obrador, but they value Mexico s stability above all.

African farmers know that they need fertilizer they just can t afford it. With donor help, they can.

Although they know a lot about virology and public health, they often know next to nothing about how to talk (and listen!) to people about risks.

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.

And, while mistresses abound among the privileged classes, they do not strut publicly by their power mates sides.

They may strive to improve their performance, but often they do so for its own sake, for the sense of achievement.

But one is tempted to believe them when they add that they are now focused on diplomacy.

But they would either not see or be cynically indifferent to the problems of stagflation that would inevitably follow.

They lack the liberation from materialistic essentials that exist only in a lower class.

At this point Henry II made an offer of peace to his sons on the advice of Louis the offer was refused.

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.