And, like any quest for certainty in our unpredictable world, it was doomed to failure.

His attempt ended in failure.

All our attempts failed.

They failed.

Yet this policy has failed.

The effort failed completely.

But appeasement has failed.

When it was over, the negotiators admitted failure.

Why are the experts so excitingly promoting predicting failure??

Attempts to weaken the United Nations have failed.

Still Too Big to Fail

Indeed, even beyond the political left, the Anglo American model of capitalism is deemed to have failed.

Livni may fail in several ways.

The Perils of Prophecy

On disarmament, the balloon has well and truly deflated.

Attempts to build a serious rainy day fund have failed badly.

Mazhar Khan died in September 1998 (renal failure).

The impact on governance is all too predictable.

(d) Unpredictability of forecasting

And out of that sense of failure, I remember, I would always examine the patient.

But a nationalist backlash doomed Yeltsin s efforts.

French invasions in 1795 and 1805 ended in failure.

Just as we can't predict what one molecule in a gas will do it's hopeless to predict a single molecule yet we can predict the properties of the whole gas, using thermodynamics, very accurately.

But a month long attempt to broker an inclusive government failed.

Indeed, at the beginning of the twentieth century, such efforts failed and Korea became a colony of Japan.

All attempts by London public health officials to contain the disease failed, and the plague spread rapidly.

These attempts to reinstate capitalism and reimpose imperial domination on the Cuban nation are doomed to fail.

When politicians try to fight the iron laws of economics, they lose.

Both failed, because Iran s presidents do not run the country.

Negotiations in such an atmosphere are almost fated to failure.

Today, five years later, leaders stand accused of having failed to live up to their commitments.

What it is is intelligence is defined by prediction.

And that somehow, prediction leads to intelligent behavior.

It's the same thing here. We can't predict any particular project, but the result of this whole worldwide, chaotic, unpredictable activity of competition and the evolutionary process of technology is very predictable.

Under some conditions, individual behavioral aberrations cancel one another out, making crowds more predictable than individuals.

His effort was a fiasco, remembered in Berlin to this day.

Wherever you turn, somebody is being blamed for Copenhagen s apparent looming failure.

For member states, the euro zone is simply too important to fail.

The online discussion followed a predictable flow.

(b) Breadth, stability, predictability and collectability of revenue

Committing to pledge funding in a more predictable manner

Material foreseeable risk factors

Financing for rehabilitation is unpredictable.

H. Establish clear and predictable priority rules

To make sure that national planning is substantiated by more predictable funding, we would encourage donors to make predictable multi year pledges.