To be sure, Romney and Ryan have failed to provide specifics about how they would reduce the fiscal deficit, relying on trust me assertions.

But we have not been able to save the world and humankind from a protracted series of cruel and bloody wars, and in that context we have undeniably failed.

Those rich countries are failing woefully to meet their own solemnly declared targets of ODA amounting to 0.7 per cent of their gross domestic product.

But both the international community and Iran failed to follow through, and now that opportunity has increasingly become moot as Iranian engineers gain confidence in their handiwork.

It is too early to praise the deal as an historic achievement, but it is also far too soon to peg it as a failure, or to suggest that better negotiators somehow could have done a better job of wrangling concessions from their Iranian counterparts.

As to the allegation that the judges failure to ensure a positive outcome for Royal may have resulted in a failure to prolong their appointment thereby losing their fees, the State party highlights the fact that the author did not make this submission in the domestic proceedings.