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Paid to Fail

If it had not been for your help, my father would have failed.

In the game, players do not die or otherwise fail.

And even though that turned out to be nothing, nothing at all merely a downed weather balloon piloted by small hairless men with slits for mouths ...

No one wants the EU to fail because of its citizens disaffection.

Furthermore, it fails to encourage more South South trade.

The proposal not only failed, but also triggered a political backlash.

The world should not sit idly by as Iran s regime fails to meet these obligations.

Now, don't feel too bad about failing the first pop quiz, because everybody fails all of the pop quizzes all of the time.

As such, action by central banks will repeatedly fail to gain sufficient traction.

Communication between members of different cultures fails so often because we know too little about one another.

Only Valéry Giscard d Estaing, weakened by the long decline of Gaullism, was not.

An economic and political system that does not deliver for most citizens is one that is not sustainable in the long run.

If globalization s boosters are right, the clamor for protection will fail for lack of evidence or support.

It is accordingly not surprising that in the area of health, the patent system, with all of its distortions, has failed in so many ways.

Society provides a sense of stability and socially deprived people fail to fit within this social structure.

And it failed not only for economic reasons, but also because its internal and external behavior was based on compulsion, not consent.

Error reports include information about what a program was doing when it failed. You always have the choice to send or cancel an error report.

For now, it looks very much as if, come 2015, the world s leaders will have failed to keep their (watered down) promises.

It s relatively easy to fail on your own, but if your friends have put up real money, it s much harder.

A conference optimized to help my friend would fail, because the people everyone wants to meet are unlikely to show up.

Political slogans, however high sounding, become stale when their purveyors fail to make good on their promises.

In the episode, Bart fails four consecutive history exams and the school psychiatrist recommends that Bart repeat the fourth grade.

I hope that this approach will allow a wide consensus in the General Assembly, and that any last minute change of heart will fail.

This medicine failed in East Asia, Latin America, and elsewhere, and it will fail in Europe this time around, too.

In mechanical terms this is the operation of a product until it fails, often under stresses such as increasing vibration, temperature, and humidity.

First, macroeconomic indicators will be worse than expected, with growth failing to recover as fast the consensus expects.

However, proponents of the capabilities approach argue that income is easier to misrepresent, and moreover, fails to target the root causal factors of poverty.

Professor Lopez referred to the effectiveness of sanctions and elaborated on the conditions under which sanctions were likely to succeed or fail.

When a distribution is skewed and not symmetrical around a middle value, the mean can fail to describe properly the population and its change over time.

A US Congress engaged in political grandstanding might fail to raise the debt ceiling, triggering a technical default.

The first approach may maximize the traffic load that can be carried safely, but it fails to take most people where they want to go and is ultimately self defeating.

After the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is not surprising that this estimate did not exactly generate a groundswell of public support for military intervention in Syria.

According to Human Rights Watch, while the Middle East depends heavily on domestic workers, it fails to protect them.

Because if you're in this world, where computers are controlling what you're doing, it's going to be very critical that something can't fail on you.

A housing minister who is told to build a certain number of houses will likely fail to build an equivalent number of well connected habitat nodes.

Some researchers believe that cancer cells routinely arise and are destroyed by the healthy immune system and that cancer forms when the immune system fails to destroy them.

The alternator syntax allows a series of items to be generated in sequence until one fails can generate 1 , hello , and 5 if x is less than 5.

3. There is not one universal model of best practice, since what works well in one country may not work in another with very different cultures and traditions.

WARSAW Had the August 1991 putsch against Mikhail Gorbachev not failed, the riots and death recently seen in Xinjiang could have been taking place in Russia.

The fear is that OPEC exports will decline at a time when the leaders of the major consuming countries fail to deliver the promised green economies.

Finally, there is the argument that Chinese FDI fails to transfer technologies and skills to local businesses what economists refer to as positive spillovers.

Only one German bank, the notoriously mismanaged Hypo Real Estate, which had already required massive state help, failed.

As a result, any reform of regulation and supervision will fail to control bubbles and excesses unless several other fundamental aspects of the financial system are changed.