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I believe that this budget has failed to deal with the single most important issue facing this country. And as a result, everything contained in this Budget, and all of the discussions we embark upon are really moot.

I believe that if you hold any team in the NFL to nine points, that's exceptional. But still our expectations for each other are so high that I feel we failed each other. We went back to the drawing board and we're just getting ready for Detroit.

I am very disappointed that the commission failed to take into account the amount of information that we provided them and the quality, experience and expertise of the Air National Guard personnel who have served our country in Ohio and in many combat operations. They have flown thousands of C-130 combat hours for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom and have received hundreds of Air Medals. They are truly American heroes, and the commission made the wrong decision.

I am very disappointed in the commission's decision, not only in their failure to take these installations off the list, but because in their decisions they failed even to address the arguments Missouri made on a bipartisan basis, ... The St. Louis region, especially the men and women whose jobs are on the line, deserved better.

CBS failed with David Lee Roth and they can't afford to take any more chances.

But there seems to be the impression that without Milosevic, Karadzic and Mladic in custody, the tribunal has somehow failed in its mission.

But the problems that called forth that effort have not failed and it is time to try again but in a different way.

But all, the world's coarse thumb / And finger failed to plumb, / So passed in making up the main account.

Based on (Wright's) determination that Jones failed to show any adverse job impact to her, whether Clinton had a sexual affair with Lewinsky is irrelevant.

Based on this report, the choice is either for pensioners to lose over $100-billion in promised retirement benefits or for taxpayers to get slapped with a $100-billion bill for failed private pension plans. Neither is acceptable.

I have always voted every time I could get to the polls. I failed in that regard.

I hate we put the defense in a bind like we did. The opportunities were there. We just failed to punch it in.

I felt like I had failed it, like I let it down.

I find it reprehensible considering he (Goss) failed to carry out adequate oversight when he sat on the House intelligence committee.

I feel personally like I failed in my mission here. After speaking to a bunch of guys on the team I think that's the sentiment. We failed a good guy and a good coach. He asked us to take this and use it however we can to get better, to get closer as a tam and to get more determined.

If Chris can find a message and draw a sharp contrast, he can pull off a win. He needs to build a coalition of Democrats, independents and moderate Republicans who are fed up with the failed leadership, but it can be done.

I can tell you with great certainty that a censure resolution would have failed in the House,

I found talking to the young failed suicide bomber the most unsettling and depressing - that there could be that much hatred and ignorance.

Given the history of Pakistan's nuclear program, these figures will certainly raise a few eyebrows. Pakistan struggled unsuccessfully for decades to develop nuclear weapons, and half of their devices failed to go off in their 1998 tests, which created the impression they were still battling to perfect the technology. Pakistan's nuclear program is generally assumed to be heavily dependent on Chinese assistance, and it sounds a little far-fetched that Beijing would allow them to develop a nuclear program on that scale.

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

Four years ago was a surprise to everybody, and it was because we Democrats ran two candidates who hated each other, wouldn't campaign together, and the non-incumbent failed to do the work necessary to win. I regard it as a fluke.

From age 16 on, I found school boring and failed A-level Physics at my first attempt. This was necessary for university entrance, and so I stayed an extra year to repeat it. This time, I did splendidly and was admitted to Sheffield University, my first choice because of their excellent Chemistry Department.

From a technical perspective the Australian dollar has failed to break 75.80 cents, which would have otherwise signaled the end of its downward trend. The Australian dollar's downward trend is still in place.

If anything, the films that succeeded this summer and the films that failed have emboldened me and filmmakers who share my sensibility that we don't want to just churn out the same old thing,

If a student failed a course and couldn't graduate with their friends, they often opt not to come back and complete the course they failed. We should have three students graduate with their class, so it's helping our dropout rate.

If a salesman has failed to follow up on his leads, the executive in charge of sales can reassign any customer to his or her favorite sales rep right on the dashboard.

I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They may call you bi-ignorant because you can't speak any language.

I failed to recognize how important it was to elevate a matter of such gravity to the highest levels, including the president and the members of Congress,

I failed to convince President Nixon that morning and the rest, as they say, is history.

If Black folks want to blame someone for this tragedy they only need to look in the mirror. Mayor Nagin has blamed everyone else except himself. The Mayor failed in his duty to evacuate and protect the people of New Orleans. Our prayers go out to the families of the deceased. Hopefully this will help Black people realize the folly of depending on the government or leaders and serve as a notice to avert future tragedies in other cities.

From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they're almost always failed government policies.

From the outset, Iraqi forces understood that if they failed to stand for national unity, the country would slip into anarchy. And so they stood their ground and defended their democracy.

For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution.

If we were going to fail, we would've failed by now. We are about to celebrate our fourth anniversary on Oct. 7 and we are starting to plan events for next year, when we have our fifth anniversary. We're here for the long term. We're financially stable.

If those technologies have economic merit, no subsidy is necessary. If they don't, no subsidy will provide it. Those subsidies have failed to produce economic energy in the past, and there is little reason to expect that they will do so in the future.

If this was orchestrated by the hard left in a desperate attempt to derail this nomination, they have failed miserably. It's embarrassing.

If that integration is left to the customer, I think that we have failed the customer.

If the idea of the borough was to make the workers disappear, that failed completely. We now have the workers in downtown in many corners.

He was attacking all the way and caught me off-guard. I failed in my effort to get back into the match, but hope to make up for the missed chance next year.

He was a reflection of what was going on. The poem 'Howl' was a howl against the hypocrisy and silence of the generations of the 1950s -- of the people who failed to perform their function as real elders.

He has never failed to win a primary election without 75 or 80 percent of the vote.

He has been doing so at regular intervals and has miserably failed every time.

He has failed to give us peace; he has failed to give us security,

He has failed completely to manage the process effectively. He has shown a glaring inability to comprehend the nature and significance of the task he is asked to perform.

He has earned a reputation as a great wrestler and now people seem to root for his opponent who is almost always the underdog. The gym was quite loud on Friday in Dayton when he failed to pin his opponents, even though both of those wins were very lopsided. I guess it just goes with the territory.

He has presided over systemic failure, he's failed to deal with it. He cannot give the Home Office the leadership it so badly needs.

He failed to meet his obligation ... to be present on time,

He failed to comply with the conditions and was perpetrating a fraud on the court. How can people think that is the right thing to do?

He might have failed against Sri Lanka but we still believe that he has the potential to serve the country in the longer-version game. We are trying to find a solid combination -- that's why we went for the same team.

Today is the perfect moment to talk ahead of the WTO negotiations, ... The EU must break the deadlock and as of today it has failed to do so.

There is no food crisis even as we speak, ... What worries us is the fact the our crop has failed us because of the rain, of the drought, and we are not the only ones that are hit.

There is no evidence of a conspiracy ... the state failed because there is no conspiracy.

We totally failed on the software applications for it. It went to the stores and everything that sold as the hottest newest thing came back. It didn't work. It wouldn't even turn on anymore.

We took to the streets because all other methods had failed. All political parties failed us miserably on this issue.

We're obviously disappointed that we're not getting the results like we'd prefer, but fundamentally we're doing good things. We possessed the ball and attacked very well on Sunday (a 1-0 loss to Cincinnati) and we hit the crossbar once, so we had opportunities in the game, but we failed to convert our chances. We need to be more organized and execute better when we have our opportunities to score goals.

We've gone down there and failed dismally last year in a pretty hostile environment. So with that year's experience you'd like to think we go down there pretty hungry and we can win some football and make it a good, hard match.

We take full responsibility for (them) touching our quarterback and not giving LT enough chances to do what he can do once he gets past the line of scrimmage. I think we failed in that regard.

Today, I just didn't hit the shots the way I've been doing the first two days. I hit some really good ones, but I also hit some really bad ones. My wedges were awful. I had a few easy ones and I failed to convert every one of them.

What we have failed to realize is the terrorists showed us on 9/11 that we are vulnerable. And Katrina showed us here in late August and September that we are still a very vulnerable society--and the most vulnerable part of the population ends up without the lifeboat.

Here we had someone who had blatantly failed to follow the plan for the sake of cutting costs.

Here we find that the Negro has failed to re- cover from his slavish habit of berating his own and worshipping others as perfect beings.

He said he should be judged by the results he's achieved ... and according to that test, he's failed in his first year.

His polls have definitely weakened because, one, he had signed the legislative pay-raise bill last year, which was highly unpopular; and, two, he failed to deliver on his promise to lower property taxes.

History will not judge HIV/AIDS kindly... the harshest words will be reserved for how the world responded, or rather failed to respond, to the epidemic.

We may however make a few exceptions, especially for those athletes who failed to turn up at national championships because they were either ill or out of the country.

We must insist that school districts that have again failed to make academic goals make fundamental changes now, not next year,

We lost our 10 top leaders in the blast. The provincial Government failed to provide adequate security cover despite being repeated threats to our leadership.

Hurricane Katrina, the Mother Earthers say, is the result of the failed environmental policies of the Bush administration. This disaster is because the United States has not agreed to abide by the Kyoto Treaty protocols. According to those who worship the spinning dirt at the altar of Kyoto, their god, the environment, has exacted justice through Hurricane Katrina.

I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had to pull the emergency brake so obviously there was a problem. I remember them handing me my fail paper and me just bursting into tears.

He was in the school, too, and had failed the exam,

He wanted us to question why a coke headed, alcoholic who's had all of his jobs have failed but one, and whose daddy bought him into office became the President of the United States.

He could do worse than to go to Delmas to see how his own government has failed its own people in its own backyard.

He can't mention ethics because he has failed to keep his promises.

He'd be in a position where he is trying to represent a client who has failed to follow his directions.

He knows he can be awkward and irritable. But he only lets it show when he feels colleagues have failed to reach the standard of professionalism required to do the job well.

has failed to produce the goal all Americans share the recovery of endangered species.

This was a good win for us, even though our bats cooled off significantly. We failed to make some adjustments until late in the game, but we wanted to go into the vacation week at 3-0, and we accomplished that goal.

Joe Mansour put his life at risk and made enormous financial sacrifices for his country. I hope that in the end the system that until now has failed him will set circumstances right.

John Kerry seeks to distract Americans from his own failed ideas for protecting America from future attacks. John Kerry's backward-looking approach would return us to the failed policies of treating terror as a law-enforcement matter.

I think it kind of got everybody's attention when it failed and we established a new citizens committee that really stepped up and helped us pass it this time.

I think in the near future and all the way through the 2007/08 elections, the government will not take more suggestions from the pro-democracy camp since they obviously failed at the negotiations last time. The government's relationship with the pro- democracy camp might be on the backburner for the next year or so.

It appears the (attorney general) singled out these two residents to set an example but failed to carefully investigate the facts before bringing the indictment.

I think the issue of developers' influence is going to explode in the elections in Montgomery County next year, and our campaign finance laws have clearly failed to restrain their influence.

I think the index has failed to keep up with the times. There are too many companies missing.

I think where we failed ... was in not being aggressive before the storm. We knew there would be widespread flooding, but somehow we got complacent in that we never pressed our city leaders as to what their plans were. We later came to find out that they had no plans.

Labor has failed to do enough to present a courageous and coherent set of policies. We've got to outline our own vision for Australia, which I believe should include an independent foreign policy, bold social policy and economic policy that delivers prosperity for all.

I think we're going to be great. I don't think we can accept anything less than being great. If we accomplish anything less than that, I think we failed ourselves.

I think we've clearly been the catalyst that has sparked the national debate. That's been our goal, to bring national attention to the fact that the government has failed miserably to bring control to the southern border.

I think all those guys that didn't get a chance to move ... they all had solid seasons here, they could have easily went up. It wasn't so much that they failed here, was the reason they repeated, it was because, basically, the people above them didn't move up. Which is maybe a good sign for our system as far as we're getting some guys that are staying a while and can play.

I think a lot of us think we've failed when we've put the weight back on, but when this happens. you have to pay attention because you can actually learn something. You didn't fail. You just need to stay conscious and know where you went wrong and try again.

I think it's part of the business. The only thing that's bothersome is the way you approach your thought process of 'What has happened here?' You're like maybe you could do more if your name's in the trade mill. You feel like maybe you failed some people here.

I think it's right and proper for the Moderator to speak out on matters of great public interest. Too often in the recent past Moderators have failed to do so.

I think this commission should point fingers. I am not suggesting you find scapegoats, someone to hang out to dry. But there were people, people in responsible positions, who failed us on 9/11.

It is not fair that honest people who always paid their taxes were being denied a cut in income tax while those involved in the VAT scandal were given light sentences and those who failed to pay VAT in the past years were being offered an amnesty.

It is not enough for politicians to wear white bands. They had the power to turn commitment into reality in 2005 and they failed to rise fully to the challenge.

It is one year since the Court of First Instance confirmed Microsoft had to comply with the March 2004 decision. The Commission regrets Microsoft has failed to do so. We would prefer Microsoft to comply with the March 2004 decision, and not with their interpretation of that decision.

It is just very hard for us to deal with. They put the other kid in there with him, knowing his aggressiveness. Why was he placed in there? I'm so angry. The system failed my brother.

It is a simple process of replacing the failed seal, and we are confident that we will have no further problems.

Just because you have checks in the checkbook doesn't mean that you have money in the bank, and Washington has failed to understand that.