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When ghosts begin resolving realistic plays, you can be sure the playwright has failed to master his material, ... The Piano Lesson.

The reaction was somewhat muted here. But sentiment looks weak since the market has failed to return to the level where it was before the news.

The on-field officiating crew, which oversees the official game clock operated in the press box, failed to recognize that the clock was improperly reset.

You look for a pitch to hit in the outfield and get the run in. I failed to do it, ... That was our chance.

Today's cars require a new breed of automotive technician who are equipped to service computer-controlled air bags and anti-lock brakes, as readily as diagnosing and replacing a failed mechanical water pump.

Today's campaign rhetoric will do nothing to help him bridge his growing credibility gap on the economy. His speech failed to address the mystery of his own budget gap: Which taxes will he raise and which federal spending programs will he cut?

The decision to change leaders over a failed system is no substantial change.

The defendants failed to make good on many of the sales incentives. Consumers arrived at the dealerships expecting to receive the free gifts or deals, only to be told that they had to meet a host of conditions to qualify for the offers.

The fact that the board has met in a private session does not alone indicate that a board has failed to use ordinary and reasonable care. In fact, boards routinely meet in closed session to consider a variety of issues. However, ultimately the decision of the board must be consistent with the authority granted to the board.

We ought to hold hearings and learn from this experience. The system failed at the beginning on the ground, and that resulted in an unacceptable loss of life and suffering. It was an unacceptable failure.

Well I would say that in the year 2000, the country failed abysmally in the presidential election process, ... There's no doubt in my mind that Al Gore was elected president.

While Mr. Owens deserves praise for stepping into a very tough role after the firing of CEO Frank Dunn, we had been increasingly concerned about strategic drift at Nortel, ... In addition, he signally failed to deliver on a promise for greater transparency in financial reporting.

Those who wanted a change in the chancellory have failed grandiosely,

Those who wanted a change in the chancellery have failed grandiosely,

Those who tried to bring about a change in government have failed grandly,

When Obama was first proposed as a presidential candidate in 2007, the nation failed to have a meaningful debate concerning the serious constitutional issue of electing someone whose father was not a U.S. citizen.

There has been quite strong resistance around 118.20 yen and as the dollar failed to clear that line, it faced selling pressure.

There is actually a thought out there that the Korean who did test positive, tested positive because he failed to properly process a therapeutic use exemption. I don't know if that's a fact. Appeals come after the event.

There has been a huge development overnight ... the historic French Quarter, dry last night and it is now filling with water. This is water from nearby Lake Pontchartrain; the levees failed overnight.

When I served as prime minister last time, I failed to prioritize my agenda. I was eager to complete everything at once, and ended my administration in failure. After resigning, for six years I traveled across the nation simply to listen.

We knew our defense would improve, and people failed to realize that our offensive line was returning. We've laid some real eggs this season, but this week we felt like we turned a huge corner.

We're not prepared. It's the ugly truth. If our emergency response failed so badly for a Category 5 hurricane, imagine what would happen if a Category 5 viral storm hit every state.

We think the Senate has failed to meet its constitutional obligation to give notice and due process and equal protection to the voters of district 29.

We've definitely failed in our goals of playing the way we want in these games and giving ourselves a chance to win. It's plain as day. You guys watch it. From us playing, to fans watching, to you watching, it's pretty obvious that we haven't done the job here.

We've consistently failed to get an answer to that.

We've come a long way in the 10 years since we founded the company. As one of the earliest pioneers in online gaming we have been part of and important to the birth and amazing growth of this industry. It has been a very difficult and long road but we've succeeded when others failed and that success comes from having a great partnership between Rob and myself, a talented and dedicated team, great partners and a willingness to risk everything in order to succeed.

We've cleaned a lot of problems from failed sewers and septic tanks when the weather is dry,

This year, this agency has failed 26 times. This failure can no longer be an option.

To say that we've played badly and we've failed in this, this and this is normal. I believe in the national team and in the players I've got and I think that little by little they're believing in what I tell them.

We did not play our best baseball. We had some moments where we were brilliant and some moments were we failed to shine and Wild Rose took advantage.

We had a contract that was performance-based with guarantees to allow the commission to meet the consent decree. They (USF) said there would be zero overflows. They failed to have a design to produce zero overflows.

We had a chance to win the ballgame when we had the top of our lineup up, but couldn't, ... We had every chance to win but failed to put the ball in play. Jason Lane was the only one to hit the ball hard.

We had a buzzer that went out. We had a mechanical breakdown. The alarm system is tested every day. We don't know why it failed but it did.

Try to use the pronoun 'we' instead of 'you,' and speak about the intended result instead of the failed attempt.

yet another reminder that the governor has failed to provide leadership in Sacramento and work with the Legislature to get things done.

The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.

The only thing worse than Bush's failed record on health care is his plan to encourage more businesses to stop providing health care to their employees and raise the cost of health insurance even more. It's just another example of how George Bush's wrong choices are taking America in the wrong direction.

The players are really upset, they're disappointed. Others may not have expected us to get this far but, to these guys, they've failed to reach a goal and there's really no talking to them about that.

We have made promises before but we failed to execute them. We must fight like the Sony warriors that we are.

We are escalating our movement. Levin has failed to respond thus far. The installation is an effort to get information out there for students.

The president's global warming proposal appears to be another faith-based initiative. We should have faith that major corporations will line up to volunteer cuts in their carbon pollution. That approach has failed for a decade since the president's father set up the first voluntary program.

Unfortunately I failed that one. It's a lot harder than it sounds!

Unfortunately, I believe that we were uninformed because management and outside experts who reported to us failed to do their jobs and give us full, complete information.

The reason this resolution was delayed had nothing to do with anything Karl did or failed to do.

fire all directors of the security services who failed to fulfill their duties.

extraordinarily important and that I failed to fully take that into account in terms of what I view and still do as essentially as a legal process and judicial process.

failed to take the most elementary precautions against mismanagement.

failed to identify any constitutionally adequate reason for denying civil marriage to same-sex couples.

failed to give the American people a realistic assessment of where we stand today, and where we should be going.

failed to find understanding with Yushchenko's environment, with his team.

failed policies, both economically and otherwise, that have been pushing millions of his residents over the border for a better life in America.

But North Korea's betting with its strongest hand failed to spur its negotiations with North Korea, but instead worsened the crisis situation on the Korean peninsula.

The governor has failed his test of leadership and missed a historic opportunity to stand up for the basic civil rights of all Californians, ... He cannot claim to support fair and equal treatment for same-sex couples and veto the very bill that would have provided it to them.

The government has shown no evidence that he actually attended; the government has failed to prove its case. Ladies and gentlemen, you can't prove what never happened.

The Government wants to kill democracy by registering more parties while it has failed to contain hunger and insecurity.

The governments in these five countries have grossly failed to uphold the human rights of these vulnerable people.

The government has failed to show any harm to consumers as a result of Microsoft's activities.

The government flat-out failed to comply with their agreement.

turn my back on someone who has failed and is doing everything possible to turn his life around.

to discuss a history of countless failed nominations in the past 10 years which were denied hearings by the chairman or the ranking member.

We were fearful for a time that the motor may have failed permanently. If that were the case, we'd never be able to use the arm again.

We were expecting him at the training camp in Johannesburg on Monday. When he failed to turn up we started making enquiries. Initially Baron indicated that he would arrive within 24 hours. Then came the turnaround that he was not coming at all.

While they're willing to seek subpoenas for people without associations with Apple, they failed to review laptops or e-mails.

We've had some very famous people through Iowa who failed in the caucuses -- John Glenn, Ted Kennedy drew huge crowds here, but were never able to convert that into caucus support.

We've had our first test and we've failed miserably. We have spent billions of dollars in revenues to try to make our country safe and we have not made nearly enough progress.

We've had our first test, and we've failed miserably,

To stabilize the nation's public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.

We already know from experience what can happen if you lose concentration. Last season we were favourites against Liverpool in the quarter-finals and failed to reach the last four. A bad half, or even a bad 10 minutes in this competition can be fatal,

Wrestling is one of those things that you'll always feel like you've failed because it's always so individualized. Unless you get everyone through that you want, you are going to be disappointed. This was the toughest sectional in the state.

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.

To my observation, the black middle class has failed to return the expertise and sophistication and resources that they've gained in American society over the past 50 years back to the community,

There is also some confusion about how this project differs from the old, proposed conference center (that failed by referendum six years ago). And most people want to know where it would be located, and how it would be paid for.

The reason the department refused to grant the few waiver is because this organization failed to demonstrate that its request was in the public interest in that it was not likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of the operations or activities of the government.

This week the Executive had the opportunity to clamp down on this appalling situation but once again it failed to seize the opportunity. It is the citizens of Scotland that will suffer.

We gained the lead briefly in the fourth quarter, at the six-minute mark, and didn't take care of the ball and failed to come up with some key rebounds.

We cannot allow our pharmacists to take the hit for this administration's failed plan.

We want to pick a jury that will pay attention to the evidence and hold Merck to the truth. This case is really about whether drug companies have to tell the truth to the public, and Merck failed to do that.

We want to get back that good feeling that we had two years ago. It was a long summer to realize that we failed so miserably. It's nice to get back to work and give yourself and chance at redemption. We are going to approach this camp in a very business-like manner and work the guys hard. We won't be resting a lot of guys. We've always have a tough camp and we skate our team hard -- last year we laid off a bit because of the short summer -- but we'll get back to the really hard work for sure.

We just failed to execute when we had to.

We just failed to answer when they started scoring. At first, we'd respond, but then in the third quarter, they just pulled away.

Though President Obama promised during the 2008 campaign to pass the DREAM Act, he never made it a priority and failed to bring Republicans and Democrats together to do it in his first term.

You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, ''What am I afraid of?'' I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

You have to let Edmonds hit the ball. You can't walk him. Brad knows that. We were feeling pretty good, but you have to play every out. We failed to play every out tonight.

You have already failed if you need a lot of inspectors.

With seasonal flu, the response rate in healthy young adults ranges from 60 to 90 percent. We all hoped for 70 percent with this vaccine, but it wasn't to be. The next step is to give a booster to those who failed to respond, which we're already doing. Earlier studies have shown a third shot often increases immunity dramatically.

The president is claiming that he needs Congressional authority to set higher fuel economy standards for passenger cars. In reality, like Dorothy in Oz, he has had this authority all along but refused to use it. When given the chance, this administration has time and time again failed to make meaningful improvements in fuel economy.

What distinguishes Humanists from atheists is their faith in man's ability to do what God has failed to accomplish--make the world a happier abode.

What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.

What they did was they failed to produce information pertinent to the subject matter of the lawsuit, and they failed to do so repeatedly. It cost us a lot of time and an awful lot of money.

What the alleged coup failed to do, in terms of weakening the peso, the president managed to. Clearly, this is detrimental to foreign sentiment.

What's the caring thing to do? What's the compassionate thing to do? They can't help that they are against the backdrop of a failed immigration policy.

When a man walks into a bar, asks if it's a gay bar and starts shooting, there couldn't be any more glaringly obvious and enraging example that we need a uniform hate crimes law and that Congress has stubbornly failed to act.

We missed some opportunities and came away without scoring any points. We failed to gain any momentum.

We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree just because it didn't bear any figs for his breakfast; that was a disgraceful, bad-tempered thing to do, and to try and make a virtue of it by saying it was a demonstration of faith only made things worse.

The private sector is making millions each week out of its contracts on the Tube. Yet it is not only failing to deliver promised improvements but has also demonstrably failed to maintain a crucial safety system to acceptable standards.

The public policy is wrong, Government has failed to achieve proper public policy.

We felt like we were playing with house money when they failed to run home on that ball.

We changed motors for the last run. It was the motor we had in for our first run and there was a little problem then. We fixed that and the car ran well. This is sure a lot better feeling than we had two weeks ago (when the team failed to qualify at Memphis). Having more power sure makes the car work better.

We are very disappointed that brand name manufacturers have failed to keep their price increases in line with inflation and we will continue to educate our members and the public about how best to find the most affordable prescription drugs to suit their needs.

US and Iraqi leaders have failed the Iraqis.