The work failed to meet their rigorous standards.
But the woman failed to turn up to court and the magistrate struck out the case.
I don't think you have changed at all! Xiao Li shouldn't have failed to recognize you.
Originally, he had set out to build an online video game, but then detoured when he failed to find investors.
The plan failed to impress Congress, particularly those members representing regions that benefit from the federal dollars NASA contracts bring.
And he failed to grasp that the only way to get Congress to support far-reaching entitlement reform is to give both sides a stake in change.
These revolutionary movements dealt heavy blows to imperialist influences in China, but they failed to deliver the nation from semi-colonialism.
We soon learned that they were deeply flawed institutions that, all too often, led us grossly astray or failed to address vital matters, global to local.
As a result, one fist remained idle while the other was tired out with fighting, and we failed to win the greatest victory possible at the time.
When they failed to repay the losses, Citizens reported their personal account as delinquent to credit bureaus, and six months after the theft threatened to foreclose on their home.
Bentsen said we should present a number of options to Congress, so that if I failed to pass one or two, I could still claim success and avoid being crippled politically.
The Pope in the letter failed to address widespread calls in Ireland for a radical restructuring of the Church, nor did he say that bishops implicated in the scandal should resign.
7. Although our political power always enjoys prestige among the people in the new liberated areas and constitutes a tremendous organizing force, we often neglected its special role or failed to bring it into play.
The prescribed medicine failed to take effect.
One day, he failed to pass an English exam.
But he failed to bounce back after the difficult chemo, remaining pale and listless.
A miscalculation would produce big inflation only if the Fed failed to see and react to it.
Opportunities for banks abound across the Pacific rim, yet Japan's bankers have mostly failed to take full advantage of them.
Accidentally slamming a door next to the sleeping baby's crib, she noticed that he had failed to react to the sound.
We began questioning the people as to where the elephant had gone and, as usual, failed to get any definite information.
Sometimes it's used as a term of scorn - the creators of the euro, we're told, were technocrats who failed to take human and cultural factors into account.
Perhaps the mock jurors refused to give up previous information not out of stubbornness or ignorance but because the experimenters failed to give them sufficient reason to change their minds.
Ministers lifted the limit on university-tuition fees-but failed to foresee the race to the top of the new scale; that has left the exchequer, which underwrites the fees, with a big liability.
When he heard what it was she wanted to know, he smiled briefly, but failed to notice her blatantly suggestive look. He drew a sigh of relief, then stood up and said indifferently, "We're relations, so I shall still be 'Uncle'."
They failed to adhere to our original agreement.
The president failed to act and his Senate never pass the bill to replace the sequester.
Despite floating various well-meaning plans to pacify the Delta, the government has failed to stop the region's unrest.
There are 14 of them, and they have failed to nab a single poacher for more than a year.
But Boeing failed to supervise its partners' work adequately and has probably ended up spending more to put things right than it ever would have saved.
To find out why so many have tried and failed to deliver my TV nirvana, I got up off the couch and hit the road to talk to technology wizards and top industry executives.
They have failed to undertake a serious restructuring: the current rescue package reduces Greece’s debt, but not by enough to give it a genuine chance of recovery (see article).
The assault lasted more than 24 hours, and although it failed to capture any of its targets, it proved that Kandahar remains as insecure as ever despite the heavy presence of U.S. and Afghan forces.
Only his sloppy communication failed to undeceive them in time.
But they failed to assess him correctly and missed signs that his brain was still functioning.
Kyp not only failed to rescue Zeth, but was the unwitting agent of his sole surviving relative's death.
Worse, no one really believed the "no bail-out" clause, which is why financial markets for too long failed to distinguish profligate governments from prudent ones.
Think of what would happen to the base-runner called safe at home-plate who said to the umpire, “Excuse me, sir, but although you missed it, I failed to touch third base.”
Yet Sotheby's also suffered an unexpected consequence of the riches on view in New York that week: a series of 20 designs for fabulous silver objects by Jacopo Strada and his workshop failed to sell.
Yet the President has conspicuously failed to groom a successor.
Setup failed to configure the server. Refer to the server error logs and setup error logs for more information.
In other words, the database failed to activate or connect because there was not enough Shared memory to meet the request.
She would write her memoirs and include in them faithful records of her association with every noble lord who failed to pay hush money to the tune of two hundred pounds.
He failed to establish his charge.
She failed to appear for the rehearsal, in flagrant violation of her contract.
Villa scored3 goals at the2006 World Cup but lost his chance of becoming top scorer when Spain failed to reach the last eight.
I was pretty fed up when everyone failed to see what we had achieved in Iraq, but an audience with the Pope, who said, "It is you who should be baptising me", soon cheered me up.
Sadly, it failed to do so in the American mortgage market.
It's even more plausible, however, that if the authors' failed to foresee something, it was not the law-breakers but the laws themselves.
The client failed to respond to the server connect message.
South Korea appears to have failed today in its first attempt to use its own rocket to send a satellite into orbit, the Korea Herald reported.
The radicals tried to overturn Johnson's veto. However, they failed to get the necessary votes.
For the Socialists, who have failed to win the presidency since francois Mitterrand's re-election in 1988, he was the saviour who would return and lead them to victory.
Swedish health officials tried and failed to cut queues by increasing direct funding for hospitals and even issued an edict requiring hospitals to cut queues for elective operations to three months.
One failed to have a good death
That is, ruled the Federal Circuit, the method 1 wasn't sufficiently tied to a machine and 2 failed to transform an article from one state to another.
Some of the staunchest humanities advocates, however, admit that they have failed to make their case effectively.
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