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Simple sentences
The project was a complete failure.
I honestly think it's better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
Even the most carefully made plans frequently result in failure.
What is the cause of such a failure?
The failure was detected in time, thereby a disaster was prevented.
You should acknowledge your failure.
All our effort ended in failure.
The reasons for our failure are as follows.
Our attempt has proved to be a failure.
A single mistake, and you are a failure.
The manager blamed himself for the failure.
It was a complete failure.
The party was a failure.
You had better apologize to him for that failure in some way or other.
Tom attributed his failure in the exam to illness.
Far from being a failure, it was a great success.
That's the cause of his failure.
We have to conclude that the policy is a failure.
Don't set your failure down to bad luck.
You have Jim to thank for your failure.
That experiment was a failure.
You are to blame for the failure.
Movie subtitles
China's failure to exploit its advantages left the path of overseas expansion wide open for the West.
We recruited a failure.
Despite the financial influence of Count Muffat, Nana, who attempted to play a distinguished role, has just suffered a resounding failure.
What a disgrace, the operetta is a failure!
No, I have to stick around and try to make a success of something that I knew darn well was a failure from the very beginning.
I tell you, the doctors say it's a plain case of heart failure.
Failure to obey is tantamount to treason.
My success has been your failure.
Well, dear my failure, as you put it, has been my happiness.
Do you insist on making my evening a total failure?
If the state's evidence was as breathtaking as its sarcasm which I suggest is being employed to hide from the jury the failure of its own witnesses to back up its hollow case.
I don't accept failure.
My friends thought I was a failure.
You may be a high mogul to yourself, Mr. Kirby, but to me you're a failure.
I'm a failure as a journalist.
So that makes this proof of your failure, then?
A spontaneous uprising is doomed to failure!
I have to try to make a success of something that I knew darn well was a failure from the very beginning.
And I say to you, gentlemen, that this college is a failure.
There must be no thought of failure.
If the state's evidence was as breathtaking as its sarcasm which I suggest is being employed to hide from the jury the failure of its own witnesses to back up its hollow case. Hooray!
But I'm a complete failure.
Failure?
I had an engagement but now I must stay, long enough to turn failure into success.
Obviously, since mine is a failure.
This failure sits heavy in your heart.
A failure as a man, a failure as a human being even a failure as a father.
But he's in severe renal failure and can't travel to Hope Zion, so we will coordinate with St. Donald's to deliver his kidney.
Hi, all about the big bank failure!
In a word, it will be a total failure.
The trouble is, I was a failure.
I won't let you call yourself a failure, Bark.
It's just unpleasant to be reminded what a failure I am.
I'm a failure.
Oh, I'm a failure, because I haven't got a brain!
Heart failure.
Your cause is doomed to failure because it is built on the stupid persecution of innocent people.
Because of the failure of the State.. To offer proof beyond the circumstantial evidence which has convicted you.. I withhold the death penalty..
And you know, the first failure.
Hoyt City's a failure.
News and current affairs
This state of affairs represents a failure of economics and law that urgently needs to be corrected.
In a public gesture of despair, Cherkesov admitted the failure of Putin's project to reanimate Russian governance by subordinating it to the security services.
Keeping the pound does not mean that we oppose the Euro, or hope for its failure.
A Cure for Fiscal Failure?
Fortunately, their propaganda campaign has been a failure.
Growing awareness of the failure of current policies is causing social discontent, civil disorder, and political instability, with the recently concluded Italian elections and the growing popular resistance to Greek reform efforts serving as a bellwether.
Yet, in the aftermath of a balance-sheet recession in the US, and in the midst of a debt trap in Europe, that approach is doomed to failure.
BERKELEY - Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers had a good line at the International Monetary Fund meetings this year: governments, he said, are trying to treat a broken ankle when the patient is facing organ failure.
Such a massive effort will be doomed to failure, however, if Afghanistan's neighbors intervene in ways that promote economic upheaval all over again.
This failure reflects the same dynamic at work in the breakdown of global climate-change conferences in recent years: a few cynical countries, whose cooperation is needed to save the planet, fuel the madness of those bent on destroying it.
Failure would mean succumbing to a mid-air stall, with tepid forward motion giving way to a sudden loss of altitude.
Instead, it is a beacon of failure - one that contributes to global sluggishness on children's rights in the international arena.
Failure to address the deficit (and the mounting debt) will create pressures to reduce what the US spends on foreign aid, intelligence, and defense - although Republicans are more likely than Democrats to protect such spending (except for foreign aid).
It is precisely the failure to apply these values in areas such as Palestine or Iraq that has made - and can still make - countless Arabs vehemently anti-American.
But the Taliban's rapid rise in the 1990's was inextricably linked to the failure of irrigation systems.
Failure to do so would be a missed opportunity at a time when African countries must avail themselves of all available resources for poverty reduction.
And it was the foreign press that detailed the parallel failure of the United Nations, whose agents were on the ground but whose inability to call genocide by its proper name led to a comatose response.
African civil society, whose mouthpiece is the press, cannot escape some measure of reproach for its failure to urge leaders to rescue fellow Africans.
Moreover, globalization means that the US capital market's failure spreads misery around the world.
President Gul's visit does mark a watershed - either as a failure to make history, or as the beginning of a new era.
It has already faced intense criticism for its failure to get the country's fiscal house in order.
We agonize about the failure to halt the atrocities being committed almost daily in Syria.
For governments and international organizations, as with individuals, moral failure is easier to live with if we can pretend that it never happened.
Failure to do so, in the view of Goldstone's commission, should result in the Security Council referring the matter to the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Even the Copenhagen summit on climate change ended just the way China wanted: failure in its attempt to commit China, or any other industrial nation, to making significant cuts in carbon emissions, with the United States getting the blame.
Agriculture there has been damaged by the cutting of walnut, apricot, and mulberry trees for winter fuel, and by a failure to replant poplar, willow, and tamarisk - the trees that hold fragile meadows in place.