Total failure to act would have been worse.

I was a total failure in school, not really headed to graduate high school.

Dengism s greatest intellectual failure is its inability to account for the potential of unchecked power to nurture greed and corruption among ruling elites. Its greatest political failure is its resistance to the democratic reforms needed to constrain that power.

As its hard power ebbs, its soft power, as illustrated by the Copenhagen summit, seems to be very weak. This in part arises from a failure to provide the EU with political power.

But power, defined as the ability to influence others, comes in many guises, and soft power is not weakness. On the contrary, it is the failure to use soft power effectively that weakens America in the struggle against terrorism.

Market Failure and Political Failure

Since last year, Guodian Group has exported a total of 163 sets of wind power projects from Lianyungang Port to South Africa.

Such total surrender of power to exercise public authority on Swedish territory was, according to the Ombudsman, clearly contrary to Swedish law.

All functions return FAILURE on failure and SUCCESS on success.

But 2004 was also a bitter failure for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who tried to bring his favored presidential candidate, Viktor Yanukovych, to power in Kyiv by supporting massive vote manipulation. The failure was a bitter blow to the Kremlin, one that was neither forgiven nor forgotten.

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The Hamas victory is, first and foremost, an indication of the total failure of the traditional Palestinian leadership to create a body politic. Palestine is not yet a state, but it is already a failed one.

In a wildly entertaining discussion with Richard Saul Wurman, architect Frank Gehry gives TEDsters his take on the power of failure, his recent buildings, and the all important Then what? factor.

Europe s Greek Failure

It's a total, total mess.

So by the year 2040, the total processing of this machine will exceed a total processing power of humanity, in raw bits and stuff. And this is, I think, where Ray Kurzweil and others get this little chart saying that we're going to cross.

And the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it no one knew about it it was a complete and total failure.

Second, the country is unique in the world community since power is concentrated absolutely at the top, with total, pervasive control exercised by the State over the population.

Returns FALSE on failure.

Returns FALSE on failure.

I was a failure.

First, the famous failure.

Overcoming the Copenhagen Failure

Eight months later you may remember this, this was a total, total, total chaos.

4.8 million suffer cardiac failure.

Upon failure, FALSE is returned.

Upon failure, 1 is returned.

You should acknowledge your failure.

To leave would be failure.

But TiVo's a commercial failure.

The Failure of China Bashing

The Failure of Inflation Targeting

That experiment was a failure.

Failure was not an option.

In such situations, the great advantage of democracies is that they allow a change of rulers without a change of regime. Failure discredits only the party or coalition in power, not the entire political system.

In violation and in total contempt of international law, Israel, the occupying Power, continues to relentlessly pursue its illegal policies and practices aimed at seizing and colonizing the Palestinian land.

A failure to provide the file could constitute prima facie evidence of deliberate and knowing failure to provide redress.

In this case, Israel aspires to achieve quiet with few enough Palestinian civilian casualties to minimize international criticism. But the failure to achieve this goal is precisely where the superior power is defeated in asymmetrical conflicts.

The UN was not responsible for the failure in Copenhagen, and it should not act as if it was. It must now use its power as the world s parliament to overcome the obstructions of the few.

A C.1 60 L.28 Item 97 General and complete disarmament 11 Power draft resolution Renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons A C E F R S

In both the hostile and the celebratory use of the word, totalitarianism was intended to describe a movement that embraced all aspects of life in what purported to be a coherent philosophy of politics, economics, and society. Fascists liked to think of themselves as imbued with total knowledge and total power.

That is a huge failure rate.

TRUE on success, FALSE on failure.

TRUE on success, FALSE on failure

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