• For Verizon, a failure to complete the deal means a failure to take out an aggressive price competitor.

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  • Particularly egregious is its failure to complete a free-trade pact with Chile, a beacon of light in otherwise frightful South America.

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  • Several dissenters argued that failure to complete the recount would actually assure the unequal treatment that the court majority said is unconstitutional.

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  • Failure to complete a course of antibiotics can also give micro-organisms - which may remain after symptoms have vanished - a chance to develop resistance.

    BBC: Action on antibiotics

  • "This failure to complete the basic quality assurance checks Pearson confirmed that they had completed is deeply disturbing, " city schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said in a prepared statement.

    WSJ: Testing Firm Is Under Fire Due to Errors Scoring School Exams

  • The failure to complete that work meant the Italian central bank ordered Deutsche Bank Italia, which handles all bank card payments on Vatican territory, to deactivate its terminals on 1 January.

    BBC: Italy suspends Vatican bank card payments

  • Despite erroneous and misleading statements suggesting otherwise, the new state misdemeanor crime of willful failure to complete or carry an alien registration document is adopted verbatim from the same offense found in federal statute.

    CNN: Immigration excerpts: Obama vs. Brewer

  • Many entrepreneurs waste too much time on low-priority administrative tasks, procrastinating on higher priority but tougher tasks, resulting in last minute crises, and failure to complete the critical work that people are really expecting of them.

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  • Ms. Merkel, acknowledging the failure so far to complete the Doha Round of trade negotiations, also expressed support for a free-trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union.

    WSJ: Merkel, in Speech at Davos,

  • Especially given the councils complete failure to promptly take action over the initial snow.

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  • Influential though Habermas has been, his case for deliberative democracy is undermined by its complete failure to address a point that Hayek made on numerous occasions.

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  • The BlackBerry maker remains in last place for its complete failure to disclose to Greenpeace its GHG emissions or to set public targets for the reduction of emissions by 2015.

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  • "What we saw from them in office was at best incompetence and at worst a wilful disregard for taxpayers' money and a complete failure to understand how you do create long-term sustainable jobs in an economy, " he said.

    BBC: Government urged to 'ditch failed ideology' on cuts

  • She was from Shoreditch, sir, which is about as Cock-er-ney as it is possible to be (or was back in the 50s - now it's full of ruddy eejits in very thin jeans ashamed of their parents' wealth and exhibiting a complete failure to understand that they are the laughing stock of the rest of the London populace).

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  • Publishers claim the bar is too high when it comes to good scores, but then will view their product as a complete failure if it fails to meet the expectations that they themselves have set.

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  • Liberal Democrat education spokeswoman Jenny Randerson AM, said it was the second year in a row in which the assembly government had to make rapid changes to the budget due to a "complete failure" in planning.

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  • This could end with the complete failure of the government to create an environment where society can discuss and agree on minimal common goals.

    ECONOMIST: Letters | The

  • Unfortunately, the shingle proved to be a complete commercial failure, and, in fact, it eventually lost its UL certification, and became ILLEGAL for sale in the United States.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Summing up at the inquest Mr Ridley said the front brake suffered a "complete catastrophic failure" due to the pinch bolt "more likely than not being sufficiently tight" and causing the cantilever not to function at all.

    BBC: Kadian Harding

  • But the complete failure of the delegates to reach a consensus on updating international telecommunication laws seems to hinge primarily on the push by countries like Russia open the internet to additional UN regulation, that could cover everything from security to the assignment of addresses (something currently handled by ICANN).

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  • It is past time for the Federal Reserve and the advocates of the paper dollar to be held to account for the complete and utter failure of their grand experiment in monetary manipulation made possible by severing the final link between the dollar and gold by President Richard Nixon in 1971.

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  • While more patients are surviving such events, about two-thirds don't make complete recoveries and are vulnerable to heart failure.

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  • And for that, I think Bezos has inherited the ability to keep cool in the midst of complete corporate failure, just like Jobs.

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  • Nobody is talking about the complete failure of information security at State, leading to those cables being available to more than three MILLION people with a security clearance and SIPRnet access.

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  • The unnecessary ill-feeling that these anomalies may create becomes obvious when the Scottish plans are compared with those on offer to Wales, where the government suffered a complete failure of radical nerve, mainly for fear of worsening the Welsh Labour Party's already rancorous divisions.

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  • The Kyoto protocol, which tried to get the world's big polluters to commit themselves to cutting emissions to 1990 levels or below, was not a complete failure.

    ECONOMIST: Climate change

  • The danger is enormously exacerbated by the almost-complete failure of American officials at every level of government to acknowledge, let alone act, to prevent the Saudis' true agenda.

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  • The few patents that might matter to an Apple, Google, Amazon or Facebook ( FB) do not justify the time and money you would have to spend to get something out of a case study in complete failure like RIM.

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  • Despite all the hand-wringing from the wonkosphere, the failure to meet the deadline is in practical terms not a big deal, except insofar as it illustrates the complete incompetence of our government.

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