But this is putting a brave face on what everyone knows was an abject failure.
Yes, America's Mideast policy is an abject failure, but not for the reason that you articulate.
The chances of another go at liberalisation soon, after an abject failure, would be slim.
If self regulation is, in fact, a workable model, then why has it been such an abject failure?
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"The NC-17 rating that currently exists has been an abject failure, " he said.
For Standard Chartered PLC Chairman John Peace, Thursday began with an abject apology.
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Singling out the Football Association (FA), he accused it of an abject failure to do enough to tackle the issue.
There has been an abject failure to address competently and comprehensively the ideological nature of our Islamofascist enemies and their enablers.
Our Mideast policy, which raised expectations that Israel would effectively give up its struggle for existence, is now clearly an abject failure.
In Pakistan, many fear India has no intention of ever seriously discussing Kashmir, except perhaps one day to receive an abject admission of Pakistani defeat.
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Indonesia's adventure in East Timor has been an abject failure in every respect except one: it has been a stunning demonstration of the art of dividing to rule.
It was an abject failure, but there are mitigating circumstances.
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This skepticism, of course, comes in the wake of a financial crisis of historic proportions and abundant evidence that Sarbox has been an abject failure in cleaning up business.
But then the legal fraternity decided to move in and teach us all an abject lesson about the state of Israeli democracy as new military threats multiply by the day.
It also deserves mention that the publication of this article represents an abject, egregious failure of peer-review and editorial competence at Food and Chemical Toxicology, the journal in which it appeared.
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This really is an abject failure by Microsoft.
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It is incredibly clear that the current policy of TB control is an abject failure, so carrying on as we are is doomed to increase the size of any effective future badger cull.
With her unbridled hostility towards Israel, the EU's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton provides us with an abject lesson in what happens when a government places its emotional aspirations above its national interests.
The Revolution, it seemed, was an abject failure.
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Anything short of a ticker tape parade down the Canyon of Heroes in lower Manhattan is viewed as an abject failure in the eyes of the organization, the fans, the media and even the city of New York.
Second, no one man deserves all the blame for Labour being so much slower than the electorate to accept in the 1970s and 1980s that its policies of public ownership and high taxation had turned into an abject failure.
On the international stage, our leadership's refusal to acknowledge that Egypt had not abandoned its belligerent attitude against Israel was translated into an abject refusal to admit or deal with the fact that Egypt leads the international political war against Israel.
We have to face the fact that the old so-called conservative movement in this country is a fractured mess that over the past thirty years has been often tone deaf, behind the curve tactically, and an abject failure from a policy standpoint.
It is hardly shocking that the results would be so deeply depressing when contemplating a circumstance where every item designed to bend the cost curve in healthcare, as set out in the Affordable Care Act, turns out to be an abject failure particularly when coupled with the assumption that Congress will end each and every tax that is designed to fund the law.
Dr Whiteford described the EU's Common Fisheries Policy as an "abject failure", and criticised the fishing practices of Iceland and the Faroe Islands as "irresponsible".
Andrew Neilson, of the Howard League for Penal Reform, argued that the plans represented "an admission of the abject failure of short-term prison sentences" and that the government should make greater use of community sentences.
And the coach acknowledged afterwards that his team has much to do to avoid defeat in South Africa, not least at the hands of England, and improve on their abject performance against an Irish side who have not qualified for the World Cup.
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By stating they are an addict they clearly communicate the abject suffering and out-of-controlness of the experience.
She was an Oscar-nominated actress in the 1940s and 50s (Executive Suite, Spartacus) and she turned out to be an incredible teacher who inspired both abject fear and cult-like devotion in her students.
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