• Since American businessmen badly need skilled employees, the government's inability to help more low-income workers gain those skills is a clear failure.

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  • It says the assembly government has made clear that failure to do so may result in future provision of capital funding for school improvements being withheld.

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  • Lord Warner said that "where there is clear provider failure...it seems sensible to test the market to find the best set of arrangements for replacing the failed incumbent".

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  • It is clear that continuing failure to address structural problems in Europe and Japan worries the IMF.

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  • Write-downs, as I have underscored in the past, are a clear sign of management failure.

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  • The Canadiens' failure to clear the puck from their zone led to two Buffalo goals in the opening period.

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  • Whitehead capitalised on Smith's failure to clear the danger caused by Sykes' grubber kick, stretching out to get the touchdown inches from the dead-ball line.

    BBC: Bradford Bulls 12-26 Leeds Rhinos

  • Their failure to clear the danger is indicative of the fact that Villa have not kept a clean sheet in the Premier League since 19 September.

    BBC: Burnley 1-1 Aston Villa

  • Carlos Cuellar miscued a header and Barry a volley before Boro's failure to clear Petrov's close-range shot allowed Carew to lash his drive past a despairing Jones.

    BBC: Middlesbrough 1-1 Aston Villa

  • The first came after just three minutes and their failure to clear it resulted in a decent chance for Scott Griffiths, who missed the target from 14 yards.

    BBC: Peterborough 2-2 Middlesbrough

  • Only then will the consequences of Enron's failure be clear for the firms with which it had dealings, and for the American and world financial systems as a whole.

    ECONOMIST: Enron's fall

  • He said the "current obesity epidemic in children and adults represents a clear example of market failure" with taxpayers having to pick up the bill for healthcare and other costs.

    BBC: Overweight man measuring his waist

  • The decisive third goal came minutes after the restart, when the home side's failure to clear their lines was punished by Graham, who took one touch to steady himself after collecting a through ball before shooting beyond Kenny.

    BBC: QPR 1-3 Watford

  • Their failure typically became clear very quickly: on average, they were gone within two years.

    ECONOMIST: Second-act chief executives

  • The right ones demand creating within the corporate framework a space of genuine creative chaos without clear goals, where repeated failure is a real and constant motivator.

    WSJ: The Trouble With Tinkering Time

  • Even though Kickstarter has no enforcement mechanism to prevent con artists from using the system to raise funds for fake projects, it is clear that with a direct failure rate well below 5%, founders take their obligations seriously.

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  • Mr Harvie called on the government to give clear guidance on what would constitute failure when a voluntary approach was adopted.

    BBC: Climate change targets debate

  • Particularly troubling for Merck investors is the company's failure to suggest a clear cut-off date of when a heart attack could be linked to Vioxx.

    FORBES: More Murk For Merck

  • The Communication Workers Union, which has campaigned to raise awareness of dog attacks on postal workers and telecom engineers, welcomed the report as a "strong and clear in its assessment of the failure of current laws".

    BBC: Dog attack plans 'woefully inadequate' say MPs

  • He has accepted that the time taken to clear the mess caused by the computer failure had been "unacceptable".

    BBC: RBS computer failure needs clear redress, says MP

  • It is very clear who is accountable for success or failure.

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  • In the light of Rangers' premature exit, former Ibrox defender Craig Paterson believes Kris Boyd's failure to capitalise on a clear opportunity sealed the club's fate against Stuttgart.

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  • The concrete goal of reducing child mortality by two-thirds created a clear target by which to measure success or failure.

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  • The 11 plus can be incredibly damaging to a child's esteem, because failure of the 11 plus sends a clear signal that you are just not good enough.

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  • He told the coroner's court that there had been catalogue of errors in Mr Ridd's treatment, a gross failure to provide adequate medical care and a clear connection in the way he was treated and the cause of his death.

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  • Customers affected by the computer failure at RBS in June must be given "clear and straightforward" information on compensation, an MP has said.

    BBC: RBS computer failure needs clear redress, says MP

  • 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.

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  • As the Center's new web ad makes clear, we have no choice but to prevail - and the American people require now more than ever clear, convincing and steady leadership about the consequences of our failure to do so.

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  • CLINTON'S STATEMENT makes clear the basic and disturbing consistency of the administration's failure to understand that there are regimes that are inherently hostile to the US and will remain irreconcilably hostile to the US regardless of what it does or who sits in the White House.

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  • Since Rice's approach to reaching just such an accord has been to apply unrelenting pressure on Israel, it is fairly clear that she will blame Israel for the conference's preordained failure and cause a further deterioration in US-Israeli relations.

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