Other treatments that aim to amplify the immune system report similar patterns--scattered amazing success stories combined with a failure on the broad stage.

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They diagnosed his diabetes combined with kidney and heart failure because he had ignored his symptoms for so long.

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South Down MP Margaret Ritchie said the failure of two water pumps, combined with heavy rain led to the flooding.

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The Israeli experience in 2006 was due primarily to a loss of traditional war-waging skills as a consequence of the protracted stability operation that the Israeli military had conducted in the Palestinian territory and the failure to recognize the need for a more traditional joint combined arms fire and maneuver approach.

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After suffering the combined trauma of seasickness and a cabin awash with sewage after a plumbing failure, Brigstocke vowed he'd "never, ever" do it again.

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Back then governments were paralysed from taking adequate action till the moment of acute disaster by a failure of imagination - they didn't really know what to do - which was combined with a belief that to bail out the banks would be to reward recklessness and greed.

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This, combined with Bolsa Familia, has made a dent on inequality, the most persistent symptom of Brazil's failure.

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