Blabbermouths often fail to close the deal, win the capital, or get the girl.
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Schools in England will no longer be rated as "outstanding" by inspectors if they fail to close the attainment gap between poor and affluent children.
Higher taxes, however advisable or not, fail to come close to solving the problem.
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But the sight of soldiers linking arms as they struggled to close broken levees could not fail to inspire.
It calls on the government to draw up laws to close loopholes and name and shame companies that fail to pay their fair share.
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He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
The final reason businesses fail is simply that they sail too close to the wind.
Many fans were fervently wishing against it, if only to see James come so close and fail again.
This is a giant tragedy, not just because heroic workers who only want to help kids and end disease are being killed but because we may fail to completely eradicate a scourge when we are so very, very close.
Close to half of Latinos in Houston, for instance, fail to graduate from high school.
Every time lawmakers seemingly get close to a deal that will restore fiscal responsibility but instead fail, we at Vanguard hear the concerns of investors.
Greece is close to that tipping point where almost whatever new austerity measure is implemented will fail.
Even if the user experience differences weren't so jarring, the time it takes to open and close an app and the lack of truly personalized channels makes it a fail.
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