If Spurs fail to win the league, at least it will be a glorious failure.
None of them anticipated that Labour would fail to win an overall majority in the Welsh Assembly.
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Should he try and fail to win the board's attention, he sells and moves on, analysts figure.
He has promised to negotiate first with them if his Social Democrats fail to win an absolute majority.
Parties that fail to win at least 10% of the 550 parliamentary seats up for grabs cannot contest future elections.
His supporters are hoping that she will fail to win an outright majority next week, forcing a second round of voting.
They are a point behind leaders Valencia and should they fail to win the league, Queiroz seems unlikely to keep his job.
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Republican voters perceive Mitt Romney as lacking authenticity, and should he fail to win the nomination, that will be the primary reason.
Is the former Massachusetts Governor again destined to look good in profile, but fail to win the hearts and minds of Republican voters?
The reason is a disastrous start to the season that saw the club fail to win any of its first five league games.
Fail to win the endorsement of a single major Republican office-holder.
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Michael Vaughan's men will move up to second if they beat South Africa later this summer, and India fail to win their forthcoming series in Sri Lanka.
And manager George Burley must be increasingly concerned by a run of form that has seen his side fail to win in the league since the middle of August.
Enormous fees, out of proportion to the work done or the miles flown, also pay for the dead periods between mandates, and for the bidding contests that the banks fail to win.
Before its arrival in South Africa, 'The Stallions' had sought to end a run which had seen it fail to win a single game at the tournament since it hosted the event in 1998.
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Not only did their leader, Michael Ignatieff, fail to win his seat, but they were outflanked to their left by the New Democrats (NDP), a niche party that now becomes the official opposition.
Faced with a deeply unpopular prime minister, a government riven by plots and intrigue, and the worst economic climate since the late 1940s, how on earth did David Cameron fail to win the 2010 general election?
Ron Davies, Mr Michael's predecessor as secretary of state for Wales, had been openly campaigning to become first secretary of a devolved Wales in the hope that Mr Michael would fail to win a seat in the Assembly.
More than half the Senate voted against the CTBT, and if the ABM treaty were brought to a vote today, it too would fail to win a simple majority, let alone the 88 votes it garnered 27 years ago.
The last Labour UK government introduced the ban on dual candidacy to avoid a situation where candidates could be overwhelmingly defeated in a constituency but get elected via the regional list top-up system, which compensates parties that fail to win first-past-the-post seats.
Note that each conference under this distribution system is assured of receiving at least 6 units annually (a scenario that would arise if a conference only placed one team in the tournament for 6 consecutive years, and their teams fail to win a single game).
Gloucester are one of only two teams since the competition went to six pools in 1999 to win their opening three games and fail to make the last eight.
Blabbermouths often fail to close the deal, win the capital, or get the girl.
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If its lawyers fail to prove even one of its points, Intel will win.
The first was that Miss Megawati and her coalition partners would win a substantial share of the vote, but fail to dislodge Golkar from government.
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