• Mr Usher said there had been a "collective failure in the administration over time to respond effectively to issues that were clearly there".

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  • Resolution 1441, which we lingered over so long last fall, clearly states that false statements and omissions in the declaration and a failure by Iraq at any time to comply with and cooperate fully in the implementation of this resolution shall constitute -- the facts speak for themselves --shall constitute a further material breach of its obligation.

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  • Failure to pay within that time will result in a five-year sentence of probation.

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  • Our research also indicated that 2000-2003 seems to be a time when failure fatigue had set in.

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  • Carter, in contrast, was struggling with his kicking and another miss - his fourth failure of five - in first-half injury time left the All Blacks with just a 13-9 lead at the break.

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  • While the private sector assumes responsibility for capital costs and the risks involved such as cost and time overruns in construction or failure to deliver an agreed level of service, the local authority in return commits to regular payments.

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  • Former President Bill Clinton, for example, told audiences that the reason Democrats faired so poorly in the 1994 off-year elections, when Republicans took over the House and Senate for the first time in 40 years, was his failure to pass ClintonCare.

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  • If they fail to strike a deal, post-war Germany's second grand coalition risks going down in history as a failure, for there will be little time to put things right before the end of its term.

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  • That Obama would attempt this highly unpopular transfer yet again is further symptomatic of his failure as a wartime Commander-in-Chief, shown this time through his unwillingness to use military detention -- a tool fundamental to the prosecution of a war -- despite clear authority from Congress to do so.

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  • But the biggest reason for its failure is that the technology was not deployed and utilized in an appropriate time and place.

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  • He added that it was the first time so many facilities had been affected by electrical failure at the same time since the plant was brought under control in December 2011.

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  • Once again, I apologize to you on behalf Of IMF (International Monetary Fund) for failure to pay your funds on time, which according to records in the system had been long overdue.

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  • The failure to go ahead with the London championships is the first time in the modern sporting era that a major economic power has failed to meet a promise to hold a major sports event.

    BBC: You are in: You are in: Athletics

  • That run of reaching five successive major finals - and his time in charge of Sweden - was halted by failure to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and Lagerback tendered his resignation.

    BBC: Lars Lagerback and Sven-Goran Eriksson in 2005

  • Having launched 10 companies in my life time, I have tasted both success and failure.

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  • But ever since Ghana began their journey for a World Cup spot in 1962, when they entered the qualifiers for the first time, failure had been a recurring theme - until now.

    BBC: Fans have gone wild on the streets of Ghana

  • Of course both made bad decisions but it starts with a failure of the NCAA in not giving adequate living expenses to players who work nearly full time, without real chances to make separate income.

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  • For now, the researchers have created an eight-electrode proof-of-concept bracelet, but its accuracy leaves something to be desired -- it correctly identifies its wearer only 80 to 90 percent of the time, whereas fingerprint recognition has a failure rate of less than 1 in 1, 000.

    ENGADGET: Researchers use bioimpedance as a biometric, let health monitor devices know who you are

  • "It just sticks in my craw every time I hear them say it's an intelligence failure, " Drumheller told CBS' Ed Bradley.

    CNN: Ex-CIA official: WMD evidence ignored

  • That's how much a Florida jury awarded financier and Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman last month after the judge, enraged by Morgan's repeated failure to produce electronic evidence on time, ordered jurors to assume Morgan had helped defraud Perelman in client Sunbeam Corp.

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  • These changes seem to have resulted in a reduction in organ availability, according to the World Health Organization's Dr. Luc Noel, and they may have contributed to the failure of Kevin Scott's family ( click here for story) to get a liver in time to save him.

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  • But last time AAPL retested its 50-day in March, it saw a push-through failure.

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  • What they totally lacked was creativity in developing new financial systems that enhanced the status quo at the time and prevented the catastrophic failure of global monetary system.

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  • Every time military practitioners have looked at that in our history, we've always had failure or close to it, and so you have to deal with this issue.

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  • Across Europe and in America, changes in banking law are being put in place which will make it easier to force bank creditors to share the pain of a failure next time.

    ECONOMIST: Restructuring banks

  • Full-time employees have a vested interest in your company, both in terms of the time they devote and the quality of their work because they share in the success and failure of the company.

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  • Mercedes' Nico Rosberg, who set the fastest time in first and second qualifying sessions, retired on lap 27 due to an electrical failure, while Sauber driver Nico Hulkenberg did not even start the race due to a fuel-system problem.

    NPR: Lotus' Raikkonen Wins F1's Australian GP

  • Second, because they spend too much time trying to gain access to government incentives, would-be entrepreneurs spend too little time in studying the market for new products that will ultimately determine the success or the failure of the company.

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  • Traders bought and sold 'future' contracts - an agreement to buy coffee, say, in three months time at a certain price - protecting themselves from the worry that a crop failure might drive up the price of coffee in the intervening months.

    BBC: Hedging - a rough guide

  • The president of Birkbeck, University of London, says higher fees and a failure to communicate new rights to government loans for part-time students has led to a 40% drop in England.

    BBC: Joan Bakewell urges action on part-time students

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