Those efforts have proven a failure to this point, and a market that has been fairly sanguine about the potential negative implications of the fiscal cliff to this point had a violent reaction Friday morning, though the move was tempered somewhat after Boehner said he is still open to working with the White House on some form of compromise.
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We are at a point where failure to rectify modernization shortfalls can no longer be ignored.
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Yes, with something this complex, you do become nervous about the chance of a single point of failure.
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Since an access point can share its connection with several other routers located near it, it doesn't have a single point of failure.
But as has become clear, WikiLeaks was not like the Internet it lives on: It also had a single, internal point of failure.
England's failure to gain the point they needed in their final Euro 2008 qualifier against Croatia at Wembley cost Steve McClaren his job as manager.
Influential though Habermas has been, his case for deliberative democracy is undermined by its complete failure to address a point that Hayek made on numerous occasions.
There is no way to fill in the space between the spines so that they are proof against catastrophe, or easily fixable at any point of failure.
Jonathon Feit was bullied, and he thinks that trial by fire gave him the kind of resolve an entrepreneur needs to succeed when all signs point to failure.
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The greatest single point of failure in maintaining a credible export control system was the neutering of the Defense Department's traditional role as the conservative anchor of the process.
At that point, it is vital that that participant be allowed to fail, to demonstrate to all other market participants where the point of failure in the pricing structure is.
While it is true that virtualization may be creating a situation where there is now a single point of failure, the cost benefits of virtualizing servers are well documented.
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But has journalism reached such a point of utter failure that we are ready to take these risks and hit the panic button?
They won their opening two matches in France but were well below par and their failure to secure a bonus point for scoring four or more tries in the victory against Georgia could yet prove costly.
New Zealand's failure to secure a bonus point means that mathematically at least, they need another point from their final two matches to reclaim the Tri-Nations title, with South Africa in Johannesburg next up in a fortnight.
England centre Jamie Noon scored the third of their tries, but their failure to earn a bonus point leaves them two points adrift of pool leaders Brive ahead of their pivotal clash at Kingston Park in January.
Even more of an illusion, no a delusion, is the failure to appreciate a related point: The sponsors of terrorism, with whom President Bush has properly declared a state of war to exist, are working feverishly to acquire long-range ballistic missiles precisely so they can deter the sort of attack against their countries he has promised to launch.
It was as if he took every failure in his life to that point in his career at age 42 and perfectly learned from it.
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The number of reasons why are staggering, namely: a failure to focus, no competitive point of difference, and weak brand images and identities, to name just a few.
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If one were to step back and take a broader perspective, the Occupy Movement is no different from the Tea Party Movement: they point to a fundamental failure in our system.
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Given the lifelessness of the enterprise, there's little point in belaboring its failure to convey the novel's themes, let alone the emotional and social resonance of what has come to be considered a masterpiece of world literature.
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So if you felt there had been something of a democratic failure here, you might have a point.
But they point to a larger strategic failure that has crippled Israel's capacity to contend with the information war being waged against it.
The failure of Annan's six-point peace plan has emboldened opposition groups.
Coulthard's McLaren team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, who started from the back of the grid following an engine failure in qualifying, scored his first point of the season.
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From that point of view, the failure of the Beijing Olympics to bring any of the promised (or more accurately, hoped-for) changes in China's policy towards dissent was probably the biggest disappointment of 2008.
There are very sound political reasons why he wants to point out that it is the failure to maintain jobs in the public sector that is the problem.
Your efforts to get to Philly based on your misunderstanding about your starting point are almost certainly doomed to failure (those pesky oceans, for instance, are going to be a real shock).
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Also, given the recent Lancet report on WHO's failure to provide effective malaria vaccine to the point of condemning some Africans to death just to save some money, makes the concern of the Nigerian clerics and other African governments very valid.
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