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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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?
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.
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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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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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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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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"Those things collectively I think, constrained us operationally to the point where we were almost destined to failure, " he says.
Hodgson missed the conversion - his first failure in six attempts - but an 11-point interval lead still looked a healthy one.
At this point, the speech is destined for failure, and it all started as a chain reaction triggered by not using natural hand gestures.
"No amount of money can compensate for the school district's deliberate failure to provide an appropriate education at a crucial point in our son's life, " she says.
" He says he likes to tell youths and college students: "What would your life be like if you could eliminate the fear of failure, and where would you be at this point in life?
And Raikkonen took the final point in eighth place despite retiring with engine failure five laps from the end.
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They attempted to anchor at Stepper Point in the Camel estuary but a gearbox failure meant they were quickly driven onto rocks just outside Padstow and forced to issue a mayday call at about 04.45 BST.
"At no point have the Libyan authorities been legally justified in their failure to surrender him to the ICC, " the lawyers said.
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