The Potters' failure sign Ba could yet revive the Stoke careers of other strikers at the club who were tipped to leave the Britannia Stadium if Ba completed his transfer.
Burnett and Phil Hughes, not to mention the retirement of Andy Pettitte and failure to sign Cliff Lee.
In less egregious cases the IRS should strictly apply the statutory penalties for failure to sign a return prepared for pay.
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His successor this week sent a party of negotiators to the area, but delayed sending a technical team because of the rebels' failure to sign the accord.
The explosive debut spit in the face of the perception surrounding the Mets' outfield, an outlook that was made worse by the Mets' failure to sign free-agent Michael Bourn.
He also revealed that he had ordered an urgent review of the UK's failure to sign up to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, which published payments by firms to governments.
But even readers who love Facebook, or at least cannot imagine life without it, should see its stock market failure as a sign of the commercial limits of the Internet.
Most past efforts have been incidental and have been abandoned at the earliest sign of failure.
Most past efforts have been incidental and were abandoned at the earliest sign of failure.
Yes, I do think it fair to say that wild gyrations are a sign of failure in an economic policy or system.
He told the BBC such a plan of action would be "absolutely the wrong thing to do" and a "sign of failure".
But blame for poor outside appointments falls squarely on independent directors, perhaps encouraging them to change their minds at the first sign of failure.
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Four of the films on our list actually managed to earn back 100% of their production budgets, but in Hollywood, that's still a sign of failure.
But we do see these kind of pent-up frustrations, the sign of failure to deliver on expectations, the failure to deliver the orthodoxy of the Social Security plan, the nomination of Harriet Miers, a disappointment.
Write-downs, as I have underscored in the past, are a clear sign of management failure.
But another persistent fall in prices would be a sign of policy failure.
But, where public provision of social services is the norm, as in most of continental Europe, governments have been more ambivalent, seeing private provision as a sign of state failure.
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This failure is often the first visible sign of financial distress in a market where SEC disclosure rules are not enforced.
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The event prompted questions about many things including my management style and whether the event was a sign of a systemic failure of control right across BP.
But a sign of Concorde's commercial failure is that its design has not been refined and replaced.
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This is a sign that we will act without failure upon receiving a final report from Judge Mushwana.
Their failure to arrest him so far could be a sign of progress.
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To me, on this side, your anger is a failure of perception, your sense of betrayal a sign of the unawakened heart.
It's another scientific failure for big pharma, and perhaps also a sign that the Food and Drug Administration is holding new heart pills to a tougher standard.
It is a sign of the FAA's institutional culture of failure that it can't even sabotage itself successfully.
There was enough to be learned even through failure that a track record of multiple startups was a good sign.
The failure of Bear Stearns, Lehman and many others was, as opposed to a crisis, a sign of an economy on the mend as markets tried to cleanse from the system bad business practices.
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O'Neil claims that Hollywood has improved in its recognition of black actors, but the Academy's failure to nominate 2006's "Dreamgirls" for best picture, for example, is a sign that Oscar voters simply don't understand such films culturally.
There is frustration at the failure of negotiations to lead anywhere, and resentment at the arrest of Mr Colonna, which some see as a sign of the return of a policy of repression.
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