Failed politics is a failure of vision or analysis, solution or persuasion.

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But the real danger is that a failure to find an Arab-Kurdish solution for the disputed land will give the insurgents continued leverage.

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But there is a danger that the failure to find an Arab-Kurdish solution for the disputed land will give the insurgents a perpetual casus belli.

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Part of the solution involves tackling another longstanding failure: the government's inability to raise sufficient taxes to pay for the rudiments of a modern state.

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"The safety of the flying public is our top priority and we won't allow the 787 to return to commercial service until we're confident that any proposed solution has addressed the battery failure risks, " it said.

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We have the failure of the EU-Putin summit to come up with any solution.

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On the other hand a very large player might be able to push some sort of Stackelberg-esque solution where she makes it blatantly obvious the conditions under which she will suffer massive failure and likely trip the slaughter rule.

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