Failure to perform any career search step flawlessly will knock you out as a contender.

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Failure to perform these reporting obligations subjects the taxpayer to civil penalties, and to potential criminal prosecution.

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Those are the facts necessary to satisfy the elements of a claim for, say, breach of contract: promise, consideration, failure to perform, causation and damages, or the requirements of an affirmative defense: impossibility of performance, for instance.

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The breakdowns observed included (1) the lack of an audit trail in the COMPASS database and the ability for the arrestees to manipulate worksheet items in COMPASS, (2) the failure to perform periodic contractor cost audits (3) the quality of the Trenching Manual, (4) the lack of a formal employee rotation policy, and (5) the failure to coordinate follow through on reported allegations.

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Second, what was seen as a failure by Nick Clegg to perform like any other MP and fight his city's corner.

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But a failure to continue to attract top talent first, and to perform on the pitch on a second level, could hurt commercial revenues in the longer run.

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"Failure to do so will irreversibly undermine the NSA and its ability to perform in a transformed global information technology arena, " said the Committee.

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It's hard to believe he can competently perform this task if his only experience in a similar situation ended in failure.

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