Kennedy, equally keen to avoid what he called "the final failure", responded in kind, and the world was brought back from the brink.

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Shadow chancellor George Osborne blamed the government for what he called a "catastrophic failure of bank regulation", contributing to the "longest and deepest recession" since the 1930s.

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Ampal pointed to what it called the Egyptian energy firms' "longstanding failure to supply the gas quantities owed" under the deal between the parties.

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Mr Harvie called on the government to give clear guidance on what would constitute failure when a voluntary approach was adopted.

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The so-called Collision Avoidance Manoeuvre is what the truck will initiate if it suffers a major failure just as it is about to dock with the space station.

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