• Unfortunately, episodic sales have only limited benefits, generating modest revenues while failing to satisfy ongoing demand.

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  • Seven years later he almost drowned while failing to jump the Snake River Canyon, a quarter-of-a-mile wide, in Idaho.

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  • Proposing more gun laws while failing to enforce the thousands we already have, it's not a serious solution for reducing crime.

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  • Munster played most of the attacking rugby and they enjoyed a large chunk of territory while failing to trouble the try-line.

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  • QDRs have been criticised for coming up with somewhat vague transforming plans while failing to make the savings necessary to pay for them.

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  • While failing to include an actual solution with sound facts, he fails to acknowledge the repercussions that would come with executing such proposals.

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  • But he went back on his word, and was booed lustily by the Royals' home crowd while failing to hit a single home run himself.

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  • More recently, Yahoo grappled with the rise of Facebook while failing to establish a big footprint in mobile devices and new methods of selling online ads.

    WSJ: Jerry Yang Resigns From Yahoo, the Company He Founded

  • "Profitable companies like Amazon, dodging fair taxes while failing to pay their staff a living wage and treat them properly, deserve a corporate Asbo, " he said.

    BBC: GMB protest at Amazon, Doncaster

  • Giant distillers also are squeezing distributor margins from a traditional 25% to below 10% on bestselling labels--while failing to come up with high-growth brands to replace missing profits.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • As a result, HMV has managed to alienate its core market of CD-buyers, while failing to attract new customers for other products, leaving it in the worst of all worlds.

    BBC: HMV leaves social gap in High Street

  • The problem with these investigations is not simply that the FTC so often gravitates toward market definitions that are unduly narrow, making it easier to establish antitrust injury while failing to capture market realities.

    FORBES: Don't Throw The Flag: How The FTC Acts Like Replacement Refs

  • Rohan thinks the pending Motorola Mobility acquisition could distract senior management, while failing to protect Android and leading Google into the intensely competitive mobile phone hardware business, and keeping Google from returning capital to holders.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Ian Bell and Matt Prior got them off to a tentative start as they were happy to play the ball around a slow outfield for ones and twos and protect their wickets, while failing to take advantage of the powerplays.

    BBC: Pietersen inspires England to win

  • The federal government has also served to distract our IT security teams as numerous bills have required an onerous documentation and reporting regime to comply with Sarbanes Oxley and HIPAA, while failing to pass legislation that addresses the morass of state breach disclosure laws we have to comply with.

    FORBES: An Open Letter to Senator Rockefeller

  • But it remains to be seen whether they will also need to carry on living with the continued double standard of many journalists placing them under critical scrutiny while failing to challenge lobby groups that make inaccurate and misleading claims about the science and misrepresent their own ideological motives.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • For example the committee has decided to look at the "landscape" of defence procurement - or to put it another way, at why so many major weapons programmes seem to go over budget and over-time, while often failing to deliver the promised capabilities.

    BBC: A Year On Part 2: The old lags flourishing in Commons

  • World champion Michael Schumacher came seventh in last weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix while also failing to finish in the opening race in Australia.

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  • The other big failing of the new Burke's is its decision to include the 500 or so life peerages in its pages while almost entirely failing to give any genealogical information about them.

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  • While many hospitals are failing to comply with safety rules, few are actually punished or forced to make improvements.

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  • They have, he says, encouraged shortsightedness, the black economy and consumption, while discouraging education and failing to prepare firms for change.

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  • While failing in their attempts to amend the legislation in any form, Conservative MPs voiced their concerns in large numbers on a range of issues.

    BBC: Gay marriage: Deal to allow bill to proceed in Parliament

  • Reverse mortgages, which hold great promise as a way for the frail elderly to pay for long-term care costs while living at home, are failing to do the job.

    FORBES: Reverse Mortgages Fall Short of Their Potential, Says a New Government Report

  • Some fans were disappointed with the way in which he handled some of the cuts with five players being suspended from first team duty while still on full pay after failing to agree new contracts.

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  • He has been charged with causing death by careless driving, failing to stop and driving while disqualified.

    BBC: Jade Clark's funeral at Bournemouth Crematorium

  • Both Joleon Lescott and Shaun Wright-Phillips had been guilty of wasting final passes and Jo of failing to outmuscle his marker while through on goal before Italian Balotelli opened the scoring.

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  • Senator Cochran addressed the preposterous inaccuracy of claims that the Senate's rejection of the CTBT was animated by "neo-isolationism" and admonished the present Administration for failing to work with Congress while the Treaty was being negotiated.

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  • Having knocked the government of Lionel Jospin for failing to cut taxes enough while he was outside it, Mr Fabius has yet to prove he is politically nimble enough to persuade France's unwieldy left-wing coalition to swallow such reforms.

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  • Juventus coach Antonio Conte recently returned from a 10-match touchline ban imposed for failing to report match-fixing while coach at Siena.

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  • Mr Lovell is also charged with driving while disqualified, driving with no insurance and failing to stop at the scene of a collision.

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