The last major effort to reform health care failed in the early nineties.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

But the Senate failed in the effort by one vote.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

The Iraqi parliament,until now, has failed in attempts to cobble together a bill over oil revenues that would satisfy both Kurds and Arabs.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

The rebel group failed in its violent quest to establishment an ethnic homeland on the island, which is dominated by the mainly Buddhist Sinhalese.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Immigration reform failed in Congress in 2006 and 2007 and President Obama promised to make the issue a top priority during his first year in office.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

More than 130 US banks failed in 2009, the most since 1992.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

If his plan failed, he could offer them in exchange for his own freedom and that of his men.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

But the country has been split in half since a failed overthrow in two thousand two led to armed conflict.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

Researchers studied more than one hundred fifty patients who had failed to respond to at least one drug in the past.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

As we reported in our last program, slavery supporters failed to push through Congress a bill to make Kansas a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

In trying to improve his lovely wife, he had failed to realize she had been perfect all along.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

His company failed. In the eighteen nineties, an American company tried to build a canal across Nicaragua.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Tom Daschle made the decision after it became widely reported that he had failed to pay over one hundred forty thousand dollars in taxes.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

The two withdrawals followed problems with the nomination of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner who also had failed to pay thousands of dollars in taxes.

VOA: special.2009.02.06