He told them: "The war for the Union is, in your hands, a most bloody and costly failure.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Space agency officials had to find the reason for the failure of the target satellite.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Professor Desai says the search for solutions after a failure can make leaders more open-minded.

VOA: special.2010.09.09

He faced criticism for his failure to pay the International Monetary Fund.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

For many years before that,however, he had been considered a failure.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

General McClellan kept making excuses for his failure to act.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

"This is because such failure, if it were allowed to occur, would have serious negative consequences for generations to come."

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

"Its failure could have resulted in a 1930s-style global financial and economic meltdown, with catastrophic implications for production, income and jobs,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

He predicts high failure rates for smaller, regional banks in 2010 as commercial real estate loans come due.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

The U.S.Food and Drug Administration has not yet approved the device to be used for heart failure patients.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

Bakiyev denies any role in the violence and blames interim authorities for failure to protect the people.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

But no such mechanism exists for non-bank financial institutions like AIG whose failure would inflict great economic pain on the nation as a whole.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

"The failure to devise a clear, Mr.Secretary,and credible plan for employing TARP, has also resulted in a massive waste, some people believe,of taxpayer dollars,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

And at that point,we believe there should be consequences for a failure to respond."

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Gabisov chided participants for failure to discuss more specific measures, and noted the brutal lengths to which corrupt officials go if they are exposed in the press.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15

It speaks I would say for failure on the part of intelligence agencies."

VOA: standard.2010.01.09

The UN Human Rights Council was set to condemn Israel for its failure to cooperate with the fact finding mission headed by South African Justice, Richard Goldstone.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

"It is very important," "I think the failure to pass health-care legislation this year will be a tremendous setback for the administration and for the leadership in Congress."

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

But it said that given the Sri Lankan government's complete failure thus far to investigate possible war crimes, the only hope for justice would be an independent, international investigation.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

"Every year we list more and more people for a kidney transplant and that's because more and more people are developing kidney failure, more people are becoming candidates for a transplant."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

Therefore,steps were taken virtually to abolish it,'". While systemic failure was the key factor for some observers, others highlight the role played by individuals working to defeat Soviet communism from within.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

"Rather than being a mechanism of cooperation,of joint fact-finding, of assistance to one another, it became another focal point for animosity and a failure,really, to work together to solve the desperate needs of both peoples."

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

Mohammad Akhter,Executive Director of the National Medical Association, said reform is needed to deal with an explosion of chronic disease in the United States, adding that failure to pass a bill now would mean more expense for the country later.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

"But they've had to back away from that, because any Karzai fault is something that really can be linked very much to the failure of the United States to press very hard for greater transparency, greater accountability, and to also put in place institutions that are responsive to the Afghan people."

VOA: standard.2009.08.03