"I don't see a need to overhaul the regulations. The regulations cover the major causes of pipeline failures,and we do not see any gaps."

VOA: special.2011.07.08

Once the rumor got started that Asia was in trouble, these people started withdrawing their money faster and faster and it caused failures of domestic banks in these countries.

一时间流言四起,亚洲陷入困境,资金加速流出,这些国家的本土银行纷纷倒闭

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And there is a lot of people that want to place the blame on the accounting for those, for the bank failures

好多人想将银行破产等这些归咎于会计记帐，

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The seeds can also resist the Striga weed, a big cause of crop failures in Africa.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

It's about changing our interpretation of the world, of what's happening to us, of our achievements, of our failures.

要改变我们对世界的诠释，以及我们的遭遇，成就，失败。

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These struggles and failures made Taft's four years as president the unhappiest of his life.

VOA: special.2010.09.02

And against that we would then have to subtract the sum total of the negative experiences, all the failures and deceptions or what have you.

与此相对，我们必须,减掉消极经历的总和，所有的失败和受到的欺骗。

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They tell about the successes, failures and desires of one man throughout his life.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

So another parallel is people talk about these highly intelligent people from whom the President that surrounded himself, erh, FDR surrounded himself with highly intelligent people, that is no guarantee of anything, except brilliant rationalization for failures in some cases.

所以从另一个方面说,人们总在谈论这些,聪明的人,总统身边的，呃，罗斯福身边,就有高智商的人，但那保证不了什么，他们只能为失败,找到托词。

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The chief of British Petroleum blames failures by the rig's operator, Transocean of Switzerland.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

It's exposing defects in many of our biggest financial institutions and every day we see more news about failures, huge losses, resignations, or firings of top finance people.

这次金融危机暴露了,很多大型金融机构存在的问题,每天我们都看到很多关于,破产,巨额亏损,或者金融业高层,辞职或被炒鱿鱼的新闻

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