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

And you know the answer is yes because I wouldn't set myself up for failure like this, would I?

你知道答案是，是,因为我不会为了这个而承担失败的风险，为什么我不会呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

With the abhorred shears she cruelly punishes the virgin poet for his failure on the one hand to use the sexual body that God has endowed him with, but you also have the image here of the poet's death.

她用剪刀残忍了惩罚了未失童真的诗人,一方面因为他没能利用上帝赋予他的,性的肉体，但这里也有诗人死亡的形象。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2010.01.09

What's distinctive about the South: "The South has a tradition," Said Gurganus, "Of attempting the impossible at great cost, proudly celebrating the failure, and in gaining admiration for the performance."

写的是南方的独特之处,"南方有种传统",古尔加努斯说,"付出巨大的代价挑战命运,即便失败仍非常自豪,并因此而为他人所尊敬"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.10.22

And this is called the Pratfall Effect, that our liking for the competent person grows when they make a mistake, when they do something embarrassing, when they have a failure experience. Okay?

心理学上，这叫“失态效应，我们对有能力之人的喜爱之情再次升华,当他们犯错，出洋相，经历很衰的事情时？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"My sister has been in renal failure for months now." "You're supposed to give her a kidney?"

VOA: special.2009.06.12

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

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

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