In nineteen sixty-four Abe Pollin bought a failing basketball team from Baltimore,Maryland and brought it to his hometown.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

This puts the British Government in an embarrassing situation of owning a failing mortgage lender, so they've got to now be the government collecting on all these mortgages; it's a mess.

承认其银行抵押贷款出现严重问题,着实令英国政府颜面扫地,所以现在不得不由政府出面,收购所有这些抵押贷款,真是一团乱

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So, you would expect a child who just grew up with a mother or just grew up to be a father--with a father to be in some sense psychologically damaged by that, failing to go through the normal psychosexual stages.

你会看到由单身母亲抚养长大的孩子,或由单身父亲抚养长大的孩子,在某种意义上,会因此而形成心理创伤，从而无法正常地经历所有的性心理阶段。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

India's soldiers withdrew in humiliation three years later after failing to neutralize the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

There's at least some agreement that's going to be better for everybody than a strike, and yet, because they're conflicting interests there, basically in that case conflicting interest about health and pension payments, it could well be that you end failing to coordinate.

签订协议至少比,大家都去罢工要好一些吧,但话说回来,他们也的确存在利益冲突,笼统地讲是有关,健康问题和退休金的利益问题,这很容易会导致协调失败

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The offensive came after the United States and other western allies criticized the Pakistani military for failing to rein in the extremists.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Both companies have declared bankruptcy after failing to recover from a drastic drop in auto sales.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

In one year,that number would double. The auto industry was failing, banks had become reluctant to lend and Americans were losing their homes in record numbers.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

Malik also defended the efforts of Lahore's police, who recently came under fierce criticism after failing to kill or capture any of the attackers involved in the assault on the Sri Lankan cricket team.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

A believer in independence from the rest of Cyprus, Eroglu has staked his claim to the presidency by accusing the incumbent, Mr.Talat of failing in talks with Greek Cypriots aimed at resolving their territorial dispute.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

HIV activists have praised Mr.Zuma for breaking publicly in his first year of office with the policies of his predecessor, former President Thabo Mbeki who was accused of failing to respond adequately to the HIV pandemic.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

"In some of the governorates, have not a single member working, without any source of income, which is in turn having a huge impact on their ability to afford rented accommodation and their ability to buy food in a country where the public distribution system is failing quite badly,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.20