This was clearly a failure by someone who thought he was above failure.

这显然是一个自以为不会失败的人所经历的一次失败。

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Incarceration in America is a failure by almost any measure.

不管从什么角度来看，监禁在美国的执行都是失败的。

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Can we minimize failure by mapping predict all that a user might ever want?

我们能通过预测所有用户可能的需求而把失败最小化吗？

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Under questioning, spokesman Wood said the ensuing North Korean retaliation was not a failure of U.S.diplomacy, but a failure by Pyongyang to live up to its international obligations.

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Now it's different in important ways because it's really focused at preventing the collapse of the economy that is created by a financial system failure.

现在，这个不同有很重要的意义,因为它真正专注于,阻止被金融系统的失败而引发的,经济的崩溃。

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So, it really is -it really ought to be on the bank's balance sheet and it ought to be regulated by the bank regulators, but there was a failure to do that and that is the problem that we are in currently.

所以说,它确实该...,它应该反映在银行的资产负债表上,同时接受银行监管体系的管理,但这却没能实现,这就是我们目前面临的问题

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Opposition parties said the review was an admission of failure by the Labour minister.

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Collective failure by officers and their supervisors in Ashbourne Division meant no meaningful investigation took place.

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Don't set yourself up for failure by starting each day with an unrealistically long agenda.

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