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Examples for "failing "
1 US-VISIT has a long history of security problems and failing government audits.
2 He said the actor had been in failing health in recent years.
3 Maoists said the group had given themselves up because of failing health.
4 Mr Shearer said the current electricity system was failing ordinary New Zealanders.
5 Events in Europe suggest IS is failing in its mission to divide.
1 However, Pakistan has failed in a number of areas including maternal health.
2 Limited sanctions, however, have thus far failed to stop Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
3 His new rhetoric, however, has so far failed to regain voters' enthusiasm.
4 The opposition Labour party said the budget failed to help ordinary people.
5 However, he failed to mention two significant recent developments in Northern Ireland.
6 His warning came after the government failed to approve key budget measures.
7 An effort to abolish the law legislatively last year failed , he said.
8 This legal challenge ultimately failed , as seen by the commission's current operations.
9 Mexican authorities have failed to properly investigate the case, Amnesty International said.
10 Yet again, we have seen how basic democratic mechanisms failed to work.
11 In 25 years of democracy, numerous new dawns have failed to materialise.
12 Federal efforts to create a national carbon trading market failed this summer.
13 The price discounting, however, failed to improve the bloc's dominant service industry.
14 The government has moreover failed to replace dozens of key international agreements.
15 Young people deserve far better than the failed referendum on the presidency.
16 A coroner said last month police had failed to respond quickly enough.
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fail Verb
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