Tom isn't afraid to fail.

This was the apogee of the empire.

The list of such mishaps and missed opportunities is long.

Having failed four times, he didn't try anymore.

But one great success does not negate the many failures.

We should learn from those failures.

People are not remembered by the number of times they fail but for the number of times they succeed.

But past efforts at building a global order have had their share of futility.

BALTIMORE Thomas Edison is reputed to have said, I have not failed.

After the troubles that morning, I ended up with some free time on my hands.

The same is true, over time, with financial disasters.

There is much to learn from the diplomatic failures that led to WWI.

The result of such failures is that small elites benefit while the majority suffers.

Segregated housing has led to huge shantytowns and settlements lacking sanitation and other basic conditions essential to a life with dignity.

Segregated schooling is a barrier to integration and produces prejudice and failure.

The crisis is a result of at least eight distinct but related failures

When so much goes wrong at the same time, it is tempting to look for a common cause.

Whether this strategy will succeed in obscuring the government s record of failure in the minds of voters remains to be seen.

We learn from economic policy failures as well as from successes.

Why has it unlike previous forecasting failures stoked so much mistrust of economists?

Moreover, Chávez has suffered several regional setbacks recently, and all have domestic repercussions.

Herein lies the crux of the many failures of the Western alliance their demonstrated lack of a true understanding of Afghanistan s essence.

The successes of populist right wing parties can largely be attributed to the failures of left leaning governments. Europe's disappointing economic performance lies at the root of this.

So, in searching for the causes of the IMF s failure, we can rule out distraction by more urgent matters.

The successes of populist right wing parties can largely be attributed to the failures of left leaning governments.

Each of those other movements holds a bonanza of lessons for climate activists on how sweeping change succeeds or fails.

For a region that has suffered so long from frustration and despair over its failures, these are among the best of times.

Political ideas are easily translated into religious language, and in extreme circumstances, violent jihadism is used to express political frustrations.

Thus he can continue his never ending adventure and humanize his shipwreck wherever he may be.

Over the last 10 years, Macedonia's ruling party has stirred homophobic sentiments as a way to divert public attention from political and economic failures.

After all the breakdowns in efforts to create a Palestinian state from the top down, only the old fashioned way from the bottom up remains viable.

With one exception the actual military victory, which looks increasingly Pyrrhic President Bush's Iraqi adventure has been marked by repeated failures.

Typically, development experts regard migration as a sign of failure if development policies work, people should not want to move.

If they do not want to repeat the failures of past administrations, they will be well advised to do what none of Obama s predecessors have tried.

Attempts to revive the Oslo peace process the Road Map and the Annapolis process have similarly failed to achieve more than vacuous declarations and hollow photo opportunities. The causes of these 15 years of failure should be considered, so that Mitchell s mission does not become another stillborn effort.

When we think about failing in life, when we think about failure, one of the reasons why we fear failing is not just a loss of income, a loss of status.

The causes of these 15 years of failure should be considered, so that Mitchell s mission does not become another stillborn effort.

If they do not want to repeat the failures of past administrations, they will be well advised to do what none of Obama s predecessors have tried.

It is important that we recognize the source of America s failure, because it keeps recurring, making peace between Israel and Palestine more difficult.

The social causes of the Russian Revolution mainly came from centuries of oppression of the lower classes by the Tsarist regime, and Nicholas's failures in World War I.

The world has been amply warned about Blix's weaknesses because he has a track record of compounded failure.

The countries of North Africa and the Middle East should learn from East Asia and Northern Europe, and take pains to avoid the failures of the US.

Moreover, even if China suffers no major domestic political setback, many current projections are based simply on GDP growth.

I fail all the time, every day, and I've had some whopping failures, I promise, big, public, humiliating, embarrassing failures.

Despite nationalist parties' success in France, the same is true of the setback for President Jacques Chirac's centre right party.