Given their self righteousness and lack of historical and cultural awareness, Bush and his advisors believed that invading Iraq would be easy, that Saddam Hussein s military would crumble, and that the US would be welcomed as a liberator.

In fact, most war is a failure of politics, a failure of political imagination.

The attempt ended in failure.

The peace talks ended in failure.

a major financial failure for Atari.

Let the Doha Round Fail

Everyone pretended to be shocked at the failure of internationalism.

All our effort ended in failure.

But TiVo's a commercial failure.

I won't let you call yourself a failure, Bark.

But to treat this setback as a failure would be a self fulfilling prophecy.

In this sense, the ECB s bond buying program has been a failure.

The 2005 06 season was not a total disaster.

That gap proved the difference between the success of the father and the failure of the son.

Putin's first term in office proved to be an economic success and a political failure.

The Orange Revolution in 2004 was a failure for most Ukrainians.

And for the Eurozone, it would be a failure, and a disturbing precedent.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure.

And I said, If it doesn't work, I have failed.

Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results, in all cases.

The most recent G7 finance ministers meeting in October was an utter failure.

RB Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure.

The supermarket's previous attempt to revamp its beauty and pharmacy departments ended in failure.

Despite praise from some critics, the album was a commercial failure.

He refused to even watch the film, which became a critical and box office failure.

India apos s attempt to organize another fraudulent election in Kashmir will prove abortive.

Yeah, my boy, it's the kind of a play that's either going to be a great flop or a great smash.

But Reding s appeal in Europe was considered a failure only 24 companies took it up.

In this sense, the failure to save Greece amounts to a failure of Europe.

The song failed to chart inside the Billboard Hot 100, becoming a commercial failure for the band and their label.

Despite generally good press, the game was a financial disappointment.

The fifth shock was German unification, which is a failure in economic terms. GDP per working age person in East Germany had been 61 of the West German level in 1996, but it is now only 59 .

The introduction of a common European currency was successful political integration by means of a constitutional treaty a failure.

The fifth shock was German unification, which is a failure in economic terms.

In Ligue 1, would not winning the title, like last season, be a big failure?

This phenomenon has been linked to the failure of development strategies and the effects of structural adjustment policies.

The latter two wars have been politically self defeating for the US, in addition to costing it trillions of dollars.

And it was in many ways, at this point in the mid 1850s, a complete disaster.

Dealing with Russia has probably been the biggest failure in the attempt to make European foreign policy.

Perhaps most important is a coherent, consistent approach to dealing with the imminent failure of systemically important institutions.

The overt bomb was of course the appearance of Sugar Aloes at the Eat Ah Food Fete.

It proved to be another financial failure and only grossed 6 million on its opening weekend.

After the Second World War, ill health reduced his levels of activity, and he considered his career a failure.

Until last year, many observers regarded R2P as at best a pious hope or a noble failure.

Origin The i960 design was started as a response to the failure of Intel's iAPX 432 design of the early 1980s.