Or it is a complete failure of internal controls and risk management systems, which means general management failed big time, too.
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And we also wanted a risk mitigator against a complete failure.
It has likely realized that nonengagement has been a complete failure.
The Kyoto protocol, which tried to get the world's big polluters to commit themselves to cutting emissions to 1990 levels or below, was not a complete failure.
In and of itself, the fact that the war has already reached a stalemate constitutes a complete failure of the administration's stated aim of protecting innocent Libyan civilians from slaughter.
Publishers claim the bar is too high when it comes to good scores, but then will view their product as a complete failure if it fails to meet the expectations that they themselves have set.
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"What we saw from them in office was at best incompetence and at worst a wilful disregard for taxpayers' money and a complete failure to understand how you do create long-term sustainable jobs in an economy, " he said.
The unnecessary ill-feeling that these anomalies may create becomes obvious when the Scottish plans are compared with those on offer to Wales, where the government suffered a complete failure of radical nerve, mainly for fear of worsening the Welsh Labour Party's already rancorous divisions.
Well, Bing This, because Bing is a complete failure because of guys like my brother-in-law who are there for the benefits, and not willing to take any chances or come up with anything new that might rock the boat of their executives that care more about the security of their positions than the guys and gals below them.
She was from Shoreditch, sir, which is about as Cock-er-ney as it is possible to be (or was back in the 50s - now it's full of ruddy eejits in very thin jeans ashamed of their parents' wealth and exhibiting a complete failure to understand that they are the laughing stock of the rest of the London populace).
For Verizon, a failure to complete the deal means a failure to take out an aggressive price competitor.
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Unfortunately, the shingle proved to be a complete commercial failure, and, in fact, it eventually lost its UL certification, and became ILLEGAL for sale in the United States.
Liberal Democrat education spokeswoman Jenny Randerson AM, said it was the second year in a row in which the assembly government had to make rapid changes to the budget due to a "complete failure" in planning.
Now, of course, the stimulus program was a complete and utter failure.
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Summing up at the inquest Mr Ridley said the front brake suffered a "complete catastrophic failure" due to the pinch bolt "more likely than not being sufficiently tight" and causing the cantilever not to function at all.
The few patents that might matter to an Apple, Google, Amazon or Facebook ( FB) do not justify the time and money you would have to spend to get something out of a case study in complete failure like RIM.
His complete silence was a failure of leadership, and, in my opinion, of character.
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Particularly egregious is its failure to complete a free-trade pact with Chile, a beacon of light in otherwise frightful South America.
Failure to complete a course of antibiotics can also give micro-organisms - which may remain after symptoms have vanished - a chance to develop resistance.
Influential though Habermas has been, his case for deliberative democracy is undermined by its complete failure to address a point that Hayek made on numerous occasions.
Consider this: the difference between wild success and complete failure may be as small as a 3 percent difference in your performance, run out over a period of years.
But the complete failure of the delegates to reach a consensus on updating international telecommunication laws seems to hinge primarily on the push by countries like Russia open the internet to additional UN regulation, that could cover everything from security to the assignment of addresses (something currently handled by ICANN).
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Barring a complete crack up of the eurozone, a China hard landing, and a U.S. recession due to failure in the fiscal cliff talks, oil will likely be another boring commodity in 2013.
Ms. Merkel, acknowledging the failure so far to complete the Doha Round of trade negotiations, also expressed support for a free-trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union.
The government investigation is only partly complete, but it has now looked in detail at one dramatic failure, the breach of a wall that held back water in the 17th Street canal.
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