• Or it is a complete failure of internal controls and risk management systems, which means general management failed big time, too.

    FORBES: UBS Goes Rogue: What Else Are Bankers Hiding In Their Drawers?

  • And we also wanted a risk mitigator against a complete failure.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • It has likely realized that nonengagement has been a complete failure.

    CNN: Why is North Korea willing to deal on nukes?

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Climate change

  • 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.

    FORBES: Why Video Games Should Adopt Film's Five Star Rating System

  • 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).

    BBC: WI v England: Third Test day three as it happened

  • For Verizon, a failure to complete the deal means a failure to take out an aggressive price competitor.

    FORBES: Sprint Rallies As DOJ Opposes AT&T/T-Mobile Deal; Mixed Blessing?

  • 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.

    FORBES: Connect

  • 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.

    BBC: Funds return to further education

  • 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.

    BBC: Kadian Harding

  • 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.

    FORBES: Would Apple Screw Up Twitter on Buyout?

  • Failure to complete a course of antibiotics can also give micro-organisms - which may remain after symptoms have vanished - a chance to develop resistance.

    BBC: Action on antibiotics

  • 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.

    FORBES: Mark Pennington on Hayek and Habermas

  • 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.

    FORBES: Basics Win Ball Games

  • 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.

    FORBES: Oil Not Going To $50 Any Time Soon

  • 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.

    WSJ: Merkel, in Speech at Davos,

  • 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.

    NPR: Panel's Report Assigns No Blame in Levee Failures

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