But this is putting a brave face on what everyone knows was an abject failure.
Yes, America's Mideast policy is an abject failure, but not for the reason that you articulate.
The chances of another go at liberalisation soon, after an abject failure, would be slim.
The war's abject failure discredited pan-Arabism, allowing Arafat to bring the Palestinian cause itself to centre stage.
If self regulation is, in fact, a workable model, then why has it been such an abject failure?
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The main call of bogus revolves around non-compliance among passengers and abject failure of enforcement in the plane.
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"The NC-17 rating that currently exists has been an abject failure, " he said.
Singling out the Football Association (FA), he accused it of an abject failure to do enough to tackle the issue.
There has been an abject failure to address competently and comprehensively the ideological nature of our Islamofascist enemies and their enablers.
Our Mideast policy, which raised expectations that Israel would effectively give up its struggle for existence, is now clearly an abject failure.
She praised the work of Mr Clegg and Mrs Spelman, as part of the European delegation, to prevent the summit reaching "abject failure".
Abject failure to modernise or liberalise the economy in the past decade has left it vulnerable to further and bigger shocks in the next one.
Dr Whiteford described the EU's Common Fisheries Policy as an "abject failure", and criticised the fishing practices of Iceland and the Faroe Islands as "irresponsible".
Indonesia's adventure in East Timor has been an abject failure in every respect except one: it has been a stunning demonstration of the art of dividing to rule.
It was an abject failure, but there are mitigating circumstances.
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This skepticism, of course, comes in the wake of a financial crisis of historic proportions and abundant evidence that Sarbox has been an abject failure in cleaning up business.
Israel's success in building a modern economy within a democratic setting holds a mirror to the Arab-Muslim world's abject failure to meet demands of the modern world with reasonableness.
This really is an abject failure by Microsoft.
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It is incredibly clear that the current policy of TB control is an abject failure, so carrying on as we are is doomed to increase the size of any effective future badger cull.
The Revolution, it seemed, was an abject failure.
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Andrew Neilson, of the Howard League for Penal Reform, argued that the plans represented "an admission of the abject failure of short-term prison sentences" and that the government should make greater use of community sentences.
But the deepened loyalty and satisfaction we get from running a real business together mostly from a home office, sitting within feet of each other is tempered by the ever-present possibility of abject failure.
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Moreover, what does its abject failure to deploy adequately tell us about the defense establishment's ability to properly understand regional developments and trends, and prepare the IDF to protect the country in the face of them?
Anything short of a ticker tape parade down the Canyon of Heroes in lower Manhattan is viewed as an abject failure in the eyes of the organization, the fans, the media and even the city of New York.
Two weeks ago, the United States took an important stand against the United Nation's record of feckless and contemptuous treatment of human rights issues - and its abject failure to take meaningful steps to take long-overdue corrective actions.
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Second, no one man deserves all the blame for Labour being so much slower than the electorate to accept in the 1970s and 1980s that its policies of public ownership and high taxation had turned into an abject failure.
We have to face the fact that the old so-called conservative movement in this country is a fractured mess that over the past thirty years has been often tone deaf, behind the curve tactically, and an abject failure from a policy standpoint.
Given the abject failure of the two-state paradigm, it is abundantly clear that for all the complications that may be associated with the application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, it is a better option for Israel than Israeli surrender of the areas.
It is hardly shocking that the results would be so deeply depressing when contemplating a circumstance where every item designed to bend the cost curve in healthcare, as set out in the Affordable Care Act, turns out to be an abject failure particularly when coupled with the assumption that Congress will end each and every tax that is designed to fund the law.
In 1993, the embassy in Washington began lobbying Congress to approve hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance to the PA. And because the ideological and policy assumptions of the Oslo process have never been scrutinized despite the policy's abject failure, apparently, this remains the underlying policy assumption of the Foreign Ministry in its dealings with foreign governments, including the US Congress.
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