A failing business venture. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Received failing grades. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
His failing the course led to his disqualification. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Preposition : failing payment, we shall sue. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : The experiment failed because of poor planning. ,He failed in history. ,Our supplies failed. ,The flowers failed for lack of rain. ,His health failed after the operation. ,The electricity failed during the storm. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : He failed to do his duty. ,His friends failed him. Words failed her. ,He failed history. ,The professor failed him in history. From Dictionary.com.
To draw too many conclusions about downtown "failing" is a little absurd. From Wordnik.com. [You know it's bad (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference
They said it loud and clear and many times over. they think that America failing is their ticket to power. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton: Vetting process for administration jobs 'a nightmare'] Reference
One defense against this failing is the Bill of Rights, but the list of protected liberties is not intended to be complete. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Wishful Linguistics] Reference
The thing that I see failing is Senator Inhofe's mind. From Wordnik.com. [Inhofe: Copenhagen conference 'has failed'] Reference
This failing is one of historical sources, not scholarship. From Wordnik.com. [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference
You are reporting on a missing man who is in failing health. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes or Villains?] Reference
Republicans yet again failing to secure America from terror. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Administration Receives Poor Grade On “Biggest Threat Facing This Country”] Reference
So, take heart from the Wright Brothers and begin failing today. From Wordnik.com. [Practice Failing Until The Day You Can Fly. Lessons Learned From The Wright Brothers. - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn] Reference
She remained so until, in failing health, she was put down in 2004. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Hughes: The Doggies of War] Reference
I mean, failing is one thing, but sabotaging a work is quite another. From Wordnik.com. [At The Trailer Park: The Half-Blood Prince, The Spirit, Race to Witch Mountain, 2012] Reference
The fact that most of the failing schools are in failing communities. From Wordnik.com. [Teacher Pay and Quality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
We must stop joining Secretary Gates in failing to answer the question. From Wordnik.com. [Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: Just War Theory: Are We Protecting the Moral Conscience of Soldiers?] Reference
Hillary has really turned ugly in failing to put country & party first. From Wordnik.com. [Pelosi, Reid working together to end uncertainty over nomination] Reference
Am I alone in failing to understand why Iain is being so nice to Jowell?. From Wordnik.com. [Tessa Jowell Still in the Mire] Reference
This White House has been pathetic in failing to be transparent or trans anything. From Wordnik.com. [Dunn leaving White House] Reference
I suspect the failing is not mine alone in critics of Ares and space enthusiasts. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Outpost or Bust - NASA Watch] Reference
But even worse are the mistakes I have made in failing to dwell peacefully with my husband. From Wordnik.com. [Managing the Home] Reference
He's outraged that there is no downside to failure for the adults in failing school systems. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Vander Ark: Tired of Waiting] Reference
Her only failing is in most of the book consisting of the history of the ancient western world. From Wordnik.com. [“The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome” by Susan Wise Bauer (Norton, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog] Reference
But the land breeze had begun to die away with the rising sun, and now came only in failing puffs. From Wordnik.com. [White and Yellow] Reference
Is my brain failing, or did Dusty sing a couple of tunes written/arranged/etc by Richard Carpenter?. From Wordnik.com. [Weekly Mishmash: June 28-July 4 : Scrubbles.net] Reference
I think a bigger failing is when a show or a successor to an earlier show ignores previous set "canon". From Wordnik.com. [Is Firefly Good Sci-Fi?] Reference
In the past, Darlene Pool has suffered from several heart attacks and strokes and is in failing health. From Wordnik.com. [O'Donnell, Michael D.] Reference
Ideally, if Kim Il Sung - we think he had a stroke a couple of years ago, we think he's in failing health. From Wordnik.com. [Rumors Grow Over North Korean Succession] Reference
One day I happened to speak of my disappointment in failing to trade for a beautiful pair of orange cowries. From Wordnik.com. ["Yah! Yah! Yah!"] Reference
Because right now, across the country, kids are stuck in failing schools, just waiting for us to do something. From Wordnik.com. [How to fix our schools: A manifesto by Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee and other education leaders] Reference
Democratic leaders should be held accountable for their part in failing to make good on some of these promises. From Wordnik.com. [Michael B. Keegan: LGBT Americans: Act Now to Prevent Painful Tea Party Hangover] Reference
They can find in us no treason except that we keep our treaties: failing to do this I call failing in controversy. From Wordnik.com. [The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian] Reference
Dr. Edwards, 85, is in failing health and was too ill to make any public response to the award, his colleagues said. From Wordnik.com. [Robert G. Edwards Wins Nobel Prize for Medicine] Reference
But her sloppiness in failing to properly attribute many other passages strips it of nearly all its academic merits. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Coulter guilty of “textbook plagiarism”] Reference
Lebanon did not kidnap the IDF soldiers but in failing to rein in Hezbollah, they are complicit through dereliction. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » As Violence Ignites In The Middle East, Bush Falls Back On Standard Talking Points] Reference
I sense that your fear is rooted in failing, not being able to provide for your wife and kids, losing your house (s), etc. From Wordnik.com. [I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore! | Johnny B. Truant] Reference
So you should give us some reason to think the results are wrong before you bother explaining what human failing is at fault. From Wordnik.com. [A question of faith] Reference
His mistake is in failing to remember that in his model Haig-Simons output is very, very different indeed from standard reported GDP. From Wordnik.com. [DeLong, Dasgupta, and Stern, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
But her sloppiness in failing to properly attribute many other passages strips it of nearly all its academic merits, he told The Post. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Blind eye to Coulter plagiarism.] Reference
The Supreme Court's greatest failing is not ideological bias — it's the justices 'increasingly tenuous grasp of how the real world works. From Wordnik.com. [Of Clerks and Perks] Reference
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