The narrator's domestic life, described as an idyll, crumbles to nothing, but the failure goes almost unnoticed.

"His failure in admitting the truth," Francis went on determinedly.

Within a few years, failures went from 10 a year to almost 200, creating what most experts say was a daunting administrative task for the agency.

The failure to understand went both ways.

A reporter reflects on the experience of one American battalion and how success and failure go hand in hand.

Network Ten deemed the new series a failure after only three episodes had gone to air, and it was quickly removed from the schedules.

In the same way every moral failure is going to cause trouble, probably to others and certainly to yourself.

The Bush administration's failure to support those who have served goes beyond the smearing of these political opponents.

And this failure of communication had gone on long enough.

The failure was going to make leaving Belle Terre even more difficult.