Even inspection of ships under way would fail to reveal this.

But neither was he ready to tell the Security Council that inspections had failed as a tool for disarmament.

The first inspections had failed to turn up any evidence of a nuclear program.

A Federal inquiry showed that inspections had failed to find small cracks in the fuselage of the 19-year-old jet.

Everyone involved entered the process knowing that war would be likely if the inspections fail.

But the Greek camp is no less guilty, as an inspection of their society cannot fail to show.

But the inspections have failed not because of a shortage of inspectors.

He said it should be up to the weapons inspectors to decide how much time they need and when to declare that the inspections have failed.

I think that we want inspections to fail and that war is our first resort.

If the current inspection fails, the Administration is likely to move toward sanctions.