If a private meeting fails, meet with them and several witnesses.

A further meeting on Jan. 24, 1990, failed to make any progress.

Another meeting on 26 September 2011 failed, as well.

A third meeting in 1959 again failed to reach agreement over Germany.

He almost hoped this meeting would fail to produce a settlement.

If the meetings fail, he said, the Americans would decide "what next steps to take."

No hostages were released and the meeting failed to materialize until much later.

Sure enough, the much anticipated meeting fails to go as planned.

The meeting failed; the two sides went home without agreement.

This need to maintain the hostile division is the real reason all official meetings have failed so far.