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But when you let the government take people's children without due process and detain people indefinitely without access to council, you are failing the test.
We're, in a sense, failing to act in the future.
And you might think, well, "Boy, your life support system was failing you.
When we think about failing in life, when we think about failure, one of the reasons why we fear failing is not just a loss of income, a loss of status.
Arguably the financial markets have failed us and the aid system is failing us, and yet I stand firmly with the optimists who believe that there has probably never been a more exciting moment to be alive.
They wished they knew how to prevent their food supply from sometimes failing, and how they could rest when they were tired without risking starvation, be warmer, cooler, safer, in less pain.
Because there is this asymmetry, which creates, basically, failing governance.
Failing governance in many areas: in the area of corruption and the area of destruction of the environment, in the area of exploitation of women and children, in the area of climate change, in all the areas in which we really need a capacity to reintroduce the primacy of politics into the economy, which is operating in a worldwide arena.
And this is the phenomenon which I call failing governance, because when I then came to Germany and started this little NGO here in Berlin, at the Villa Borsig, we were told, "You cannot stop our German exporters from bribing, because we will lose our contracts.
So this is what I mean with a failing governance structure, because even the powerful government, which we have in Germany, comparatively, was not able to say, "We will not allow our companies to bribe abroad."
I believe that what we managed to achieve in fighting corruption, one can also achieve in other areas of failing governance.
Well, we can learn a lot because our education systems are failing desperately in many ways.
Failing that, visualized information can just look really cool.
Don't feel too bad about failing the first pop quiz, because everybody fails all of the pop quizzes all of the time.
The script is the first failing, and as I understand it, if the script stinks, there's nothing that can fix that.
I mean they make jokes about her mom driving a rusty old truck, her mom smashing an old TV with a bat, and then there's the jokes about Sam failing in school, getting detention all the time and running from cops.
Also, the camera work was often sloppy, attempting snatchlike camera work and failing miserably.
The good guy in a bad situation, the struggle between older and younger priest on acceptance and discipline, the repressed, sexually/emotionally deprived woman returning to the small town after failing in the big city, engaged to the hotheaded, feeble minded beau from youth, the unredeemable bad guys, two "lost boys" looking for a sense of family - they're all here, and none of them with even the remotest spin of something new.
As a result Fun with Dick and Jane is not an appropriate title and I was just plain disappointed failing to see any fun with Dick and Jane.
I hope that the filmmakers realized after trying and failing again that this movie is unrepairable.
Failing on most occasions.
For a start it is pretentious, striving to be "significant" and failing miserably.
It is always hard to brink a book onto film and unfortunatley this one ends up failing...... 3 out of 10
As the title suggests there is a philosophical, meritocratic thread running through this film: if a man has the talent and looks to find his way into society and money what might be the outcome if he is denied it for failing to have the X factor?
Kuzco has to prevent himself from failing, Yzma has a complicated plan, but decides to go the easy way to save time and just use a potion, someone questions the monkey and the bug, Bucky appears in the background, Kuzco flirts with Malina, she disses him without sounding like a bitch, Yzma disguises herself as "Principal Amzy" and she calls Kronk, and he forgets that she is Yzma.
Kuszko (spelling?) is in danger of failing school, he needs to pass to become emperor.
When failing they call on Captain Comelius who instructs his crew to fight back.
This is something in between, failing in both areas.
Throw in a flashlight with failing batteries, a cow skull with fangs glued on it for a monster, and one of the stupidest "twist" climaxes ever put on film.
With such a wreck of a human being in the midst of failing health and aptitude, one would assume a dedicated assistant would go to great lengths to protect his boss (and his future), yet servant Tom Courtenay prods and badgers and goads Finney to carry on rather than rest.
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