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of failing to believe God and stand on what they believe
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failing, filled his nostrils and gagging, he broke the spell
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failing to understand that they too hurt as he did, he chose a simple life
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They found their way where he would not, and wilfully failing to understand that they too hurt as he did, he chose a simple life
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‘I hope you won’t take it the wrong way, Karal, but I keep expecting to detect something alien … and failing
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Wrapped in the yellow haze of failing organs,
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white tile graduate, failing to comprehend the point
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I was shaking with fear at first and angry because Uncle just stood laughing while Auntie showered me in kisses and shouted at him for failing to protect me
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’ I told him, trying to sound matter of fact and failing miserably, even to my ears
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This of course is very true of an ill person, in fact any person failing in life could be deemed mentally ill, since they are not showcasing the mental skills and tools to live properly
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‘It’s a failing of mine, I’m afraid
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dilapidated and failing, locked into the decline that blighted so
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‘No, no, it’s not that …’ he said, failing completely to explain what exactly it is he is concerned about
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Jock makes his legitimate money by buying up failing farms, selling off the land and converting house and barns into holiday homes
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failing that brought this about and henceforth our
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He had heard stories about good friends who became lovers, failing
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’ I asked trying to be matter of fact about it, and failing
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Please be aware that Dan is now imprisoned in some sort of isolation vessel we are trying to locate him but up to now we are failing to even find out where he was last seen
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in the river with a stone tied around my neck for failing in
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Alfred had gotten over his funk about failing to pick up Alan from the river raft after a few months, as soon as he also began to deny that Alan was dead
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She knew her own social world was failing
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After failing for so long to so much as scratch him, he never actually thought it was possible to hit him, let alone land a lethal blow
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Streams of energy spilled from their fingertips, only to dissipate the instant it met the beings' empty forms, failing to even scratch their dark surfaces
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The one failing here is that we have no way to communicate with our body systems
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Pappi, a Pappi who was about to spoil his record of not failing a
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Mother, by letting desire for Andrastus cloud her judgment, by feeling joy rather than regret when she’d orphaned the children of opposing warriors, by failing to adequately honor the
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I stood still, trying to understand what had just happened, and failing to dispel the energy surging through me
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should have been no more than drops failing soothingly into a
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He missed the good times they had shared, but he was determined to get on with his life and tried hard to forget her – failing miserably
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whatever he had conjured earlier was failing him currently
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As a result, what could have been a pleasant and fruitful life for her was constantly interrupted by thoughts of ineptitude and feelings of despair due to her frightful failing to find peace in her daily journey ahead on the many and varied paths she followed
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Or failing that, a temple
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He cursed himself for failing to notice the post holes in the entryway when they first came through
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We remember how we have failed in the past, and have ideas about how we can avoid failing in the future
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And she wanted him to see that she was not failing in that, and would not allow herself to fail
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‘I never entirely understood what the agency’s post-brain research is all about,’ Monty said, trying to sound a little flippant and failing miserably
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’ Scott pushed himself off the chair, feeling his balance go, not knowing if it was the failing AG or the effect of the tranqs
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How many escort class vessels do we have ready to fly within the next thirty minutes?” replied Jim, failing to address Scott’s concerns
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‘I have limited ability to influence Species 7, but spreading knowledge of the other species and the consequences of failing to prepare is permitted
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From a human point of view, it would be necessary to somehow guide the parents over centuries, without failing once, in how to name their children, so that they would eventually form part of the genealogy, according to specific design criteria
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” He went on to tell us that every morning at first light and every evening at last light this Turkish sniper would be active and would shoot someone an Officer if he could a Sergeant at second best or failing this the bomb makers other marksmen and even the medics
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The number of predictions about future events contained within the Bible and the fact that we find that all events that have occurred in our past, came true with 100% accuracy, not failing once in accuracy or timing, should leave one with sobering thoughts about the events predicted for our future
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28 The odds of one person in history fulfilling so many prophecies by chance, without failing in at least one of them, are once again impossible according to our scientific standards
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trying to hide the fact that he was in pain, and failing, which made it very clear just how much
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People in universities spent years and millions of pounds failing to produce
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direction, following his own agenda, failing to
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“The thing is Billy Boy that her lungs are failing and in a while she wont be able to breath it’s a bit like consumption her lungs are filing with fluid and she is literally drowning
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I hereby confess to failing to understand how these degenerates have been able to rise so far in American politics
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And, our present federal government under Obama is certainly failing
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He would rather condemn poor children to failing schools than offend the teachers" unions
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was captured, a number of men were put on board as a crew and Captain Hawes was ordered to follow in the wake of the pirate; failing in that she would be fired into and destroyed
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The project was failing and I saw my opportunity
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Then she added a postscript which said ‘I will see you in heaven or failing that hell but which ever one I hope it is not for a long time yet’
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Whatever the case, his concentration was failing; his training was suffering as a result, both with the sword and the Power
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His mind was failing to function properly
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“And then?” he asked, trying to match her steady gaze and failing
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Head wounds are much more deadly according to statistics and if you couple this with the failing emergency services and hospitals, your chances for survival become even less! You may well die before the ambulance arrives a day later
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Grimes fired fifteen more rounds, and failing to evoke reply, he also ceased fire, and his men fell, exhausted by their efforts in the hot sun
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* On the cheetah incident I may be guilty of a failing memory for it seems the cheetah was more a leopard or something and not skinned but given to a taxidermist to play with and still exists because of it
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Paws dabbed about, thick claws tearing pieces from the jamb as they strained against the failing hook
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Failing to find one, he tutted in frustration, listening instead to the sounds of the forest– the rustling leaves, the shrill 'ke-wick' of a tawny owl, the steady tap of a wood boring beetle searching for food
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Addendum to the above: The greatest human failing is our (own) self-centered tendency of measuring our (own) self-worth by
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Had he heard something or were his old ears finally failing him?
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Not only is it illegal to commit war crimes, an officer or sergeant who fails to stop human rights violations can and should be prosecuted for failing to stop such crimes
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We need simply refer to the vast financial outlays (Corporate Welfare) being allocated for ―retraining‖ (reeducating!) purposes, as well as the dramatic rise in ―social costs‖ in order to appreciate the consequence(s) of our failing schools
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Many (young) adults are failing to measure up to the basic reading, writing and number skills required for ordinary jobs, not to mention the highly specialized skills required by more challenging working environments
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I would argue that spending inefficiencies rather than insufficient resources are the real culprits masking the (underlying) reasons why many of our public schools are failing; that along with disinterested teachers and a gradual departure from traditional values at home and in the classroom that money can not buy
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Roosevelt began the most famed part of his career as a bored rich man playing at being soldier, a dilettante and warmonger with little understanding of war who greatly exaggerated his own role in a minor skirmish against an outgunned enemy of draftees in a failing empire
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Johnson and Rutherford's guilt is in failing to stop this extermination and starvation tactic
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O‘Connor for failing to live up to his (O‘Connor‘s) politically correct standards of how an African American sports celebrity aught to behave; that is to say, by setting a proper ―example‖
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” The lynch victim had perhaps tried to vote, had spoken out publicly (especially ministers), or had committed a minor transgression like failing to get off the sidewalk or address someone white as “sir
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Libertarian economists like Milton Friedman claimed the opposite, that the government caused the Depression by failing to expand the money supply
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Failing, he gave it up, hands clenching and unclenching convulsively
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As a retired professor of civilization, language and culture I assign to them a just failing grade and to the reviled voters a deserved grade of “excellent”
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It’s their most common failing
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Thorne wants you to have the best,” she said, an accusation in her voice, as if it were a personal failing to want something other than what Dorian desired
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At the time, this was no uncommon failing
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The attorney hardly considered that failing to carry the license was an offense worthy of arrest, particularly, he said, when witnesses reported that Edgar caused the problem
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Wallace would take the side of oppressed people suffering under the failing British, Dutch, French, and Portuguese empires
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Activists had been trying and failing to pass the act for 27 years
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“Like a mariner upon the sea, the airman relies upon his compass, but the instrument has one failing
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And she had no intention of failing in that Quest
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The chairs remained where they had been, drawn close, yet they sipped their drinks with their eyes failing to connect and fidgeted uncomfortably
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It definitely had not occurred to him that his death might not come at the hands of an enemy by spear, sword, rock, arrow or fire, but because of failing to meet production quotas
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We could go on and on with ways in which governments are failing God
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He felt disoriented, his senses failing him; his vision was slightly blurry and unfocused
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That was his biggest failing, the breaking point when he had been canceled; when he had been turned into a shadow, a creeping thing that should cease to be
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“Does that happen with every stone? Are they not very precious to you? Is this why you are on a Pilgrimage? The stones are failing?”
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The Pilgrim barely touched the sand, his feet almost failing to impress themselves on the desert floor
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He hated the Patriarch with all his heart, but he hated himself even more for failing to do everything in his power to avert this damnable catastrophe unfolding before his eyes
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She ended up here, after failing a medical degree in some Third-World banana republic in the Caribbean
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So much of history lost to you by my failing attention
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“Like it had done so before, nine times! Nine times in the past! Nine times you were always blind to see afterwards! Nine times that the final victory was stolen from me, postponed! Cheated, nine times in fifteen thousand two hundred and thirty nine long standard years! Each time trying to find what was missing, each time trying to find what exactly had gone wrong, each time failing at the last possible minute! Each time laying waste to entire cities along with their populace, entire civilizations along with their pathetic little history trying to make my point, mark my win! Each time you pathetic little machine, you called it a draw! A draw!”
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Ludwig raised his brow and nodded, right before instinctively slapping his arm, failing to kill a mosquito
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Maybe I really want to do those things and I was actually being weak in failing to pursue truthfully my real goals? Perhaps what I always call weakness might really be the strength to do what I really want in a world of “should-nots” and “ought-nots” imposed on me by others
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There’s a big picture here that you’re simply failing to see
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Yes, Michelle, failing to take responsibility for a level of spending would be just like saying ‘I plan on lying to you, voters
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Their very success turned into their biggest failing
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dropping or failing later on
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A small number from Jerusalem even followed Paul to Ephesus, and then failing to dislodge him there they had moved on to other places where Paul had earlier organized communities of faith