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Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case, you fail by default."

business failure

For some companies their treatment of their employees or clients at any given time could affect their share prices and so inevitably have a great influence on the company’s success or failure.

He who wants to travel the path of wisdom must not fear failure, for no matter how much progress he makes, his goal remains unattainably far off.

Britain's currency crisis has turned into a political one over government failure to stop the pound from going into free-fall.

I think this not a method that I can really recommend unless you are willing to risk failure.

Kimura is a Tokyo university graduate who became a taxi driver. According to some people's standards, he might be considered a failure, but I think it's fine as long as he likes driving.

It has been said that a man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.

Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead; and if we understand that the challenges we face are shared, and our failure to meet them will hurt us all.

For any type of organisation, internal harmony and unity are important factors in deciding its success or failure.

It's not long gone failure, nor heroic deeds to come, but here and now, which you should consider.

The failure or inability of the younger and older generation to communicate and understand each other is often reffered to as "the gap generation".

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Especially over the last 20 years, the purported link between progressive welfare policies and economic failure in the Northern European countries seems to point to the difficulty of sustaining both full social welfare and international competitivity.

Calculating the risk which is involved in the event of failure, he demanded a show-down with the other party.

Our negotiations to lower export taxes suffered a big setback.

It's only a minor setback.

Automobile sales suffered a setback at the end of the financial year.

Today’s result was a major setback for the team.

A setback may cause you to take longer to succeed. It doesn't necessarily prevent you from succeeding.

However, I have recently heard that there have been setbacks during the parallel negotiations in Brussels.

He had been recovering, but he suffered a setback last week.

face the setbacks

this would be a setback to our plans

discussions are now taking place in the context of two major setbacks to American efforts in Afghanistan

Then yesterday she had a setback

Have you experienced any setbacks?

The company faced a big setback when their premises were burned down, but they vowed to recover quickly.

The construction had some delay due to unforeseen setbacks.

There were many setbacks in the development of the town.

I had a breakdown.

I think you're partly to blame for the negotiation breakdown.

He moved away after the breakdown of his marriage.

There's a breakdown on the line.

breakdown costs

We asked for a breakdown of the accident figures into day time and night time.

If Jane does not rest more, she may have a nervous breakdown.

... awakening sounds better than breakdown, but I assure you,...

This report includes a breakdown of how much each improvement to the office would cost

Tiredness and depression lead to nervous breakdown.

a communications breakdown

We’ll need to see a breakdown of these figures before we sign the contract.

According to experts, the main reason for the breakdown was a lack of progress in services and industry.

Can you prepare a breakdown of sales by product?

electricity breakdown

I hear he met with some kind of misfortune while he was in Europe.

She had one misfortune after another last year.

Never take advantage of another's misfortune.

Various misfortunes have made her sad and bitter.

He is misfortune.

Good luck alternates with misfortune.

There were rumors about a misfortune.

Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot.

She had to smile at her misfortune.

Eleanor though the daughter of a king and brought up in the greatest luxury determined to share misfortune with her husband.

The duty of politicians is to serve the people and prevent misfortune.

Years of resistance to misfortune ended when the settlers' village was overcome by the savages and their hopes and lives came to the bitter end.

What greater misfortune is there than to go blind?

Turn your misfortune to account.

Wherever she went, misfortune followed.