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* Failing to take advantage of the time available to him between sighting the enemy and the start of fighting, to position his battlecruisers to most effectively attack the enemy.
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Failing and take
Failing to take the city in a series of assaults, the Portuguese siege camp was soon itself surrounded and starved into submission by a Moroccan relief army.
** Failing to take Halifax, the U. S. could occupy New Brunswick by land to cut Nova Scotia off from the rest of Canada at the key railway junction at Moncton.
Upon Failing, Trouvaille, whose body is dead yet whose essence now exists within his armor, joins them to take down Elisa and fulfill his experiments.
Failing to find another suitable " Vinnie " for Martin's Coopersmith, Martin offered to take on the role of Vinnie himself.
Failing to take prescribed medication is costly and wastes millions of usable medicines that could otherwise help other people.
Failing and advantage
Failing to gain a fall could still result in an advantage in riding time and potential nearfall points.
Failing and time
Failing to attend court on time as required is an offence, for which the maximum sentence in a magistrates ' court is three months ' imprisonment, or twelve months in the Crown Court.
Failing to find clerical duties at that time ( the Reign of Terror ), he took several posts in civil life, until on the appointment of Napoleon Bonaparte to the command of the French " Army of Italy " he became a commissary attached to that army.
" Failing this, decisions can be passed with a 90 % majority vote ; decisions that do not reach this threshold are given time " for more information to be gathered ", and the proposals are presented again later.
Failing to do so, he offered her his own life vest, which he proceeded to even tie on to her himself since she was holding her infant child in her arms at the time.
* Failing, as the coach, to replace a disqualified player within the allotted time ( charged to the coach )
Failing to obtain the property in time, the casino-hotel was developed from the existing " Main Street Park Hotel " on an $ 82 million budget by Florida developer Bob Snow in the image of his then-highly successful Orlando attraction in August, 1991.
Failing usually results in the student leaving the program or re-taking the test after some time has passed, usually a semester or a year.
Failing to win his first Shaman King tournament because of the combined efforts of the Asakura family to stop him, Hao was able to reincarnate with full awareness of his past life in time to participate in the next tournament.
Failing eyesight compelled Wechselmann to retire from active life in 1890, whereupon he devoted his time to philanthropic activity in Budapest.
Failing in these task is inevitable — like in the first, the inmates get hungry very quickly as time passes, and eventually someone puts the soup pot on Bobo's head ; and in the third an increasing number of guardsmen, dogs and inmates keep running through the hallway, staining the floor with their dirty shoes.
Failing and him
Failing to find him, the assassin selected Elisabeth when a Geneva newspaper revealed that the elegant woman traveling under the pseudonym of " Countess of Hohenembs " was the Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
Failing to find him at home, Adams reputedly left a manuscript of his solution, again without the detailed calculations.
Failing health obliged him to return to England ; and in 1808, then a lieutenant, he entered on a student career in the senior department of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.
" Failing to realize that he is in the same vehicle as a robber who is asking him what he knows about the hold-up, Bugs responds " Who, me?
Failing health ultimately constrained him to relinquish the attempt and to seek ( in 1827 ) a more congenial climate in Mexico.
Failing to make the bid requires him to pay each of his opponents instead and if one of the opponents win the game, the Ombre pays that player five times the value of the stake.
Failing an engineering class later, he passed after being personally tutored during the summer by George Washington Goethals, a brilliant engineer and assistant professor who took an interest in him.
Failing health obliged him to abandon the work of teaching, and he became, in 1876, pastor at Duffel.
Failing, they sedate him and make plans to evacuate Seatac, which they suspect the Optimen are about to genocidally purge of all life.
Failing to get along with him, Oleg had to flee to a distant Chernihivian domain on the Black Sea shore, called Tmutarakan.
Failing to secure Alexandrov's cooperation, the Comintern decided to discredit him and published the contents of the Manifesto on 28 July 1924 in the " Balkan Federation " newspaper.
Failing health compelled him to abandon the second or constructive part: the first, which attempts to show the ethical inadequacy of revealed religion and is marked in parts by much bitterness, was published in 1887 under the title of The Service of Man.
Failing health compelled him to retire from the high court in 1890, and he was then knighted and appointed a member of the viceroy's legislative council.
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