Failing in his efforts to defraud the wealthy landowners, he then turned to robbing the poor by selling them land that he did not own.

* Failing at repeated efforts to control computer use.

According to John G. Nicolay, one of Lincoln's private secretaries and a later biographer of the Civil War president, " Failing in this direct application, they made further efforts through Mr. Justice Campbell of the Supreme Court ... who came to Seward in the guise of a loyal official, though his correspondence with Jefferson Davis soon revealed a treasonable intent.

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 to reach this requirement for two consecutive semesters results in dismissal from the program.

Failing to heed the lesson so clearly contained in the satellite treaties, President Truman re-declared the Cold War on March 12, 1947, in the Truman Doctrine, exactly one week after the Herald Tribune editorial was written, and a year after the Cold War had been announced by Churchill at Fulton, Missouri, in Truman's presence.

* Failing to ensure that signals sent to his ships were handled properly and received by the intended ships.

Failing to prevent the Germans from surrounding Leningrad however, he was dismissed from that post and replaced by the far abler Georgy Zhukov on 8 September 1941.

Failing that, Ximénez forces the victim to sit in the " comfy chair ", and states that the victim will get " only a cup of coffee at 11 " o ' clock and makes the torture " worse by shouting a lot ".

Failing a military outcome, sieges can often be decided by starvation, thirst or disease, which can afflict either the attacker or defender.

Failing to obtain a green light from the government, though with Allon's consent, on Passover in 1968, a group led by Rabbi Moshe Levinger rented the main hotel in Hebron as Swiss tourists, with Haim Drukman presiding over seder, and then refused to leave.

Failing that, another solution was to open the cartridge, cut the tape at the splice, and relieve the excess tension by manually unwinding one or two sections from the outer edge of tape ( loop length ) while keeping the reel stationary, then re-splicing the tape, with a fresh piece of foil ( since the old foil was usually caked with built-up graphite reducing conductivity and making it difficult to change tracks ).

Failing to maintain tonsure was the equivalent of attempting to abandon one's clerical state, and in the 1917 Code of Canon Law, any cleric in minor orders ( or simply tonsured ) who did not resume the tonsure within a month after being warned by his Ordinary, lost the clerical state.

Failing to send scouting parties they were ambushed by the Turks, and completely encircled at the Battle of Melitene.

Failing in their attempts to get jobs and boyfriends, Romy and Michele decide to pretend to be successful by showing up in an expensive car and business suits.

Failing to bring any titles to Stavanger, Hareide was sacked by the club on 9 June 2012.

Failing to meet his enemy he returned to Cisalpine Gaul by sea, and sent his army on to Hispania under the command of his brother Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus with instructions to hold the Carthaginian forces there in check.

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 ordinary warning signals or crossing mental barrier by strong will may lead to shallow water blackout or deep water blackout.

** 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.

Failing in an attempt to arrange terms, and also in obtaining the help which he solicited from France, O ' Neill was utterly routed by the O ' Donnells again at the battle of Farsetmore near Letterkenny ; and seeking safety in flight, he threw himself on the mercy of his enemies, the MacDonnells.

Failing to do so is condemned by these Lutherans as the sin of unionism.

Failing to conduct operations to reconquer the territories lost in 1187, he maintained the kingdom within its limits, a policy of peace with Al-Adil I, brother of Saladin, who had come to his estate by eliminating the other heirs.

Failing by a margin of 180 votes to win a seat in the Norwegian parliamentary election, 1989, Høybråten did not hold a seat in the Parliament of Norway until elected in 2005.

Failing to escape to the island, the king took refuge at the Namhan Mountain Fortress, which was immediately besieged by the Manchu army.

Failing to conduct the ritual properly he had to be dispatched by his brother-in-law.

In 1995 he premiered a one-man " opera " Failing Kansas, based on the same story as Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and in 2000 he produced an entire film with music by himself, rather pointedly titled Funding.

* Failing growth and rampant costs: two ghosts in the machine of modern capitalism by Michael Kidron, 2002

* Failing to provide personal details upon request to a PCSO

* ' Makes Off ' Failing to provide correct personal details upon request to a PCSO

Failing to find the planet, according to one friend, " virtually killed him ".

Failing in this attempt, they retired to Jerusalem, and then home.

Failing in these undertakings the Spartans built a wall of circumvallation, left enough troops to guard the walls, then retired.

Failing that, Miller's lawyers asked that she be sent to a women's facility in Danbury, Connecticut, nearer to " Ms. Miller's 76-year-old husband ", retired book publisher Jason Epstein, who lives in New York City, and whose state of health was the subject of a confidential medical report filed by Miller's attorneys.

Failing to make the Test side, he retired shortly after.

Failing in their mission to capture most of the horses and mules, the Indians then retired from the field and the battle was over.

Failing to find what was wanted, as was most likely, check out other guests, with special -- but not exclusive -- attention to those with rooms on the street.

Failing to escape on board a ship, he stabbed himself ; and, as he did not die at once, insisted on being taken to the mausoleum in which Cleopatra was shut up, and there died in her arms.

Failing to receive redemption in the church, Charlie seeks it through sacrificing himself on Johnny's behalf.

Failing to qualify for the post season for the second straight year, the Saints found themselves struggling on defense.

Failing to receive help from Tibet, the Druk Desi signed a Treaty of Peace with the British East India Company on April 25, 1774.

Failing to make a commercial success on the stage, however, and finding that the stresses of theatrical work were difficult to sustain, he returned to the writing of long, serialised novels, which again became the mainstay of his income.

Failing to convince the Whittakers that his group are Norwegians ( all of the Russians are conspicuously dressed in sinister all-black clothing ), Rozanov draws a gun and promises no harm if the family provides information about military on the island ( none ) and police force ( small ), and gives them keys to their car.

* Failing to comply with the restrictions on methods to kill animals and birds ( see Part I: Wildlife for further details ).

* Failing to comply with the restrictions on methods to kill animals and birds ( see Part I: Wildlife for further details ).

* Failing to comply with the restrictions on methods to kill animals and birds ( see Part I: Wildlife for further details ).

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 disperse the delegates, Louis started to recognize their validity on 27 June.

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 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 recover his health, Mathews died poor in Plymouth in June 1835, without appearing again on a British stage.

Failing to win their claims on a diplomatic level, Albanians embarked on the route of military conflict with their Balkan neighbours.