Failing to find the planet, according to one friend, " virtually killed 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 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 to find actors that could convey the emotions they saw in the play, Goldwyn and Wyler had six of the original Kids ( Halop, Jordan, Hall, Punsly, Dell, and Leo Gorcey ) brought from New York to Hollywood for the film.

Failing to find work on the West Coast, Chayefsky returned to New York.

Failing to find another job at a news agency, he met producer Allan Burns at a party.

Failing to find a doctor capable of treating their young son Lorenzo's rare disease, Augusto and Michaela Odone sought their own cure.

Failing to find any support for a bill of rights, Martin and another Maryland delegate, John Francis Mercer, walked out of the convention.

Failing to find anybody to accept the money to reopen the park, Key West residents, under the auspices of the satirical micronation Conch Republic, sent a flotilla of civilian boats and fire department boats to Fort Jefferson in order to reopen the national park.

Failing to find them, he returned to Japan.

Failing to find a fortune in gold, he moved to San Francisco to resume a career in the mercantile.

Failing to find a way to the centre of affairs, the court of the Emperor, Xavier soon tired and left to Yamaguchi thus beginning the Yamaguchi period.

Failing to find a buyer, Key put it into storage.

Failing to find a suitable buyer, Fortis ceased all operations after October 23, 2006.

Failing to find a way through into the Weddell Sea, on 28 February 1898, de Gerlache's expedition became trapped in the ice of the Bellinghausen Sea, near Peter I Island.

Failing to find another suitable " Vinnie " for Martin's Coopersmith, Martin offered to take on the role of Vinnie himself.

Failing to find deals with major labels, the rest of the DeBarges, with Bobby now joining the fold, signed with the independent Striped Horse Records in 1987, later releasing what turned out to be their final studio album, Bad Boys.

Failing to find a proper teaching job, he returned to Ooty and re-established the Narayana Gurukulam.

Failing to find any Russians, he returned southward.

Failing to find a good defensive position south of Calhoun, Georgia, Johnston continued to Adairsville, while the Rebel cavalry fought a skillful rearguard action and kept Sherman away from Atlanta.

Failing to find anyone he began swimming and was found approximately 50 minutes later by an Air-Sea Rescue craft.

Failing to find employment in the established church, he joined the Methodists in 1784.

Failing to distinguish the two leads to a subject-object problem in which it is not clear who is evaluating what object.

" 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 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 in his principal enterprise, an attack upon Mopsuestia, he returned, but was again appointed to the command of a province.

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 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 to secure the support of either the Seljuk Turks or Nikephoros Melissenos ( both parties being his traditional enemies ), Nikephoros III was forced to abdicate in favour of the Komnenos dynasty, to which he was connected through the engagement of his grandson to the daughter of Alexios's older brother Manuel.

Failing to make the Detroit roster out of training camp, Henderson was assigned to their American Hockey League ( AHL ) affiliate, the Pittsburgh Hornets, to begin the 1963 – 64 season.

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 seize Dublin Castle, which was lightly defended, the rising amounted to a large-scale riot in the Thomas Street area.

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 make a substantial score in the series ( he tallied 26 runs in four innings ), Waugh was retained for the subsequent tour of New Zealand.

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

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 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 recognise the impact of digital photography was its downfall and while they still have a presence in Dumbarton, less than 100 people are now employed there ( mainly in the manufacture of sunglass lenses ).

Failing to use these imposed names in any kind of official communication was punishable.

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

Failing these objectives, each was likely either to withdraw from the UPC coalition or realign within it.

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 as suitor for the hand of Pauline Bonaparte, in 1801 he was sent by Napoleon, now first consul, to Saint Domingue and died there from yellow fever in 1802.

Failing to withstand repeated assaults by the forces of the neighbouring kingdom of Sitawaka, the city was abandoned by the Portuguese, who made Colombo their new capital.