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Failing and receive
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 receive aid from Pozzo di Borgo, his mother's uncle, Louis Blanc studied law in Paris, living in poverty, and became a contributor to various journals.

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

Failing and through
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 evolve into the " modern " system of an absolutist and national monarchy, the Commonwealth suffered a gradual decline down to the brink of anarchy, through liberum veto and other abuses of the system.
Failing to break through again, the Chinese suffered heavy casualties before the assault ended.
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 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 that, they assembled a diversion and escaped through a passage located in the sewers of New Port City.
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 himself
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 recover his patrimony, he abandoned Umbria, and at the age of twenty-two established himself at Naples, which continued to be his chief place of residence during a long and prosperous career.
Failing to establish himself in Weimar's literary circles, he moved to Berlin, where he edited Der Freimutige in collaboration with Garlieb Merkel from 1803 to 1807.
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.
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 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 to establish himself in London, Hoare settled in Bath, an expanding spa town popular with the wealthier classes.
Failing to find another suitable " Vinnie " for Martin's Coopersmith, Martin offered to take on the role of Vinnie himself.
Failing that, he sets himself up as General and President for life in the African Republic of Burunda.
Failing to support himself as a portrait painter, he tried producing short films.
Failing that, he intended to commit seppuku himself.

Failing and on
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 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 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 qualify for the post season for the second straight year, the Saints found themselves struggling on defense.
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 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 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 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, owing to Walpole's interference, in his efforts to procure the dismissal of a colleague and his replacement by a personal friend, Townshend retired on 15 May 1730.
Failing to win their claims on a diplomatic level, Albanians embarked on the route of military conflict with their Balkan neighbours.

Failing and .
Failing this, he would pull alongside at the first opportunity and shake his fist threateningly.
Failing in his principal enterprise, an attack upon Mopsuestia, he returned, but was again appointed to the command of a province.
" Failing his eleven plus exam at the conclusion of his Burnt Ash Junior education, Bowie joined Bromley Technical High School.
Failing that a circumscribed sphere, inscribed sphere, or midsphere ( one with all edges as tangents ) can be used.
* Failing to engage the German battlecruiser squadron with all his ships, thus throwing away a two to one numerical superiority and instead fighting one-to-one.
* 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.
* Failing to ensure that signals sent to his ships were handled properly and received by the intended ships.
* Failing in his role as fast armoured scout to report to Jellicoe the exact position of the German ships he encountered, or to keep in contact with the German fleet while he retreated to the main British Grand Fleet.
Failing an answer, it turns out that Ethical Egoism is an arbitrary doctrine, in the same way that racism is arbitrary.
Failing in this attempt, they retired to Jerusalem, and then home.
Emotional states are just one of the many factors that have been found to effect this process of forgetting. Failing to retrieve an event does not mean that this specific event has been forever forgotten.
Failing his military culture exam, he graduated from high school in July 1938 after doubling the exam.
Failing to keep the base of the case cool can anneal the case near the head, where it must remain hard to function properly.
Failing this, the court must decide for the petitioner, who may be any person, not just an interested party.
Failing there, they turned to the peasants.
Failing to remember something in the situation in which it would have been useful leads to regret.
Failing that, a devoicing diacritic is added to the approximant.
Failing a military outcome, sieges can often be decided by starvation, thirst or disease, which can afflict either the attacker or defender.

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