After a failed health care reform attempt, Republicans won control of Congress in 1994, for the first time in forty years.

Aurelian's attempt to reform the currency had failed ; the denarius was dead.

After repeated failed attempts at financial reform, Louis XVI was persuaded to convene the Estates-General, a representative body of the country made up of three estates: the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners.

He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.

The failed reform though led to the abolition of Imperial Examination in 1905.

A successful land reform was introduced that abolished giant landholdings, but efforts to redistribute land by placing limits on landownership failed.

However, Eastern Orthodox support was not forthcoming, and the reform failed.

In the summer of 2007, conservative talk show hosts mobilized public opposition to the McCain-Kennedy immigration reform bill, which eventually failed.

Government attempts to encourage agricultural colonization by means of land reform in the interior had largely failed in economic terms, as had the promotion of wheat production.

* Agis IV, Eurypontid King of Sparta who has failed in his attempt to reform Sparta's economic and political structure ( b. c. 265 BC )

Its three main objectives, the peace of Christendom, the crusade ( against the Turks ), and the reform of the church, could be secured only by general agreement among the powers, and either Leo or the council, or both, failed to secure such agreement.

Another suggested reform uniting all remaining five municipalities in the Berchtesgaden valley ( Bischofswiesen, Ramsau, Marktschellenberg and Schönau ) failed to gain enough popular support ; it passed in Berchtesgaden but failed everywhere else.

Jung noted that occasionally such experiences had been known to reform alcoholics where all else had failed.

Again this failed, so Louis convoked the Assembly of Notables in 1787 to discuss a revolutionary new fiscal reform proposed by Calonne.

The government also failed to meet its 1964 manifesto commitment to tie increases in national insurance benefits to increases in average earnings, although this reform would later be implemented during Wilson ’ s second premiership in 1975.

It was widely accepted that the Treaty of Nice has failed to deal with the basic question of wide-ranging institutional reform, the European Union institutions being widely viewed as overly complicated, and hence the establishment of the European Convention, leading to a new IGC in 2004, was agreed at Nice.

The Workers ' Party helped write the country's post-military government Constitution, ensuring strong constitutional guarantees for workers ' rights, but failed to achieve a proposed push for agrarian reform in the Constitutional text.

The Saxon troops of the IX Corps were now completely demoralised and any attempts to rally and reform them at Aderklaa towards 23: 00 failed.

“ Now is absolutely the right time to live up to our responsibility to reform our outdated pension system and to take action where the previous government failed to do so.

In October 1991, Prime Minister Kaifu Toshiki failed to attain passage of a political reform bill and was rejected by the LDP, despite his popularity with the electorate.

Later, in the summer of 1993, when the Miyazawa government also failed to pass political reform legislation, thirty-nine LDP members joined the opposition in a no-confidence vote.

Leach ’ s efforts to separate insurance from securities powers failed when the insurance agent lobby insisted any banking law reform include limits on bank sales of insurance.

The hearings highlighted the need for reform of the Company, and a vote to censure Clive for his actions failed.

Using secrecy to combat industrial espionage had failed to stop rival companies from reverse engineering the Mattel and Atari systems and hiring away their trained game programmers.

When Nortel ’ s share price on the Toronto Stock Exchange began a plunge that wiped out the life savings of many investors, Roth argued that Nortel's dominance reflected a failed industrial policy that sheltered enterprises from global competition.

Revitalization attempts began with the opening of a new industrial park and continued with joint government-private industrial mall which has failed to solve significantly higher rates of unemployment and poverty compared to Hampshire County.

The East Asian Tigers provided successful examples of heterodox interventions and protectionist industrial policies, industrial policies such as import-substitution-industrialization ( ISI ) has failed in many other regions such as Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa.

When the new Amendment was applied to the industrial North of England ( an area the law had never considered during reviews ), the system failed catastrophically as many found themselves temporarily unemployed, due to recessions or a fall in stock demands, so called ' cyclical unemployment ' and were reluctant to enter a Workhouse, despite it being the only method of gaining aid.

The route of the Lancashire-Yorkshire motorway was also considered inadequate as it failed to cater for several industrial towns in Yorkshire.

Contrary to the predictions of many socialists such as Lenin, the revolution failed to spread to Germany and other industrial Western European countries ( although there were massive upheavals of working people in some of these countries ), and consequently the Soviet state began to degenerate.

They failed to keep pace with technology from the industrial revolution becoming dependant on imported weapons.

His attempt to be elected to Parliament ( the Riksdag ) failed because of the domination of the Social Democrats in the industrial town of Eskiltuna, but in 1911 the Liberal Party gave him a seat in the upper house for the county of Gävleborg.

As the British industrialists left, the Indian trading community, which took over the British-owned industries and mines, failed to handle the situation properly, leading to labour trouble and industrial decline.

While Homer Pennock's industrial suburb failed, Chicago's rapid expansion transformed the area's farms into clusters of factories and homes.

While Homer Pennock's industrial suburb failed, Chicago's rapid expansion transformed the area's farms into clusters of factories and homes.

While Homer Pennock's industrial suburb failed, Chicago's rapid expansion transformed the area's farms into clusters of factories and homes.

While Homer Pennock's industrial suburb failed, Chicago's rapid expansion transformed the area's farms into clusters of factories and homes.

Johnson was head of the committee promoting Taft's $ 2 billion dollar state bond issue for industrial research and development and road construction on the November 2005 ballot, similar to the failed Third Frontier.

Efforts to transfer production to ECW in Lowestoft failed, again due to industrial relations problems, so it was finally decided that production would recommence at an expanded facility in Workington, which also built the Leyland National.

Germany had failed to maintain reparation payments in the years following the end of the Great War, and France in response occupied Germany ’ s industrial heartland, the Ruhr.

After a brief and failed attempt at working as a private attorney, he found an opportunity to work for the then two-year-old Hungarian Federation of Industrialists ( GYOSZ ), an organization which became key to the development of Hungary's primarily rural agricultural economic base, into an increasingly industrial one.

An industrial relations bill brought by Powers also failed.

Much of the Soviet era infrastructure has failed and the industrial capacity has floundered.