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failure and achieve
Progress is impeded by psychological inhibitions to effective action among those in power and by a failure on their part to understand how local resources, human and material, can be mobilized to achieve the national goals of modernization already symbolically accepted.
Believing himself to be in a state of disgrace with Hitler over his failure to achieve the British alliance, Ribbentrop spent December 1937 in a state of depression, and together with his wife, wrote two lengthy documents for Hitler denouncing Britain.
Unlike the other factions, Ribbentrop's foreign policy programme was the only one that Hitler allowed to be executed during the years 1939 – 41, though it was more due to the temporary bankruptcy of Hitler's own foreign policy programme that he had laid down in Mein Kampf and Zweites Buch following the failure to achieve an alliance with Britain, than to a genuine change of mind.
As Kenneth Muir writes, " Macbeth has not a predisposition to murder ; he has merely an inordinate ambition that makes murder itself seem to be a lesser evil than failure to achieve the crown.
With the failure of Magna Carta to achieve peace or restrain John, the barons reverted to the more traditional type of rebellion by trying to replace the monarch they disliked with an alternative.
To achieve victory, deep operations comprehend simultaneous Corps-and Army-size unit maneuvers of simultaneous parallel attacks throughout the depth of the enemy's ground forces, inducing catastrophic defensive failure.
If a system failure is catastrophic, usually the only practical way to achieve 10 < sup >− 9 </ sup > per hour failure rate is through redundancy.
Two redundant systems with independent failure modes, each having an MTBF of 100, 000 hours, could achieve a failure rate on the order of 10 < sup >− 10 </ sup > per hour because of the multiplication rule for independent events.
This may be by preventing the failure before it actually occurs which Planned Maintenance and Condition Based Maintenance help to achieve.
In casual usage, the label " prisoner's dilemma " may be applied to situations not strictly matching the formal criteria of the classic or iterative games: for instance, those in which two entities could gain important benefits from cooperating or suffer from the failure to do so, but find it merely difficult or expensive, not necessarily impossible, to coordinate their activities to achieve cooperation.
Later this capability was given the misleading name " negation as failure " because for a goal < tt > G </ tt > it was possible to say: " if attempting to achieve < tt > G </ tt > exhaustively fails then assert < tt >( Not G )</ tt >.
There are a legion of would-be screenwriters who attempt to enter the film industry but it often takes years of trial-and-error, failure, and gritty persistence to achieve success.
In modern language, the phrase " to do a Devon Loch " is sometimes used to describe a last-minute failure to achieve an expected victory.
The USSR attempted to launch a second Salyut-class station designated Durable Orbital Station-2 ( DOS-2 ) on 29 July 1972, but a rocket failure caused it to fail to achieve orbit.
Failure of treatment with penicillin is generally attributed to other local commensal organisms producing β-lactamase, or failure to achieve adequate tissue levels in the pharynx.
Following the failure of China's first democratic system to achieve a stable government, the country descended into decades of warlordism.
Unable to achieve much else, Platov and Uvarov moved back to their own lines and the action was perceived as a failure by both Kutuzov and the Russian General Staff.
Writing in the psychoanalytic tradition, Kernberg argued that failure to achieve the developmental task of psychic clarification of self and other can result in an increased risk to develop varieties of psychosis, while failure to overcome splitting results in an increased risk to develop a borderline personality.
Among the reasons cited for decommissioning of the Peacekeeper ICBM was its failure to achieve the program's range objectives.
For example, the Insecticide Resistance Action Committee ( IRAC ) definition of insecticide resistance is ' a heritable change in the sensitivity of a pest population that is reflected in the repeated failure of a product to achieve the expected level of control when used according to the label recommendation for that pest species '.
Appropriate design factors are based on several considerations, such as the accuracy of predictions on the imposed loads, strength, wear estimates, and the environmental effects to which the product will be exposed in service ; the consequences of engineering failure ; and the cost of over-engineering the component to achieve that factor of safety.

failure and peace
Recognizing that there could have been no effective negotiated peace with Hitler, he points out the shocking failure to give support to the anti-Nazi underground, which very nearly eliminated Hitler in 1944.
Chapters 1: 1-2: 5 are thus a confession of failure ; chapters 2: 6-3: 6 are a major summary and reflection from the Deuteronomists, setting out the over all formula which the stories in the main text will follow: Israel " does evil in the eyes of Yahweh ;" the people are given into the hands of their enemies and cry out to Yahweh ; Yahweh raises up a leader ; the " spirit of Yahweh " comes upon the leader, the enemy is defeated, and peace is regained.
In Spain, the failure of the second bourgeois revolution was followed by a period of uneasy peace for the next decade.
This proved a disastrous failure ; Henry's younger brother Ferdinand was given as a hostage to guarantee that the Portuguese would fulfill the terms of the peace agreement that had been made with Çala Ben Çala.
The fighting stopped in autumn and was resumed only in 1017 after the failure of peace talks.
While some have criticized Bukharin for this apparent U-turn, his change of emphasis can be partially explained by the necessity for peace and stability following seven years of war in Russia, and the failure of Communist Revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe, which ended the prospect of worldwide revolution.
However, after the failure of the peace process and the activation of Plan Colombia, Álvaro Uribe Vélez was elected President in 2002, starting a massive attack on terrorist groups, with cooperation from civil population, foreign aid and legal armed forces.
* August 30 – after the failure of the Council of Liubech in 1097, the Congress of Vytechev establishes the peace and the feudal system in Kievan Rus, the princes come to an agreement to share the country between them and Sviatopolk II of Kiev becomes the first Grand Prince.
The news of this failure increased the disorder in Germany, but the king met with some success in his efforts to restore peace.
In response his failure to gain control over Saxony, Henry II promise to hold future peace negotiations and then headed for the Duchy of Bavaria.
The failure of the campaign of 1760, wielded by the inept Count Buturlin, induced the court of Versailles, on the evening of 22 January 1761, to present to the court of Saint Petersburg a dispatch to the effect that the king of France by reason of the condition of his dominions absolutely desired peace.
* Following the failure of peace negotiations between Athens and Sparta, a number of Spartans stranded on the island of Sphacteria after the Battle of Pylos are attacked by an Athenian force under Cleon and Demosthenes.
After the comparative failure of Edward's campaign in the winter of 1359 – 60 ( the Dauphin did not offer battle and pursued a ' scorched earth ' policy with the populace seeking shelter in the walled towns while the English endured terrible weather ) a final peace treaty was agreed between Edward III and John II at Brétigny, while John II concluded a separate peace with Charles of Navarre at Calais.
Human sacrifice was not a particularly common occurrence among the Germanic peoples, being resorted to in exceptional situations arising from crises of an environmental ( crop failure, drought, famine ) or social ( war ) nature, often thought to derive at least in part from the failure of the king to establish and / or maintain prosperity and peace ( árs ok friðar ) in the lands entrusted to him.
Immediately following the failure of the peace talks, orders were sent out from Sparta to the Spartan king Cleombrotus, who was at the head of an army in Phocis, commanding him to march directly to Boeotia.
Clinton blamed Arafat after the failure of the talks, stating, " I regret that in 2000 Arafat missed the opportunity to bring that nation into being and pray for the day when the dreams of the Palestinian people for a state and a better life will be realized in a just and lasting peace.
Combined with their failure to pacify the Transvaal, Smuts ' success left the United Kingdom with no choice but to offer a ceasefire and a peace conference, to be held at Vereeniging.
One of the goals was to elect one delegate per million inhabitants to a People's World Constitutional Convention given the already then visible failure of the United Nations to create global institutions able to really negotiate world peace.
In it, Feith argued that the Oslo Accords were being undermined by Yasser Arafat's failure to fulfill peace pledges and Israel's failure to uphold the integrity of the accords it had concluded with Arafat.
This embassy may have been an attempt to reach some kind of peace agreement, and it has even been suggested that the failure of these hypothetical negotiations led to the Athenian decision to support the Egyptian revolt.

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