A failure of a nation to meet bond repayments has been seen on many occasions.

; Heart failure: Failure of the heart to produce sufficient blood flow to meet metabolic demands of the body.

He punishes his guards for failure in their duties and the guards meet their horrible ends at the hands of the sadistic Bolo ( Bolo Yeung ), Han's chief bodyguard.

The failure of his followers to meet his high standard may have contributed to demise of Modernism and the rise of new competing design theories following his death.

* A compliance regime that outlined consequences for failure to meet emissions targets but deferred to the parties to the Protocol, once it came into force, the decision on whether those consequences would be legally binding ;

* October 11 – Cold War: Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe ( the talks break down in failure ).

Among the World Bank Group's credit enhancement and guarantee products, the IBRD offers policy-based guarantees to cover countries ' sovereign default risk, partial credit guarantees to cover the credit risk of a sovereign government or subnational entity, and partial risk guarantees to private projects to cover a government's failure to meet its contractual obligations.

On May 6, 2011, Priszm Income Fund was delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange for failure to meet the continued listing requirements.

Failure to use good form during a training set can result in injury or a failure to meet training goals ; since the desired muscle group is not challenged sufficiently, the threshold of overload is never reached and the muscle does not gain in strength.

For example, a hedge fund can degenerate into a Ponzi scheme if it unexpectedly loses money ( or simply fails to legitimately earn the returns promised and / or thought to be expected ) and the promoters, instead of admitting their failure to meet expectations, fabricate false returns and, if necessary, produce fraudulent audit reports.

The failure to meet cull targets was confirmed in February 2011.

Confucius ( 6th c. BCE ) famously emphasized the moral commitment implicit in a name, ( zhengming ) stating that the moral collapse of the pre-Qin was a result of the failure to rectify behaviour to meet the moral commitment inherent in names: " Good government consists in the ruler being a ruler, the minister being a minister, the father being a father, and the son being a son ...

The criticisms of past methods include failure to meet standard psychometric properties as well as research-specific designs that translate poorly to non-research use.

* King Antiochus IV Epiphanes, believing Judea to be in revolt, returns to there after the failure of his Egyptian campaign and orders his soldiers to cut down without mercy those whom they meet and to slay those who have taken refuge in their houses.

At the same time, the Bank of Canada began to raise interest rates in order to meet a zero inflation target ; the experiment was regarded as a failure that exacerbated the effect of the recession in Canada.

His attempts to treat Two-Face meet with failure, however, and he ends up murdered by the Joker along with the entire audience of a late night talk show when he is manipulated into bringing the Joker out in public as an example of Batman's ' victims '.

It should be pointed out that this major re-organisation did not arise from a fundamental failure of the existing arrangements, but an understanding that the old system might not meet modern conditions.

First signs of the disease, which include intractable seizures and failure to meet meaningful developmental milestones, usually occur in infancy, after the first year of life, but sometimes as late as the fifth year.

In 2007, the village transferred its offices and the police department from its location at North Main Street, primarily to address the old village hall's limited space and failure to meet mandated handicapped-accessibility requirements.

Upset about the costs, the fact that the casino is a failure, and that $ 2 million of the budget is unaccounted for, Meyer Lansky asks Bugsy to meet him in Los Angeles.

Each side placed the responsibility entirely with the other ; the FBU said that their employers ' failure to meet their demands was the cause of the strike.

Originally priced at $ 13. 5 million, its failure to meet its aggressive performance estimates forced the price to be dropped to only $ 7. 78 million and its withdrawal from sales to customers beyond those having already negotiated contracts.

In spite of Stretch's failure to meet its own performance goals, it served as the basis for many of the design features of the fantastically successful IBM System / 360, which shipped in 1964.

* Software bug, a failure of computer software to meet requirements

In states such as Washington, critics have questioned whether this ensures success for all or just creates massive failure ( as only half of all 10th graders have demonstrated they can meet the standards ).

While connecting it to Mega Drive did increase its capabilities, reluctance to adapt due to the previous failure of the Mega-CD and the upcoming Sega Saturn system led to low sales and a short lifespan.

Other factors in the prolongation of the Great Depression include trade wars and the reduction in international trade caused by trade barriers such as Smoot-Hawley Tarriff in the US and the Imperial Preference policies of Great Britain, the failure of central banks to act responsibly, government policies designed to prevent wages from falling, such as the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931, during the deflationary period resulting in production costs dropping slower then sales prices and thereby injuring business profitability and increases in taxes to reduce budget deficits and to support new programs such as Social Security.

In addition to Numa's commercial failure, a lack of radio play ( his records were removed from the BBC Radio 1 playlist ) and sales drained the fortune ( he estimated £ 4. 5 million ) Numan had amassed in the late 1970s.

As the market evolved, however, despite the failure of MCA, IBM derived a considerable income from license fees from companies who paid for licenses to use IBM patents that were in the PC design — to the extent that IBM's emphasis changed from discouraging PC clones to maximizing its revenue from license sales.

Citing the previous government's failure to successfully negotiate acceptable commercial loans or bond sales to cover its budget deficit, the government formed by Sir Mekere Morauta in July 1999 successfully requested emergency assistance from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Despite significant accolades – and decent sales in France and Japan – it was a sales failure ( moving less than 120, 000 copies ) in the United States.

Discouraged with their label's failure to resolve the problems, and with both momentum and potential album sales lost, the band once again went on hiatus.

The combined effects of the Infinity Records failure, the purchase of ABC Records, rising vinyl costs and a huge slump in record sales produced tremendous losses for the company between 1979 and 1982.

This example of a funding problem followed the failure to pass of a bond measure and cessation of federal funding for counties with dwindling timber revenue, in a state with no sales tax.

Kaypro founder Andy Kay re-emerged from the final failure of Kaypro with a second company, called Kay Computers, utilizing a similar sales strategy.

Paul's Boutique was initially considered a commercial failure by the executives at Capitol Records, as its sales did not match that of the group's previous record, Licensed to Ill, and the label eventually decided to stop promoting the album.

The land sales were a complete failure, and the lots around the railway were not sold until the 1950s and 1960s.

Bloomberg said Goldman Sachs helped YRCW complete the debt swap after the ‘ Teamsters Union said the bank was trying to profit from a failure of the largest U. S. trucker by sales .”

The film was a failure in American theaters, with ticket sales under $ 5 million.

The press accused Dick O ' Dell of releasing the albums purely to buoy up Y Records ' finances, which were in trouble following the failure of most of their roster to make significant sales ( with the possible exception of Shriekback, who instead fell out with O ' Dell and left the label.

MiniScribe ’ s failure centered on one of the first major accounting scandals in the computer industry ; after losing a supply contract with IBM's PC division in 1985, MiniScribe falsified its sales records for several years before being discovered in 1989.

Things got worse with his 1978 album " All You Need Is the Music ," which was a dismal failure, because as Sedaka attempted to release disco-themed music himself in the late 1970s, his album sales were weak and singles could not get a foothold on the radio.

The album was a commercial failure and had low sales.

With total sales over its lifetime of just 330, 000 units in more than 10 years and the fact that its replacement took 5 years to arrive, the XM might be considered a failure.

Rule 10b-5 has been employed to cover insider trading cases, but has also been used against companies for price fixing ( artificially inflating or depressing stock prices through stock manipulation ), bogus company sales to increase stock price, and even a company's failure to communicate relevant information to investors.

Badge engineering can also hurt overall sales by resulting in " cannibalism " between two or more brands owned by the same company, by failing to develop a distinct image for each brand, or by allowing the failure of one version of a model to carry over to its rebadged " siblings.

The dishonesty of those who conducted the sales in France, the unbusinesslike methods of Barlow, and the failure of Duer and his associates to meet their contract with the Ohio Company, caused the collapse of the Scioto Company early in 1790, and two subsequent attempts to revive it failed.

Macomb's enterprise was a failure ; contrary to his expectations, sales of land did not keep pace with the due dates for payments.