The failure made me feel inadequate to the point that I thought of taking my life.

One year of disappointment, then, does not a failure make.

"Their failure to give an explanation makes this more of an issue than it has to be."

A failure of the telephone system during the organizing period would have made things more difficult.

The failure of his production company eventually made him retire from the big screen in the early 1970s.

The failure to deal with these problems makes improvement in this segment of the school population difficult.

"The disappointment and failure that we went through last year made for a long summer," Terry said.

"Yet the failure of that equality makes a great many people unhappy."

The failure of decontamination did not make news until the final reports came out a year later.

Failure would have made the President look impotent on the economic issues that stand quite clearly at the center of national politics.