Many commercial undertakings failed owing to high energy costs, technical problems or poor acceptability.

His last commercial undertaking, a five-story flour mill, built in 1835, failed in part due to the Panic of 1837.

Fines of up to 5% of the average daily turnover may also be levied for every day an undertaking fails to comply with Commission requirements.

Such undertakings had uniformly failed, but he had always been willing to try again.

When the common undertaking fails, they are still spared the one thing they fear most, namely, the showing up of their individual shortcomings.

He built a mill on the east branch of the Oswegatchie and made some small improvements; but his undertaking failed.

To this day, every undertaking has failed miserably.

Almost no progress has been made in transforming real estate into something that trades like winter wheat, and some ambitious undertakings have failed in the process.

Western reporters, he implied, had come to an early conclusion that the allied undertaking in Iraq would not succeed, and had failed to adjust.

He was joined by Lord Eure and some London merchants, but the undertaking failed,.