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The bishops also noted that the carefully balanced recommendations proposed by the Primates at their meetings in Dromantine and Dar es Salaam have been abandoned in favor of these new proposals without acknowledgement that the primary reason for their failure was their unilateral rejection by the Episcopal Church.

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  1. noun The condition or fact of not achieving the desired end or ends: the failure of an experiment.
  2. noun One that fails: a failure at one's career.
  3. noun The condition or fact of being insufficient or falling short: a crop failure.
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  • In all but a few cases, the reason for the failure was the opposition of the target company's board. —  Internet Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
  • But he also spoke candidly about what he described as his failure and gave a frank assessment of his track record, as he prepares to run for re-election next year. —  Palestine Blogs aggregator
  • It turned out that the cause of the failure was a software error in the inertial reference system. —  CNET News.com
  • This failure has been accentuated by the roaring success of probiotic drinking and spoonable yogurts in North America with Danone subsidiary Dannon reporting strong sales in the sector. —  FoodAndDrinkEurope RSS
  • And gloating over their failure is arch-rival Kalraj Mishra. —  rediff.com
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  1. Alteration of failer, default, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French faillir, to fail; see fail.

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  1. =Italian fallura; as fail + -ure.
 

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