non-achievement

A country that habitually blame fatigue for 45-years of non-achievement finds itself playing a Euro 2008 qualifier 10 days before the start of Royal Ascot, then Holland, in a friendly, three days before the 2011-12 Premier League campaign starts.

Endless sprawl of fixtures fills cups with thin gruel and a bad taste | Paul Hayward 2011

But today more parents are finding themselves wondering if they made a mistake in not focusing more on the non-achievement oriented things in life that lead to simple pleasures and happiness.

Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.: The Impact of Parenting on Achievement Ph.D. Elisha Goldstein 2011

I think that the odds are that she would beat him, primarily because the Republicans are saddled with a record of non-achievement over the last eight years, and a president who I personally like but who is perceived by, I think it's now close to 80 percent of the public, as a failure.

Poll: Obama gaining support with key Clinton demographics 2008

Perhaps there can be such a thing as 'victory' in a battle, whereas in war there can be only the achievement or non-achievement of your objectives.

William E. Jackson Jr.: D-Day For The U.S. In Afghanistan: Realism Vs. Idealism 2009

If you look at what he didn't do, in short, it's hard to imagine a more prolific record of non-achievement.

Well, That Sure Sucked: Good Riddance To The Devil's Decade 2009

His life, other than being the lucky recipient of reverse discrimination that got him into Harvard and got him the editorship of the Harvard Review for which, oddly enough, he never wrote an article, Obama's life has been one of non-achievement.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

Do the candidates really believe that the American public wants to see these two attack each other on past records of “non-achievement?”

McCain on attack tonight? 2008

It makes them see their past as one wasteland of non-achievement and it makes them want to distance themselves from that wasteland.

Second National Insitute for Economic Policy (NIEP) Oliver Tambo Lecture Delivered By The President of The Republic Of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki 2000

It makes them see their past as one wasteland of non-achievement and it makes them want to distance themselves from that wasteland.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

Record Collector editor-in-chief Ian McCann attempts an analysis of this amazing non-achievement.

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