1.   It represents a failure of ambition and imagination.

2.   At best, the result represents a failure of historical imagination.

3.   Both provisions represent a failure on the part of the long-distance industry, which fought hard and lost for a stricter entry test to govern the Bells.

4.   Almost all represent the failure of water.

5.   In New York, Ewing would come to represent failure and hope simultaneously, and subsequently would develop the thin skin and ego that goes with those respective roles.

6.   It affects neighboring states, to be sure, but the woe facing the West represents a failure of government, not a failure of markets.

7.   No one thinks that anything less than a Super Bowl championship represents failure, an attitude Cowboys fans have adopted.

8.   Some represent the failure of trees.

9.   The bottom line is that far fewer people will come to see a historical site that represents failure than one that was a triumph.

10.   The loss of an American stealth fighter in Yugoslavia on Saturday did not represent a failure of its radar-evading technology, experts said Wednesday.