1.   And it is possible to learn from the mistakes of earlier failed scions.

2.   After his two earlier failed missions, the consensus has been that the Americans needed some larger idea if a cease-fire was to hold.

3.   After his two earlier failed missions, the consensus has been that the Americans need some larger idea if a cease-fire is to hold.

4.   After two earlier failed missions by the American envoy, the consensus was that the Americans needed some larger idea if a cease-fire was to hold.

5.   Earlier failed versions of the Kyl bill would have made criminals of Internet casino executives and their customers.

6.   Those plans include a shift back to a focus on videos, as opposed to an earlier failed plan to sell everything from candy to T-shirts at the stores.

7.   This international police work stands in sharp contrast to earlier failed attempts to fight crime globally.

8.   Investors also sent shares of Smithfield Foods Inc. lower on concern that the hog producer might be tempted to revive its earlier failed effort to acquire IBP.

9.   The wizard -- in hiding since an earlier failed attempt to kill Harry -- makes his presence felt in the first pages of volume four.

10.   The wizard - in hiding since an earlier failed attempt to kill Harry - makes his presence felt in the first pages of volume four.