1.   Failure had made him bitter and spiteful.

2.   Such practical failures make it difficult to sustain economic solidarity, political unity or cultural-ideological sympathy.

3.   And its failure would make lasting peace impossible, officials involved in the negotiations concede.

4.   Authorities were already seeking him for failure to make child-support payments.

5.   But the failure must make other foreign financial institutions that have been rushing to pledge allegiance to Japanese counterparts feel a bit queasy.

6.   Experts were not sure how engine failure had made that part of the tail leave the airplane early in the accident.

7.   Gingrich, who is divorced and remarried, has twice been brought to court for failure to make support payments to his ex-wife.

8.   His failure made him more desirous than ever for an Olympic medal.

9.   In fact, some said, and Khachaturian agreed, that the failures have made it essentially impossible to get federal funds to finance such risky research.