1.   In their view, corporate strategies fail because they consider problems in the external environment but not those internal to the organization.

2.   Many a case can be cited where business strategies of this kind have utterly failed.

3.   As you may have guessed, the strategy failed.

4.   Book publishing surely is not sorcery, and strategies fail.

5.   A sale or cutback, even a demerger, would amount to an admission that his strategy had after all failed.

6.   A similar strategy failed this year against Bank of Boston.

7.   But an industry representative said Thursday that he expected the strategy to fail.

8.   But analysts say that strategy failed to take into account the inherent differences between the two companies.

9.   But as word seeps out that the grand strategy is failing to meet its promise, the market loses faith.

10.   But critics say that strategy has failed in the past, primarily because many young men do not want to commit themselves to a celibate life.