Do they continue to stay together, even as unsuccessful parents?
Labour now have to hope that Salmond's constitutional manoeuvring proves as unsuccessful as their own.
In the end, Johnson's four-year tenure can only be viewed as unsuccessful.
Manziel's attempts to pass the ball were just as unsuccessful, the ball floating high and loose off his fingers.
"Schools such as Brymore are being forced to consider their options – or risk being labelled as unsuccessful," he says.
They have been described as "unsuccessful, talented people, highly intelligent but unable to fit in with the straight world".
Ms Mansfield's encounter was more convoluted, but just as unsuccessful, and, of this and its unsavoury details, more anon.
But the new leaders of the government were as unsuccessful as the old in resolving the crisis.
Moreover, attempts to fuse public and private German banks have been as unsuccessful as they have been rare.
Billing himself on his website as an "entrepreneur, TV presenter, media personality and an accomplished speaker", Ahmed obviously doesn't view himself as unsuccessful, despite Sugar's dismissive pronouncement.
But the owner, the Campagna Construction Corporation, persisted; preservationists were as unsuccessful as they had been with their campaign to save Pennsylvania Station the year before.
