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After three days, the frontal attack had failed to make an adequate breach, so Montgomery sent the 1st Armoured Division to bolster the New Zealanders' threat to the enemy's rear.

US ambassador James Cunningham said the attack had failed to achieve its goals and demonstrated "the futility of the Taliban's efforts to use violence and terror to achieve their aims".

The attack had failed to achieve their aim of completely destroying the Muslims.

Clearly their attack has failed to fire, and clearly Fernando Torres is not fit.

Paying GPs to spot and treat patients with high blood pressure before they might have a stroke or heart attack has failed to improve the care they receive, research claims.

Even efforts by Aon Corporation and Marsh & McLennan, the two large insurance brokers whose offices were devastated by the attack, have failed to find insurance companies willing to provide coverage to the contractors and the city.

The match also highlighted Northants' need for a spearhead for their bowling attack, having failed to win any of the six Championship matches they played without prolific Australian seamer Trent Copeland.

The area struck today is the same one where attacks had failed to wipe out the Taliban presence earlier this week.

A military spokesman told Sky News that the rocket had been fired from a point some distance from the base, and that previous attacks had failed to penetrate its perimeter.

In its report to the committee, the F.B.I. said that it was not uncommon for Saudis in the United States to receive financial support from their government and that an inquiry into the two men after the attacks had failed to produce evidence that they had any link to the Sept. 11 plot.

Aerial attacks had failed to hit the Le Hamel strongpoint, which had its embrasure facing east to provide enfilade fire along the beach and had a thick concrete wall on the seaward side.