Previous attempts to use domes and plugs to contain the leak failed.
All attempts by London public health officials to contain the disease failed, and the plague spread rapidly.
The faulty tanks cause the gas to start leaking, and an attempt to contain the leak fails.
When containing the city failed, the disease spread throughout the globe and despite her best efforts, Magnus could not find a cure and was eventually killed in Buenos Aires.
She indicated that attempts to contain the virus had failed and the strategy would be to limit its spread.
Central bankers met repeatedly to discuss ways to contain the crisis, but failed to recapture the cooperative spirit that prevailed before 1914.
Samuel Beckett, thanks to the line containing the words "fail better", is enjoying a new and unlikely half-life among captains of industry, tennis players and motivators (amusingly, Richard Branson, acknowledging the quote's primary authorship, said "from the playwright, Samuel Beckett, but it could just as easily come from the mouth of yours truly").
After the Chernobyl nuclear accident, a concrete and steel encasement, the so-called sarcophagus, was hastily erected to contain the radioactive remnants inside the failed reactor.
He said the riots were a wake-up call and showed that attempts to contain the growing underclass had failed.
Quaker pacifism undoubtedly spurred Hoover's interest in the arms race and international disarmament, but, like his relief schemes on the home front that could hardly suppress or contain the Depression, these efforts failed to reduce world tensions or to prevent Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931.
