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He could not secure adoption of the Fourteen Points, as the League meeting in Delhi at which he hoped to gain a vote instead dissolved into chaotic argument.

Although the struggling Islanders managed a point, they could not secure the second in a 4-3 loss to the Phoenix Coyotes on Saturday night.

In a further statement issued on Sunday, Cormann said his comment was intended to point out that Shorten could not secure Labor support for Labor's own previously budgeted savings measures.

Donald L. Pevsner, a transportation lawyer from Florida, secured a first-refusal option for purchasing the corridor to create restaurants and tourist attractions, but allowed it to expire on November 1 , 1984 because he could not secure financial backing; he claims that Conrail expressed a desire to sell the corridor, at that point a potential liability, to the "first warm body" that would buy it.

The naval theorist, Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond, responding to Robertson's arguments in an editorial, pointed out that local defence would fragment the British Empire's defence effort and could not secure the sea lanes.

However, Keynes could not secure American support for "creditor adjustment".

As Abraham Lincoln stated, "We could not secure the good we did secure if we grasped for more".

Not this year, though, as Vallence could not secure the required time off work.

Where Bancroft could not secure original documents, he had relevant portions of them transcribed.

He could not secure the ball as he tried to catch it, and the Packers recovered.

Despite Thompson's first-half brace, Tranmere could not secure their first league win of the season and needed a stoppage-time equaliser from summer signing Ryan Lowe to collect their first point.

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