Most Bangladeshis say violent crime is on the increase, and the Awami League has privately conceded that it has failed to combat the problem successfully.
The division of the Bahmanī sultanate into four ṭarafs (provinces) encouraged an autonomy that the reforms of Maḥmūd Gāwān failed to combat.
He was appointed prime minister by King Gyanendra last year and dismissed by him on Feb. 1, on the ground that he had failed to combat a Maoist insurgency.
An advisor to David Cameron says sex education in schools is out of tune with the modern age as it fails to combat children's increasing exposure to online pornography.
Cristina Palabay, the secretary general of Karapatan, a human-rights organization in the Philippines, said that the middle classes felt that a corrupt justice system and police force had failed to combat the drug trade.
Campaigning in north London last week, former Labour home secretary Alan Johnson said the party had failed to combat Tory claims that it had been responsible for the economic crash of 2008.
Citing "Forrest Gump" as a film that failed to combat late-20th-century feelings of discontinuity and "Pulp Fiction" as one wild enough to usher in a new era, Mr. Rushkoff moves on to what came next: the video game open-ended structure that keeps TV drama in the eternal present.
All three countries fell to the lowest ranking in the State Department's annual report on trafficking, joining 16 other nations that the United States argues have failed to combat or have been complicit in a practice estimated to claim as many as 27 million victims at any given time.
Jonathan Jones' fascinating piece about Holocaust memorials (War memorials have failed – we have forgotten the chaos of fascism, theguardian.com, 9 December) argues that they have failed to combat racial hatred in Europe and asks whether it could be that the works themselves are too modern or abstract to communicate with the public.
They made the more assertive start and threatened to take the lead three times in the first 10 minutes, during which time the United defence failed to combat two corners from Gylfi Sigurdsson, resulting in headers from Gomis, who had one cleared off the line by Herrera.
