True, if the Lib Dems' poll ratings fail to pick up, his prospects will be poor.
If sales fail to pick up this summer, it won't be for lack of available homes.
The Rangers will also clinch the Eastern Conference title if the Penguins fail to pick up the maximum points in their three remaining games.
It's rather touching that Parish has donned a bright red shirt lest we fail to pick him out of a band dressed in matching suits and trilbys.
Standard tests often fail to pick up latent viruses before surgery, but the VirScan procedure could reveal their presence and alert doctors and patients to the danger.
What they fail to pick up in the café or canteen, they learn by reading your letters or tapping your phone.
It's easy to mock, but if Bon Iver wore a sandwich board that said "I'M BON IVER," we'd still fail to pick him out of a crowd.
On the contrary, she gives expansively to her fellow cast members, feeding them emotional cues that they mostly fail to pick up on.
Guy Ryder, the ILO's director-general also highlighted rising inequality as wages fail to pick up, long-term unemployment problems intensify and progress stalls on cutting working poverty.
And not just them: if wages fail to pick up even as inflation climbs, workers and their families will face an even greater squeeze on their living standards.
The governor also signed laws that will increase fines for those who fail to pick up dog droppings or who block the box.
