Alburquerque failed to strike out Cano.
Israel failed to strike a deal over Ron Arad, an airman captured in Lebanon in 1986.
The Cambodians balked and in the end delegates failed to strike any deal on the COC.
Scotland, though, were handed a reprieve as Bergamasco again failed to strike his kick cleanly.
Not only has the government failed to strike a deal with the EU.
2.16pm GMT The Tories have failed to strike a deal with the DUP, according to Twitter.
In the other two, the interceptor failed to strike its target.
No surprise, perhaps, that Welles's movie, when shown for Churchill, failed to strike a chord.
The company had already extended the negotiations twice, but failed to strike a deal before the revised deadline.
But Congressional Republicans, while winning cuts in "discretionary" spending, failed to strike a "grand bargain" curbing entitlements.
He failed to strike a really sympathetic tone, except in the first duet, while the character of Don José is not well-defined.
