Now that it looks like failing, they won't be able to.
On present form, though, the coalition looks like failing in its long-term goals while still alienating the many voters who are sensitive to higher energy prices.
It covers them, maximally, but often its stories are about their fading looks, their failing marriages, their hypocrisy, their illegitimate children.
Accusations are made of unfair arrests and rigged trials, as in the case of a banker killed by interior-ministry employees: a test of the government's commitment to the rule of law, says Salome Zourabichvili, a former foreign minister now in opposition and one that it looks like failing.
Right now, they look like failing it.
But Mike Matheny struck out looking after failing to bunt.
And none is very convincing.If the Tories are to be judged on whether they have a theory of everything, they look like failing the test.
Although in a secretive state like Syria such internal bloodletting is far from impossible, given how weak it has made them look by failing to anticipate the attack, this seems unlikely.
She never looked like failing to achieve that much, coming third in a heat she led until the final lap, but eventually finished well behind the impressive Romanian Maricica Puica.
As the board members studied the shuttle disaster, he said, they realized that they needed to look beyond failing hardware and simple human error into NASA's culture, to see if there were elements that all but compelled bad decisions.
