Fleeting efforts to negotiate have failed.
Attempts to negotiate peace failed when the former president, Ernesto Zedillo, refused to endorse agreements reached between the Zapatistas and government mediators.
In fairness, the Uruguayans had tried to negotiate, but failed; their brave French commander was slashed across the chest with a machete.Carla del Ponte, the UN's war-crimes prosecutor, says that the killing in Ituri "could be genocide".
But that negotiating period failed to produce a mutually agreeable bid.
Mr. Daley's efforts to get Congress to approve fast-track trade negotiating powers failed recently.
The Yankees had also pursued Matsuzaka, but their bid to win negotiating rights failed, forcing them to explore other options.
He had been asked to resign by the court-appointed creditors committee, but he had floated the idea himself as far back as November when the company was negotiating its failed merger with its energy rival, Dynegy.
A similarly hopeful tone appeared on the front pages of major reformist newspapers, whose editors largely echoed President Hassan Rouhani's televised 24 November statement that although the negotiating sides failed to reach a final agreement, conditions are "completely different from three months and six months ago.
Attempts by Mountbatten to find a negotiated solution failed and, in August, the Nizam, claiming that he feared an imminent invasion, attempted to approach the UN Security Council and the International Court of Justice.
On 27 March, an attempt to reach a negotiated settlement failed and the commanding officer of the 19th Partisan Brigade announced that armed combat might start at a moment's notice.
