The message that France would consider military action against Iraq, but only after the inspectors themselves proclaimed failure, was overtaken by Mr. Chirac's threat to veto an Amerian war resolution in the Security Council.
Not to compare one musty old-boy network to the civil rights movement, but back in the early 60's people proclaimed failure every time somebody got doused with ketchup and tossed into the street during a lunch-counter demonstration.
Susan B. Anthony proclaimed "Failure is Impossible" in her last speech on voting rights.
And when the next day the tainted food was gone, not even orange dust particles remained, I proclaimed, 'Failure!'.
As Murray Kempton wrote after the Times Mirror Company's heedless execution of New York Newsday in July, "there cannot be much health left in a social order where corporations can clamorously proclaim a failure on Friday with entire assurance that therefore their stock will go up on Monday".
Just this week I picked up a 24-page magazine-style piece of marketing that makes liberal use of red ink and large type to proclaim: "BANK FAILURE EPIDEMIC AHEAD!" and then goes on to explain how we're about to face "the deadliest banking crisis since 1932".
Mr. Deskovic's life after exoneration has been punctuated by milestones like getting a driver's license (and a $3,000 Pontiac Grand Am with a bumper sticker proclaiming, "Failure is not an option"), and new adventures, like playing table tennis at a Greenwich Village bar with people he had met online.
Indeed, these leaders responded to the latest job numbers by proclaiming the failure of the Obama economic plan.
Even the usually moderate Christian Democrats have, since the last election, proclaimed the "failure of a multicultural experiment" and the "right of the Dutch people to feel at home in their own country".More importantly, it has also permeated Dutch policymaking.
The rootless, self-deprived Larkin persona proclaims his failure to find "the place where I could say / This is my proper ground, / Here I shall stay" and to meet "that special one / Who has an instant claim / On everything I own / Down to my name".
