A momentary success bred immediate subsequent failure.
They are fearful of taking on ill-defined responsibility and being blamed for any subsequent failure.
It must contain 50 litres, and is labelled formic acid – which can cause oedema and subsequent failure of the lungs.
Argentina's default, and its subsequent failure to reach agreement with its creditors, reinforced that view.
Osborne's vision for the play might have changed after its censorship and subsequent failure.
Did this represent a subsequent failure of nerve on Grant's part or a tragedy of history that no one could have avoided?
The subsequent failure of the civil service to sack him allowed him to carry on spreading his poison through Whitehall for a further five years.
But Scotland's subsequent failure to defend 319 was, like the efforts of Eoin Morgan's men against Sri Lanka, not good enough.
Arguably, it was the subsequent failure to address the damage to the financial system in a timely manner that caused Japan's current economic problems".
There is a long tradition of writing about Africa that sees early "success" give way to subsequent "failure" - all our good intentions gone to waste.
The scandal, instead, is what he was able to do lawfully thanks to the structure of the tax code, and his subsequent failure to be transparent about it.
