Second, the recent history of Islamic societies has been one of failure.
I particularly liked this passage: The international experience of "internal devaluations" is mostly one of failure.
Take him at his word, and use his words, and the verdict is one of failure.
He is a kind of Arab Candide, and his story is ultimately one of failure and passivity.
For many substances, the problem is one of failure of excretion, with consequent increased concentration in body fluids.
(Did anyone even write searing divorce memoirs in the '70s?) "The notion of divorce has become one of failure again," said Ms. Morrison, 42, a resident of Park Slope.
Journalists and humanitarians understandably focus on unmet needs, and that can leave the impression that the story of global health is a depressing one of failure.
Substantively, however, its record has been one of failure, arrogance, and — strikingly for a team that prided itself on crisp professionalism — incompetence.
If there is not at least one furious article rhetorically asking "call that art?!" the general feeling among its promoters is one of failure.
His military record was also, in the end, one of failure: the Byzantine advance continued after his death, culminating in the fall of Antioch in 969.
