Like Helen Fielding's Bridget I've kept a journal detailing resolutions to date sensible men which inevitably fail.
The problem was that Chamberlain was the last to walk up on to the stage and took so much time about it there was created for Ali an ordeal of restraint, under which he inevitably failed his promoters.
Bank executives would search for businesses that could get more horsepower, and that inevitably means taking on more risk, thus making more demands on regulation, which will inevitably fail at some point, the likelihood rising with time and success.
This is the so called 'drug treadmill', the rolling-out of new drugs which will inevitably fail in the face of parasite evolution.
When the gangsters inevitably failed to uphold their obligations, Porter threw them out.
Fluxus inevitably failed, and came to be seen as old hat.
However, this green initiative has inevitably failed in a marketplace dictated by size.
There were games of chance everywhere: the "drunken bicycle," "railway roulette" and the "bottle trick," in which the customer tries (and inevitably fails) to set a bottle upright using a loop on a string.
Inevitably, we take it up as our newest self improvement project which, like all the previous projects, inevitably, fails.
Likewise when the wifi inevitably fails at TechCrunch 50 – which it will, because it's a technology conference – I need to be able to write a slap-down at least as damning as the one I wrote about LeWeb without being taken out and shot (Hello Loic. Love you, man).
