But many have foundered on bureaucratic resistance and amiguismo (cronyism).
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The company foundered at the bottom of the European benchmark.
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The bill passed the House and foundered in the Senate.
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Then real estate foundered, and they had to start over.
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But this measured strategy foundered before it even got started.
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Everyone would be worse off if the Article 50 talks foundered.
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The separatist project foundered last autumn when confronted with harsh reality.
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An initial attempt to get them going foundered in early February.
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But his talks with Mr Iglesias foundered, prompting a new election.
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The franchise, which won three titles in Detroit, foundered in Tulsa.
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But, as the uprising foundered, there was no action from Washington.
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A GNA spokesman said late on Thursday that the move had foundered.
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But carbon capture isn't easy to scale up, and early attempts foundered.
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Business groups sued to block the proposition's implementation, though those suits foundered.
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Past agreements have foundered and come apart over small gaps in definitions.
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The effort ultimately foundered as Maduro hardened his stance against opposition critics.
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But despite its intense motivational energy, Black Power as a movement foundered.
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But since appearing in the All-Star Game, he has foundered, batting .
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But then the investigation foundered, uncovering far less fraud than originally estimated.
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Lawmakers couldn't reconcile the different versions of the bill, and it foundered.
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He hopes to resuscitate negotiations that foundered six weeks ago in Vietnam.
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But any hope of sealing a global deal has foundered on Iran's position.
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The sticking point in the talks before they foundered had been the detainees.
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Some even speculated that the Americans might be happy if multilateral talks foundered.
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Yet as nation-building foundered in corruption and neglect, the Taliban crept back.
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The low figure alienated creditors, and negotiations toward a restructuring deal have foundered.
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On both occasions the law they put forward foundered on a presidential veto.
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An early attempt to commercialise the technology, by a company called Cyberkinetics, foundered.
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But the talks foundered, with each side describing the other in derogatory terms.
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Mr. Greiner said past redevelopment plans had foundered amid financial troubles and lawsuits.
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Just inside the gate a horse trailer foundered in a surf of mud.
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The charms of the terminal outlasted the airline itself, which foundered after deregulation.
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But in recent years, it waned in importance as the peace process foundered.
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Federal efforts to expand the availability of retirement accounts foundered during the decade.
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They came because they couldn't sleep at night and their marriages had foundered.
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Previous attempts to remove it have foundered amid warnings it would split society.
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"I went into a deep depression," she said, and her recording career foundered.
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It is often said that leaders 'foundered' or blundered into the First World War.
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Earlier attempts to establish an Asian derivative crude contract by Singapore and Tokyo foundered.
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Government control foundered amid widespread starvation, and security loosened along the border with China.
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Petersen became the third Trump judicial pick whose nomination foundered in the past week.
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Even as the team foundered, though, fans continued pouring into the old Rexall Place.
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This patchwork approach reflects a larger truth: Efforts to legislate meaningful change have foundered.
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The low figure alienated creditors and negotiations toward an out-of-court restructuring foundered.
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Early attempts at talks between the government and a coalition of opposition leaders foundered.
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The Oslo-listed stocks' shares had foundered by 10.3 percent at the market close.
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The Hawkeyes had foundered for nearly two decades when he took over in 1979.
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Previous governments have foundered on the third rail of French politics, the pensions system.
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The two ideas were to some extent in opposition to each other; they both foundered.
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Oliver's Union Jacks pizza restaurants also foundered, and the last one reportedly closed in 2017.
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Even as ethnic nationalism has prospered, the world's greatest experiment in "post-nationalism" has foundered.
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After talks on an EU digital tax foundered, Macron's government imposed its own unilateral tax.
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Similarly, successive governments' promises to build more houses foundered on a lack of suitable workers.
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That could revive projects that foundered early in Modi's rule, including land and labor reforms.
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South Africa's economy, despite being sub-Saharan Africa's most developed, has foundered in recent years.
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When traditional tactics foundered, the activists staged a series of outré demonstrations to capture attention.
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The legislation ultimately foundered; a new draft, yet to be introduced, also excludes large trucks.
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The deal foundered because of the publicity surrounding it, which the Chinese had hoped to avoid.
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But with regional parties complaining that Congress overestimates its clout, talks have foundered in several states.
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Fourierist communes foundered across the New World and Old; his ideas about gender equality lived on.
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The Six Party Talks nuclear deal reached in 2007 foundered on Pyongyang's refusal to allow verification.
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Under Trump's ownership the hotel foundered, declared bankruptcy the same year, and was sold in 1995.
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Ambitious Hamas plans to refocus Gaza's economy east, away from Israel, foundered before they even started.
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When Levy's autobiographical essay begins, she is a middle-aged woman whose life's certainties have foundered.
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But even the weaker bill foundered, due to opposition from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
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The sanctions came after efforts to get aid into the country foundered amid scattered deadly violence.
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Previous efforts at decentralisation also foundered because the economics proved wanting, including those of the original internet.
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And, so far, attempts to make such fuel synthetically, rather than from petroleum, have foundered on cost.
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But the plan foundered on differences with the French state over the alliance's future shape and direction.
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Doctors' hopes for mescaline have foundered too—a fact worth remembering as hallucinogens draw renewed medical interest.
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Sources said Roche was closely monitoring developments and might yet step in, if talks with Sanofi foundered.
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But some of the president's highest-profile campaign promises have foundered in his first months in office.
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Why he should have foundered in " The Great Gatsby " (1974) may be the greatest mystery of all.
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And Trump and McConnell reportedly stopped speaking for several weeks after the health care repeal effort foundered.
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" But the agreement quickly foundered amid opposition from Israel, which denounced it as a "victory for terrorism.
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BlackBerry has foundered, but Canada has a lot of well-known artificial intelligence researchers, especially in Toronto.
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But previous projects that foundered, particularly in the 1990s, point up the potential risk of these investments.
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Protracted direct negotiations with London foundered when neither side seemed to be bargaining with clearly defined goals.
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In 1974, a drifting ship of state foundered on the gifted, garrulous iceberg that was Nixon himself.
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The Danish pharmaceutical company foundered at the bottom of the Stoxx 214.75, closing over 14 percent lower.
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That idea foundered on Reagan's insistence on developing of his ill-conceived Star Wars missile defense system.
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On Monday, he told Reuters Pertamina had been among them, but that discussions had foundered on price.
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Carbon taxes may have foundered for now, but regional cap-and-trade systems are still going strong.
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Indeed, in September Asian swaps markets foundered and trades fell through as the U.S. rules came online.
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Still, efforts to establish a reliable credit system foundered because China lacked a third-party credit scoring entity.
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South Sudan declared independence in 2011, with the support of powerful allies and the UN. But it foundered.
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A decade ago a bill outlawing discrimination on various grounds foundered because sexual orientation was one of them.
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When that effort foundered, anger over it helped energize the Democrats and restore them to Congress in 2006.
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But one reason these programs have foundered is because they've lacked the subscriber base to balance the budget.
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The truce foundered on Monday with an attack on an aid convoy, which Washington blamed on Russian warplanes.
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The Senate Republicans' healthcare bill foundered earlier this week after multiple GOP senators came out against the proposal.
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Previous attempts to broker a peace deal have foundered because powers involved in the conflict have differing approaches.
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Brexit has foundered, in no small measure, on the question of how to cope with the Irish border.
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But Congress' efforts to assemble an aid package foundered with partisan disputes preventing any action during trading hours.
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But two nights later, after the same ceremony, the Vegas Golden Knights foundered in a 3-2 loss.
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On the other hand, French food producer Danone foundered near the bottom of the index, slipping 2 percent.
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Before those deals foundered, American investors and regulators raised doubts about Anbang's opaque ownership and its financial strength.
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But as the ruble and the economy foundered many Russians felt even more eager to remove their money.
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This approach foundered after Democrats lost Congress, as a united Republican opposition simply obstructed whatever Obama wanted to do.
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She was amazing in Parks & Rec, has carried movies that would have otherwise foundered, and made Grumpy Cat watchable.
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Even as their vessel foundered, the last thing any of the migrants wanted was to be rescued at sea.
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After all, predictions that he would become more of a traditional presidential candidate have always foundered in the past.
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All attempts to bring peace to Syria have foundered on the question of what will happen to Mr Assad.
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An attempt in 2006 to frame a global approach to counterfeit medicines foundered on resistance from India and Brazil.
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Then there are those that have foundered for reasons that aren't exactly clear, leaving their sites shrouded in mystery.
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Although there are violations on both sides, the deal has foundered largely because of Russia and its separatist allies.
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Those talks foundered, but that the Greens even contemplated the idea was seen as the end of an era.
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His film career foundered after he starred as Napoleon in "Eagle in a Cage" (1972), a box-office failure.
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This cascade of phony science was not the only reason legislation aimed at reducing carbon pollution foundered in Congress.
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Yet in New York, a bill to ban fund-raisers during the session has foundered for nearly two decades.
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Though past talks have foundered on clashing executive egos, there is some overlap between the two lenders' respective management teams.
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The tug probably foundered in heavy seas and 40-knot winds, according to the Icelandic Coastguard (Royal Navy/ Icelandic Coastguard)
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That deal foundered amid controversy over the extended family of the U.S. president selling to a politically connected Chinese tycoon.
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Andrew M. Cuomo made a strong push for the tax credit proposal in 2015, but it foundered in the Assembly.
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"We are not restarting T.T.I.P.," she said, referring to the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, the pact that foundered.
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One by one, the responses foundered and died: Nearly all the patients became resistant and returned to their catatonic states.
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That agreement fostered several years of peace but gradually foundered, with cross-border violence re-emerging more fully in 2013.
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Other French governments have foundered as train strikes have stretched on, and this has the potential to last until June.
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But negotiations over the proposal foundered, and it doesn't appear in the final principles that were adopted at the conference.
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Mr. Navarro then started a seafood importing business and an advertising agency, but both foundered, and his financial situation worsened.
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"Pixels," a 2015 science-fiction action comedy starring Adam Sandler, also foundered with moviegoers and was harshly reviewed by critics.
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Attempts to work out plea agreements with the others have so far foundered on differences between German and American laws.
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He was later prosecuted on a variety of charges, including corruption and murder, but almost all the cases eventually foundered.
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But the plan foundered on differences with the French state over the alliance's future shape and direction, sources have said.
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Mr. Navarro then started a seafood importing business and an advertising agency, but both foundered, and his financial situation worsened.
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But the case foundered on a key element in proving fraud: The bank's conduct was not "material" to Hewlett-Packard.
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He was wedged into a crowd, waiting to hear his candidate, Rubio, who had foundered during a debate the previous night.
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The former industrial powerhouse has foundered in several key markets in recent years and is aggressively cutting costs and selling businesses.
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A previous attempt to outlaw the NPD foundered in 2003 because government-paid informants were among the witnesses, tainting the evidence.
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It's the idea that won't die — even though several of the companies that originally supported it have foundered over the years.
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Since the Brazilian economy started sinking in 2014, upstream merchandise trade has foundered, even as farm exports downriver have held up.
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His plan to shrink the horse-drawn carriage industry to just Central Park foundered when the Teamsters union pulled its support.
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Trump's lock on 20-25% of the Republican core vote during the primaries was the rock on which his opponents foundered.
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Attempts to brew Murree in neighbouring India (Pakistan's law forbids exporting it outright) have foundered, the result of sour diplomatic relations.
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An energy bill foundered on the floor just before the recess over a fight concerning federal money to assist Flint, Mich.
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His ambition to improve alliances—an opening statement of his view of America's global interest—foundered on Mr Trump's contrary view.
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The acquisition strategy that brought the company success in the late-90s foundered in the wake of the dot com crash.
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The USS Fitzgerald could have foundered, or even sunk, but for the crew's desperate efforts to save the ship, he said.
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A ban on burqas has been debated in the Netherlands for a decade but always foundered on practical or constitutional objections.
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After King's death, the 1968 Poor People's Campaign foundered, dogged by federal surveillance and the infiltration efforts of J. Edgar Hoover.
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The agreement included the aim of achieving a final status peace agreement within five years, but implementation and subsequent negotiations foundered.
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Since the 1990s, efforts to establish a common curriculum have foundered on public opposition — even without a controversial emphasis on religion.
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He resigned in 2007 after just a year in office, as his administration foundered on a series of blunders and scandals.
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Health care plans have foundered again and again on the shoals of figuring out where to come up with the money.
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While Trump's health care agenda has foundered — as has much of the rest of his platform — his immigration agenda has not.
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An attempt to begin fleshing it out, at a meeting of IMO member states which concluded in London on October 2140th, foundered.
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An attempt by Fiat Chrysler to merge with Renault earlier this year foundered in part because of objections from the French government.
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Mr Mitsotakis, whose father's term as prime minister foundered after he talked reason on Macedonia, seems keen to avoid a similar fate.
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Efforts by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to reconcile Iraq's Sunni and Shi'ites have mostly foundered, despite increased U.S. engagement in Iraq.
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Even so, last year's effort to repeal the whole thing foundered in the Senate and was unpopular with the public to boot.
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Mr Trump is embarking on a new push to overhaul healthcare after plans pushed by House speaker Paul Ryan foundered last month.
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But sources said the plan foundered on differences with the French state, Renault's biggest shareholder, over the alliance's future shape and direction.
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But Pence's campaign foundered after the press revealed that he had used donations toward personal expenses, such as his mortgage and groceries.
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How, given the way Obama's ideals foundered on a kind of Washington default mode, did Sanders plan to staff an entire administration?
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Every effort at fundamental reform for at least a quarter of a century has foundered on giant and sometimes violent union demonstrations.
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Last month Mr Macri's bid for a second term foundered when he fared badly in "primary" elections (in reality, a dress rehearsal).
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The nursing home had been part of a chain that switched hands and foundered financially, ultimately ending up in court-appointed receivership.
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And last Thursday, the first presentation of "The Seasons" foundered when two of the three vocal soloists fell ill just hours beforehand.
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But the chaos of the later Yeltsin years, in which the ruble collapsed and Yeltsin's government foundered, made such a thing impossible.
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Where the two productions differed most — and where one foundered while the other excelled — was in presenting the story of Gandhi's life.
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Previous efforts to create a tape foundered after disagreements on how much exchanges could charge for data, making a tape commercially unviable.
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Congestion pricing won support last year from labor groups, business interests and activists, but foundered under objections from legislators from outside Manhattan.
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They've been a steady income source for Trump even when other enterprises such as casinos, an airline, and a pro football team foundered.
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All diplomatic efforts to resolve it have foundered over the fate of Assad, who refuses to accept opposition demands that he leave power.
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Italy's president, Sergio Mattarella, has urged parliament to revise and harmonise its two laws, but an attempt to do so foundered in June.
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Last year, talks with Thai businessman Bee Taechaubol to sell a majority stake foundered when Berlusconi changed his mind at the last minute.
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Term Limits: The Hill – Some House conservatives are keen to push for term limits in Congress, a familiar idea that foundered decades ago.
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The president's frequent campaign trail promises to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare, foundered during his first year in office.
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The plan foundered and left the landscape scarred; in the area of Jérémie alone, as many as a million fruit trees were destroyed.
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Hyde's oblique angle of attack also reinvigorated the anti-abortion movement, which had until that point foundered amid failed attempts to overturn Roe.
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British telecommunications firm Inmarsat foundered at the other end of the spectrum, closing 8 percent lower following an improved takeover offer from EchoStar.
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Assembling a Cabinet acceptable to both Mattarella and the populist partners foundered on League leader Matteo Salvini&aposs insistence on a euroskeptic economy minister.
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Unlike Afghanistan, say, where international efforts at nation-building have foundered in part because the country is racked by insurgency, Cambodia is at peace.
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Indeed, John Kress of the Smithsonian, another of the EBP's founders, says many previous sequencing ventures have foundered on the rock of such permission.
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Previous attempts to end Syria's six years of war have foundered because of bitter disagreements, especially on whether Assad himself should stay in power.
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But he has backed off others, while his attempt to repeal and replace ObamaCare foundered in the face of opposition from his own party.
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The talks foundered after the Houthis and Saleh's General People's Congress (GPC) announced the formation of the 10-member governing council on Aug 6.
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Caofeidian, also in Hebei, was promoted by former President Hu Jintao as a new industrial zone in 2008, but development foundered as debt accumulated.
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That foundered because he believed he would have to share influence with officials from the statist camp, according to people familiar with the negotiations.
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The Boston-based company foundered in several industrial markets and its move into financial services steered it into the global financial storm in 2008.
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A late-session suggestion of eight different bills, including one focused only on the campaign for governor, foundered on the shoals of legislative indifference.
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Earlier talks between the two companies foundered in late May, with media reports suggesting concerns over PostNL's pension liabilities had been a sticking point.
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In the past, Mr. Bremmer said, the concerns of Mr. Trump's supporters might have been ignored, and his candidacy would almost certainly have foundered.
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Their efforts foundered in March, when a House health bill had to be pulled from the floor after it failed to attract enough support.
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The system constrained the lifestyles of executives, as Fortune magazine explained in 1955: "The large yacht has foundered in the sea of progressive taxation".
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Negotiations over the issue had foundered by the scheduled end of the session, and lawmakers left Albany with the matter of mayoral control unresolved.
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Guinea's aspirations to develop Simandou, the world's largest known untapped iron ore deposit, have foundered because of the cost of infrastructure and protracted legal disputes.
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Last month, a Bain-backed management buyout foundered after it failed to get enough support from shareholders at a revised 700 yen ($6.37) a share.
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That inquiry foundered, but the transactions surfaced again last year when they were turned over to special counsel Robert Mueller's team as it investigated Manafort.
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On Monday, the ceasefire foundered further with an attack on an aid convoy that killed around 20 people and that Washington blamed on Russian planes.
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The talks foundered on where the combined firm would have its key operations, and who would occupy the main management roles, sources had told Reuters.
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Even though the GOP's first attempt at the repeal of Obamacare under Trump foundered, it's far from the last thing Trump will need to negotiate.
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The Bitkovs say there is a political motive behind the actions of the state-owned banks that forced them into bankruptcy when their industry foundered.
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That has put an unfair burden on Italy and Greece; a plan to ease that burden by distributing some refugees to other nations has foundered.
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But those prospects foundered when two right-leaning lawmakers from Blue and White said they would vote against any government that depended on Arab support.
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It is not clear why those talks foundered, but Sadrists say their leader was angered by Mr. Abadi's alliance with the pro-Iranian militia leaders.
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While his personal appearances (including charging fans $19923 for an autograph) were one source of income, later attempts to create wholly owned superhero properties foundered.
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And for 12 weeks, the government has foundered in its response, alternating vague promises of reform with brutal treatment of protesters by its security forces.
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