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The National Security Council in this early period also struggled, without someone with a clinical epidemiology or global health security background empowered to run the response or challenge health officials — a huge failing, this official added.

He beat his illness twice, wrote about his battles with the disease, and continued broadcasting even as his health was failing.

Annie Lee Cooper, well played by Winfrey, is shown trying but failing to register to vote.

But failing that, he advised pro-immigration reform Republican candidates such as former Gov. Jeb Bush to just skip the state.

They recorded 10,549 graves on or near the railway in 144 cemeteries, failing to locate only 52 graves.

So by failing, I go audition for Any Given Sunday [and] things turn out right.

He had been several times on the very point of making a personal attempt to repair his failing fortunes beyond the Channel.

Failing to find there what he was looking for, he went up the narrow white-railed stairway to the second floor.

He had been in failing health for about a year but was confined to his home for only the last week.

Meanwhile his army was suffering, provisions were failing, and the season was rainy.

Even in that supreme moment, when her senses were failing and her eyes were growing dim, she saw and understood.