In the current world political climate, the United States cannot afford any more dramatic failures of insight and prediction.

"Sounds like a dramatic failure of their antiperspirant."

Yet the secret services have also had their dramatic failures.

Once again we see the dramatic failure of complex technological systems that rely at crucial points on humans.

It cost $15,000, and was a dramatic failure.

He is America's response to the dramatic failures of George Bush.

A dramatic failure at the plate in the ninth then added further indignity to the defeat.

But between those two big events were a series of less dramatic, more interesting failures.

It has to be said that this amounts to a dramatic failure for those who promoted such a policy.

"There have been some dramatic failures of levees in the last few days and that hasn't been lost on people here," he said.