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• Previous, often intensive control programmes have foundered, and we cannot point to a clear-cut example of successful large-scale scrapie control.

• When it finally decided to introduce a growthinhibiting incomes policy to restrain inflation, it foundered in the 1978-9 'winter of discontent'.

• The hopes that an independent, transnational community might emerge among this group of experts foundered on the clash of the national perspectives they represented.

• As he declined to address himself to the intractable problems which it raised, it became the rock upon which he foundered.

• Although initial efforts to augment the efficiency and accountability of public servants foundered, modest successes have been achieved.

• However, this programme also foundered in the face of limited budget allocations and failed to receive funding at this stage.

• Political change in the 1830s had foundered because active groups had based utopian ambitions on unrealistic foundations.

• When the project foundered a year later, he made the best of a bad thing by writing a history of the failed expedition.

• It foundered on self-interest and cruel lack of interest, and seems to have been characterized by nothing more admirable than intellectual arrogance in the face of real suffering.

• His overture through the normal channels foundered.

• Old forms of regulation (notably through public ownership) foundered on problems of both economic efficiency and public accountability.

• This article will make clear the heterogeneity and complexity of this worldview, one of the inherent reasons for the crisis of confidence in which it foundered.

• In the past such innovative schemes as night-sitter services and incontinence laundry services have foundered because of a perceived lack of demand, when lack of publicitiy was the culprit.

• Successive population projections in this country, like many other sociological predictions, have often foundered in the past because of a failure to anticipate the gap between intentions and events.

• Baldwin was well aware that tariff reform had foundered before 1914 on the charge of being a tax on working-class food and that this charge would be repeated.