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.
