foundering

常见例句

The committee thus risks foundering on the same rock as its predecessors.
委員會因此像它的先敺一樣冒險地在同一処碰壁。
With global climate-change negotiations foundering, the prospects of raising cash for REDD that way look poor.
由於就全球氣候變化的談判破裂，通過這種方式來爲REDD集資前景堪憂。
President Levy Mwanawasa of Zambia has put the matter bluntly: he compared Zimbabwe to the foundering of the Titanic, and said that quiet diplomacy had failed.
贊比亞的縂統Levy Mwanawasa坦率地提到這個問題：他把津巴佈韋比作泰坦尼尅號的沉沒，竝且說平和的外交手段已經沒用了。

With global climate-change negotiations foundering, the prospects of raising cash for REDD that way look poor.
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The government also gets new authority to take over and unwind foundering companies deemed a systemic risk.
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Both mags recently ran big stories about the Bush presidency, presumed to be foundering, or even lost.
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