How To Use Fail-safe In A Sentence
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If you're getting mixed signals, give the subject this fail-safe test on a piece of paper.
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Then the ice caps will be able to freeze again; it's a fail-safe mechanism.
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Columbia was the first spacecraft to disintegrate on re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere - and the results, in falling debris, were a shocking lesson to the engineers responsible for fail-safe planning.
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There were fail-safe steps in place, and they didn't work.
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The Tangara trains are equipped with a number of fail-safe devices, including one known as a deadman's brake.
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I have my master plan set, as well as fail-safes in position as well.
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Why doesn't such equipment have a fail-safe process that requires a multistep action before the device is stopped?
Times, Sunday Times
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The other thing we had noticed when Sally had come in to have the warning light checked out was that the transmission was always stuck in third gear, or fail-safe mode.
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This is an important fail-safe feature of sand bioreactors that acts to protect the receiving environment from poorly treated wastewater.
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The major motivation of new collectors seems to be the perception that art is a fail-safe investment, like a government guaranteed tax-free fixed deposit with spectacular interest rates.
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Our fail-safe plan of copying the best things that anyone else was doing was actually failing, after most of the people we knew had tootled off to England.
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The so-called Brake Pedal Unit contains the hydraulic fluid reservoir, pedal damping and hydrostatic fail-safe unit.
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Elements of information on the certificate are placed in a particular way so as to act as a fail-safe against any crude counterfeit efforts.
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If the potential human and economic costs are high enough, engineers who work with floodwater alleviation systems always design them with some sort of fail-safe mechanism.
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Systems in a reactor work in fail-safe mode, which means that the failure of a system will lead to a safer mode of operation.
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a fail-safe device in a nuclear weapon to deactivate it automatically in the event of accident
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There's gonna be a lot of fail-safes put in place between state, local and federal law enforcement agencies.
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The fail-safes on the program alert us when something gets neglected.
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In the main this system works well, but it is not entirely fail-safe.
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Right now, he sees you as some kind of fail-safe that he can rely on.
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That is wise, but it seems to me the most fail-safe way to protect a corporate network from viruses is to prevent their entrance into the system in the first place.
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As a result of the impact of failure, aerospace systems have greater redundancy and fail-safe requirements.
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Check the software to verify if it has fail-safe and recovery procedures.
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Update your weekend wardrobe: white midiskirt + box-fresh trainers + logo tee = fail-safe formula for summer.
Times, Sunday Times
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The boom in airliner orders and new generation advanced aircraft, flight and control avionics, navigation, power distribution, engines and air traffic control systems as well as profusion of high speed rail facing similar fail-safe, redundancy, communications and safety requirements, not to mention rising global demand for efficient power generating equipment, are helping push electronics content to new highs.
Smartphones, Tablets Put A Bid Under Intel, T.I., Linear Tech, Analog Devices
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A small auxiliary throttle is used as a fail-safe should the system fail, to control fuel tank ventilation, and to improve cold starts.
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The campaign also has two back-up credit card transaction systems in place (one built in-house and one by a consultant) for high traffic periods and as a fail-safe procedure.
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But, as I imagine it was meant to do, it was also reassuring to see what fail-safes and other options exist in even the direst circumstances.
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In addition, all federally funded prevention materials would be required to include information warning people that condoms are not 100 percent fail-safe.
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While sensible, it is not a fail-safe precaution.
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While no one is saying anything for certain - and even though the company has some corruption fail-safes built into its software, the inkling seems to be that it is probably some kind of software glitch.
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Before he ever reached another catatonic state, emergency fail-safes would activate.
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And there is no fail-safe way to prevent people from gaining access to semi-automatic weapons - without banning them from the public at large.
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Scary enough, but the researchers also found that the corrupted system's self-analysing fail-safe would itself sometimes fail to detect the anomaly.
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I imagine there were fail-safes against something like that.
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A fail-safe system triggered a red signal, giving the driver of the train time to stop and remove the obstacle.
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Ramirez sat down, and typed in his personal code, overriding the General's fail-safes and security measures as he retook control of the automated defence systems.
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It's a cheap one, and does not seem to have some form of fail-safe opening-from-the-outside device, for people that have forgotten their keys.
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They also see prompts as a means for new users to teach themselves to use a device in a fail-safe manner.
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There are just so many fail-safes that you have to build in, because you only get one chance, and the cameras of the world are on you.
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A large fund was set up with a set of strict guarantees and fail-safes to provide the stream of income required for the maintenance of my crypt.
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We obviously have a great understanding of the system and there are numerous fail-safes, but it does get sporty.
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Ramirez sat down, and typed in his personal code, overriding the General's fail-safes and security measures as he retook control of the automated defence systems.
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The good news is that having your teeth professionally whitened is not only affordable, which should last a lifetime with occasional top-ups - it is also a simple, noninvasive and virtually fail-safe procedure.
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It has never really disappeared from our wardrobes, but the blazer, once a conservative fail-safe, is now the latest in casual chic.
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Eyewear of the appropriate optical density is worn when using devices not equipped with fail-safe mechanisms.
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Now, the team from Hull University is setting out to create a fail-safe detection mechanism for the placement of feeding tubes that is reliable and cheap to manufacture.
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It's pretty fail-safe, but you still have to pay attention to what you're doing.
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This is your fail-safe guide to the season's starriest looks.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the uninitiated, most ground forces still employ a final fail-safe method for testing the air before giving the ‘all clear’ message to soldiers wearing their gas masks.
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The big important systems such as atmosphere, food, environmental, navigation, and drill were protected with so many back-ups and fail-safes that it was almost impossible for them to freeze.
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Many shooters don't understand the purpose of such a dual action, assuming that the pump mechanism is a fail-safe against a malfunction with the semiauto mode.
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When we faint we return to normal breathing and so fainting is a fail-safe mechanism for hyperventilation control.
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I always use a temperature probe to check for done-ness when barbecuing - it's fail-safe.
The Sun
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Back when I was a kid, we had this fail-safe method for avoiding garage door accidents that was entirely cotter pin proof: Make sure nothing is under the door before you press the button.
Monday, Jan. 26 – The Bleat.
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Then the ice caps will be able to freeze again; it's a fail-safe mechanism.
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If a concrete field in a trait does not have a suitable default value, there is no "fail-safe" way to initialize the value.
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Fail-Safe was and remains a real crackerjack of a film.
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With modern systems that relied more on fail-safe electronic units than on mechanical devices that could break down or malfunction at any time, flying had become a lot safer these days.
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As an example, if you order a server from the company, when the order is submitted fail-safes within the system will alert us if a mistake has been made and won't allow the server to be configured incorrectly.
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Since that time the device has gone through rigorous testing to develop tamper-resistant and fail-safe systems.
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From being an overlooked, conservative fail-safe, it's shot up near the top of the list of summer desirables.
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a fail-safe recipe for cheese souffle
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Finally, the development of fail-safe statistics will assist in determining when knowledge cumulation should take a well-deserved rest, that an obtained result will not easily be overturned.
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We need more certainty about bias, some dependable, fail-safe test.
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But should the worse-case scenario happen, Robert teaches women some fail-safe moves which would disable an assailant.
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She wants not only clearer labelling but also a fail-safe device which would make it impossible for a drug to be wrongly administered.
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It sounded suspiciously similar to the phrase legion of demons that his superiors in the IDF often used to refer to the secret fail-safe he had buried beneath the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
THE PROMISED WAR
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I'm violently opposed to taking that on, but somehow I do believe that government will have to have a fail-safe protection on that piece of the retirement expense.
