How To Use Failure In A Sentence

Recent studies have revealed a correlation between prognosis in heart failure and plasma levels of such neurohormones as endothelin, norepinephrine and renin, among others.
It is the failure of the diaphragmatic pinchcock to open, as in the normal deglutitory cycle, rather than a spasmodic tightness, that obstructs the food. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
Sometimes, when people die of heart failure, they first suffer angor animi, anguish of the soul. Times, Sunday Times
The French and Dutch results were punishment for political failure on a grand scale.
Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure. Thomas A. Edison

Urging fellow MPs to buy ozone-friendly products, she said failure to do so would leave the world without an ozone layer. ANC Daily News Briefing
The failure of the monsoon would destroy harvests on which 1000 million people rely.
Heart failure means that the heart muscle is not pumping well enough to meet the need for oxygen-rich blood.
Thus America has responded to the enormous challenges the economy faces in the short-term and long-term alike with a complete failure of vision and verve. Andrei Cherny: Individual Age Economics
Their failure to reply to our letter seems to imply a lack of interest.
whatsit", and then Dr Watson may decide that dumpreg. exe is itself unresponsive so it launches further instance (s) of dumpreg. exe to report the failure (s) of the previous instance (s), and the system suffers a fatal embrace and hardly ever looks at the mouse and keyboard to see me hammering away in desperation. DonationCoder.com Forum
Were they spiritualized, minimized, or did they fail to find fulfillment only because of the failure of the restoration to materialize?
I would revoke all building codes other than those where a failure of a building can affect neighboring properties: requirements for fire-retardant materials in roofing materials, or inspections to assure the structural integrity of a building taller than its distance from the property line are the sorts of things that come immediately to mind. The Volokh Conspiracy » Does the Supposedly Superior Expertise of Regulators Justify Libertarian Paternalism?
It will be no more a failure than any death after a full life is a failure. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
But these statistics represent neither success nor failure in this complex counterinsurgency. Times, Sunday Times
Failure to have the service done may invalidate some extended warranties or service contracts.
I wouldn't care success or failure, for I will only struggle ahead as long as I have been destined to the distance. I wouldn't care the difficulties around, for what I can leave on the earth is only their view of my back since I have been marching toward the horizontal.
In the case of marriage, calling SSM discriminatory or segregationist represents either a failure to adequately recognise the sexuality of the individual involved or more perniciously to regard that distinction as immaterial or undeserving of respect. Why are only queer rights on the chopping block?
The tragedy is that these are doomed to failure because they are in no way, enhancers of resources.
Safety reports have shown that management failures are responsible in most cases.
Fossilized distrust indicates failure at this key democratic task of holding majorities and minorities together.
Lawyers acting for the victims - including the parents of twins who suffered kidney failure - are claiming damages for injury and consequential loss. The Sun
Note that there were the usual raft of excuses and alibis following the failures.
He called the PM a failed leader and tried to partly blame him for the fiasco over failure to deport foreign prisoners. The Sun
His main concern, he said, was with the division's failure to deliver orders for unbundled lines correctly first time around. Times, Sunday Times
Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency: a hereditary disease that can cause hepatitis and liver failure. Who needs a liver transplant?
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
Experts said the problem appeared to be an "uncontained engine failure," which occurs when turbine debris punctures the engine casing and the light cowling that covers the unit. Quantas Airbus Problem: Airline Grounds All A380s After Engine Fire Over Indonesia
An equipment failure of accident on the moon could have left the astronauts stranded.
They will rue their failure to score a try when they had a numerical advantage but they still looked good in attack. Times, Sunday Times
Despite this apparent initial failure, which was openly scorned by China's state media as "performance art", the boxun.com blog site asked again for what it called "strolling protests" against the ruling Communist Party at 2pm on Sunday. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Mental attitude plays a far more important role in a person's success or failure than mental capacity.
Failure to approve them in a vote this week could block the next tranche of €3 billion from international creditors. Times, Sunday Times
Based on several large studies that demonstrated CRT can save lives and prevent hospitalization among heart-failure patients, professional guidelines were developed that recommend its use based in part on a measurement recorded by an electrocardiogram called the QRS duration. Scrutiny for Heart Devices
His criticism was over the failure to deport foreign citizens after they had served a jail sentence and the backlog of failed asylum cases. Times, Sunday Times
He says fear of failure keeps him afloat. Times, Sunday Times
It is a story not in fact of possibility but of one central failure. Times, Sunday Times
Because of the UN failure, the Croatian government has now launched military action to reestablish control over part of the occupied areas.
The attempt ended in abject failure.
Failure to produce proof of identity could result in prosecution.
Hospital readmissions and general practice consultations often occur soon after the diagnosis of heart failure.
The temperature limiting device is of the manual reset, trip-free type and has been factory installed to interrupt all ungrounded power supply conductors in the event of thermostat failure.
The failure of such simple-minded thinking has also been proven by its total failure for Cuba, which has survived under American sanctions for more than four decades.
The failure of baby boomers to effectively communicate with younger generations of soldiers is driving many captains out of the Army.
The reason for the disaster was engine failure, not human error.
Lessons of IVF babies mix-up ‘will be learned’ Report pinpoints series of failures at Yorkshire fertility clinic where white couple had mixed-race twins in error
After a time teaching drama in borstals, prisons and community centres, he suffered two more breakdowns until one day, while sitting on a bus, his persistent angst, dread and fear of failure simply evaporated.
I'm thinking my next project will be a hat, although I need to learn more before I try it, because my other attempts have mostly ended in failure, with me taking out all the stiches. Archive 2010-01-01
The buyer's failure on getting the export license should not be regarded as force majeure.
Her parents had long since branded her a failure.
After all, failure to do so could leave them as hapless bystanders in a game of musical chairs which may be nearing its climax.
Educators blame the lack of interest or knowledge of civics on several things, including grade inflation, overemphasis of test scores, and failure to teach the relevance of the Constitution.
Both failures came when the seat was being used with its five-point harness; CR's testers found no problems in booster seat mode. Evenflo Maestro car seat recalled after failing Consumer Reports test
There has never been an indication that this poppet was prone to failure. Another Launch Delay for STS-119 - NASA Watch
Every time I see the papers commentating on an English sporting team they are either praised as the next World Champions or damned as sporting failures.
Laying over on his long journey south, Grayson found that the failure to decide the location of the future capital, in whatever location, Pennsylvania or the Potomac, “is much reprobated in this City”; much of that opprobrium, naturally, fell on Morris. Robert Morris
Each of the slave nodes has a timer programmed with a separate failure mode detection time period.
The failure to produce the documents at the initial disclosure stage was a significant breach. Times, Sunday Times
The tech giant will trawl anonymous confidential data to spot people at risk of kidney disease, blood poisoning and organ failure. The Sun
They were such important providers of mortgages and business loans that failure would have been catastrophic. Times, Sunday Times
We have made certain that the reason of the splined spindle rapture is fatigue failure, its crack initiation lies in the minimal knuckle curvature radius surface region of the spline dedendum bottom.
The funds are supposed to reimburse policyholders in the event of insurer failure.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure will turn to glorious success.
Severe vomiting, diarrhoea, rectal tenesmus: unable to keep standing, she urinates under herself; the pupils are dilated, the eyes haggard; complete mind-blindness, near-total failure of reflexes, deep unconsciousness, breathing dyspneic, heart-beat faint and very fast, pulse barely perceptible; dead in thirty-six hours. Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture
BRUSSELS—Russia's failure to rescind a ban on European Union fruit and vegetable imports, agreed at a summit last week, has riled the European Commission, which is requesting the ban be removed immediately. EU: 'No Justification' for Russia Vegetable Ban
Having an incompetent person in a ministry leads to frustration, failure, and hurt. Christianity Today
For the stupid person up there that wrote "the failure of 08 begins" I can tell you that's exactly the opposite: "the recover 08 begins", no more Bush mistakes and his heir is going to be defeated big time, is going to be a victory by a huge margin!!! Obama: The general election fight should start next week
Worst of them is the failure to show us the beanstalk growing. Times, Sunday Times
Neither can I conclude that even a failure to adhere to good practice necessarily equates with maladministration.
Contractors will fabricate and test advanced structural components to failure to validate performance relative to predicted performance.
Mental attitude plays a far more important role in a person's success or failure than mental capacity.
The three visiting prime ministers also met with their Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, who blamed Ukraine for failure to honor a multilateral agreement to resume shipment of gas to Europe.
In some cases, the method will be used to switch off rogue genes that promote conditions such as heart failure or cancer. Times, Sunday Times
The political and philosophical failure of recent years has been to deny that relationship. Times, Sunday Times
If all of this is true, then to try starting any hay crop without chemicals, tillage or nurse crops will most likely end in failure.
I was feeling like a complete failure because, jeepers, java moss is supposed to be fairly indestructiable. Day in the Life of an Idiot
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Having watched reasonably moderate candidates lose the last two presidential elections in heartbreaking fashion, and feeling further frustrated by the steady failure to win either house of Congress, Democrats have made it an article of faith that they lack the political and policy mechanisms to compete with their Republican counterparts. Take Two: Hillary's Choice
These tumors are highly aggressive, with most deaths related to hepatic failure, massive hemorrhage, or metastatic disease.
Zenuk C, Healey J, Donnelly J, et al. Thiamine deficiency in congestive heart failure patients receiving long term furosemide therapy. Hyla Cass, M.D.: Is Your Medication Robbing You of Nutrients Part 2: Getting Specific
The data recovery of hard disk software failure can be solved by the following ways, the recovery of main boot partition, partition table, DBR, zero track and the file deleted by mistakes.
But this idea does point in the right general direction: toward a kind of inner conflict, toward what I have called a kind of "brokenness" in the human psyche, and in particular toward a failure of integration within the person of the creature's feelings and needs and impulses on the one hand, and the moral injunctions internalized from the socializing culture on the other. A Piece (from Huffington Post) on the Right's Manifest Hypocrisy Problem
Lemos resigned on March 25, allegedly in indignation at the failure of Barco to defend him against opposition charges.
You spend four or so years in "blocked" college time, serene in the knowledge that nothing will change (short of failure, which is of the catastrophic/sublime mode). Archive 2003-05-01
Workers in some of America's most dangerous industries such as meatpacking, poultry and construction ... are being forced by their employers to pay for their own safety gear because of OSHA's failure to finish the PPE rule," a joint statement by the two labor groups declared. Unions sue Bush Dept. of Labor over worker deaths; 50 deaths, 400,000 injuries tied to OSHA's inaction
The Pre-Parliament was an obvious failure and Lenin continued to bombard his lieutenants with demands for a forcible seizure of power.
These situations often call for special schemas defining information for every specific error, thus effectively extending domain semantic model to describe failure scenarios.
Corruption takes root when donors expect failure and recipients know that dismal performance will bring no adverse consequences.
His face fell, as if he had just learnt of a sudden failure of all the plane's engines.
The council's failure to act is a scandal.
One-year mortality was reduced regardless of gender, presence of diabetes mellitus or heart failure, or treatment with diuretics, digitalis, beta blockers or anticoagulants.
You make the failure complete when you stop strying.
Let us peel away some of the layers of gilt and glimpse at some of the failures.
Of course, he could not pull it off, and in the times since when he did need it, it was too late, for his first failure had queered it. Chapter 9
He has deemed himself a failure and largely abandoned literature, but Jed's portrait of him captures his bygone intensity—"he appears to be in a trance, possessed by a fury that some have not hesitated to describe as demoniac. Reflections on Self-Regard
Don't let fear of failure prevent you from making effective choices and firm decisions. Dr Roopleen
Were they really so thinly capitalized that any haircut would have triggered system-wide failures?
The report reveals that decisions are based on ‘inaccurate and out-of-date country information, unreasoned decisions about people's credibility and a failure to properly consider complex torture cases.’
Two weeks later, Zeng died, ostensibly of ‘congenital maldevelopment of brain function’ and ‘total circulatory failure.’
Pre-wedding nerves can sometimes cause a groom to have a total sense of humour failure when a harmless little prank - shaving his eyebrows, say, or tattooing his cheeks - is played on him.
Another failure in the system is the delay in patients being referred to a specialist at the first signs of disease. Times, Sunday Times
Another crop failure could result in widespread famine.
The inability to outscore opponents is the kind of problem that dooms individuals, teams and species to utter failure.
The long-range airliners have suffered at least three dozen similar failures involving faulty speed readings, it has emerged over the past month. Times, Sunday Times
Early this year, the House annulled the government's decision to raise the telephone rates by up to 35 percent, citing the government's failure to meet its promise of establishing the agency prior to the hike.
The cardiogenic condition was mainly because of left ventricular failure.
We should not try to seek a simple explanation for the failure to achieve numerical equity because none exists.
Three more common conditions associated with altered autonomic function include neurogenic essential hypertension, psychogenic ischemic heart disease, and congestive heart failure.
Experimental data shows that link failure can be solved and new route found by MPLS-based DiffServe network.
a small set of men, some of whom are possessed of great ability and have accomplished much, but as a religion in any adequate sense of the word positivism will be admitted a failure by its most sincere adherents. Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy
Failure to check the street or driveway for dripping antifreeze, which is poison for pets, is the cause of another common holiday pet problem. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
She blamed him for the failure of their marriage/blamed the failure of their marriage on him.
Then, every Republican Party bigwig, in an effort to explain away their own failings, or the failure of the policies they advocated, will say, "Oh, well, let's remember, it was a pretty weak field. The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Aug. 26, 2011
Either that or a failure to embrace the new. Times, Sunday Times
Guilt and anger seem to have been much more the products of his early personal and political failure than the war. THE GUARDSMEN
But, most of these figures have a limited range of posture, with the bent head, suggesting defeat, or failure.
Not the current General Secretary, of course, who had somehow managed to advance despite his failures there. Red Storm Rising
But the PDP blamed its failure on what it described as irreconcilable differences and divisions in the state chapter of the party. Thisday Online
An action may also be brought against the Commission for failure to act under Article 232.
The classic presentation of poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis is a full-blown nephritic syndrome with oliguric acute renal failure.
Elgar received many honors and much acclaim and yet he often considered himself a failure.
From being tagged a failure, a boy who could not even produce a straight line on paper or understand decimals, I trusted in words, and I wrote my first poems.
It is increased in failing human hearts and contributes to the loss of the heart's contractile strength during the development of heart failure.
National Society, for in this way even the small college becomes a link in this great chain of organization, and the efforts of its faculty may bear fruit, whereas unsystematized work is little better than a failure. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891
The brightest bloom in the bouquet of sound bites was ‘failure does not equate to a crime.’
He proposes that we read the novel's valorization of failure as its way of preserving the possibility of a utopian future.
-- despiritualize me completely -- does it mean eventual barrenness, eventual remorse, failure? Flappers and Philosophers
Dramatic mental failures of this sort shade into failures of empathy, a deficit found in many sociopaths, who also show reduced function of the frontal cortices.
Failure is the mother of success.
the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster
It is a genetic kidney disease which usually affects young men and can cause kidney failure and deafness. The Sun
kidney failure
The major contributing factor for heart failure decompensation was medication lapses.
The system collects a wide variety of quarterly data from different systems pertaining to reparable items such as failures, lead times, base and depot repair times, and excess inventory.
Education and knowledge without hard work do not necessarily guarantee success, and imprudence, indiscipline and emotional impulsivity contribute to failure. Dr T.P.Chia
If you look at Obama's full quote -- which you can read right here -- it's very clear that Obama was not directly "regretting" the failure of the court to be "radical. McCain Campaign Falsely Claims Obama Described Court's Failure to Redistribute Wealth As "Tragedy"
These exposures are usually the result of accidents, spills, or equipment failure.
In a statement Deputy Kenny said that after reading the reports, he believes the Taoiseach was the chief architect of the "catastrophic failures of policy" that led directly to our current economic crisis. Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie
Same as the World Bank, International Financial Corporation is reluctant to admit lending default or investment failure.
This is the price for successive governments' failure to build power plants. The Sun
His criticism was over the failure to deport foreign citizens after they had served a jail sentence and the backlog of failed asylum cases. Times, Sunday Times
As I remarked in my post at the time, if anything is to be learnt in the post-mortems, it is that there is plenty of failure all round for all sides to digest.
This is a general contractual principle - whenever anyone undertakes to secure a particular end, failure to do so is breach of contract.
It is true that the code is 'denser' - that is, more functionality in less typed space - and consequently a user might spend more time working on fewer lines of code, but we are betting that the number of failure modalities is smaller (fewer ways to mess up); and there's less code 'real estate' to observe and comprehend. MSDN Blogs
The failure of the engines had cut the main power. Times, Sunday Times
It is against these projections and insinuations that Luzhin tries to devise a defence, the failure of which has tragic consequences.
But failure to create a viable land settlement was politically perilous.
The failure of a laboratory's computer system has the potential to disrupt work flow, compromise business interests, and delay or perturb patient care.
Zachriel: Rapid climate change will result in agricultural failure, flooding of highly populated coastal areas, dislocation, disease, migration, mass extinctions, political instability and human suffering. About: Blinded by Science
Heart failure is the most common single cause of death in many hospital medical wards.
The Prime Minister expressed her regret at the failure of the talks.
The wife sued the patient's therapist alleging a failure of duty to protect.
Many personal bankruptcies are related to small business failures because business loans are often secured over personal assets.
Although dogs and cats can be subject to urinary tract calculi, it is generally not in conjunction with chronic renal failure, since animals with CRF generally exhibit dilute urine coupled with polyuria.
At the bottom of Rover's long-term failure is a hopelessly crude conception of what constitutes enterprise and business success.
The syncopations available through this electro-extension were captivating, though Kim's performance was unfortunately marred by the multiple technical failures.
All of which suggests that better maintained rail track in the first place would avoid failures. Times, Sunday Times
The second law can be applied to the prediction of creep failure, such as rockslides, colluvial-deposit landslides and loess landslides as well as clay landslides with locked patches.
It's failure is based on unrivalled extravagance and excess, poor management and a desire to ignore any form of business or common sense.
Other well-known writers emphasize not the failures of servants, but the tyranny of masters.
The failure to address indiscipline by proper punishment is a victory for the do-gooders and defeat for children's education.
In practice, the forced resettlement of rural populations into ujamaa villages was met with great local opposition, and Tanzanian socialism has largely proven to be an economic failure.
Their failure is not simply one of crabbiness or rancour; it's a failure of imagination.
The medical device industry cannot deliver anything close to perfection unless it expects failure.
Failure by the political parties to address the vital insurance issue in their election manifestos has been roundly condemned by the Construction Industry Federation.
It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part. Times, Sunday Times
If you have failures about the corticosteroids you are taking, affect of sucralfate on omeprazole with your doctor, nurse, or pharmacist. Wii-volution
Conscience is a function of the ego ideal, and is critical of failure to live up to the ego ideal.
Every failure one meets with adds to one’s experience.
Winner of Best Politics Blog and Best News & Current Affairs Blog order of business in the Dail is the worst political failure I have seen: Irish Blogs
He has received more opportunities this season and is back scoring tries but still, King has gone for his perceived failure to find that offensive spark. Times, Sunday Times
Heart failure is a complex syndrome that affects multiple organ systems and has a great impact on the lifestyle of patients.
All of which suggests that better maintained rail track in the first place would avoid failures. Times, Sunday Times
I felt I was a detestable person and I hated myself and had all the feelings of failure.
They can be the difference between dismal failure and glory. The Sun
Success and failure hinge on achieving personal artistic fulfillment and public acclaim.
The public has grumbled to a point where it has lost faith in the Authority because of its failure to carry out its mandate.
But with liver failure you would expect to see fluid retention elsewhere and his legs look normal. The Sun
LONDON (Reuters) - Patients with chronic kidney failure could be freed from fixed dialysis machines, thanks to a wearable artificial kidney that has shown promising results in a pilot study.
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
The only bleat was City's failure to turn such superiority into goals.
The fact that he was willing to do damage to the country with useless concessions to a party that has proven itself a moral and intellectual failure to them on his side was extremely disturbing, and the fact that he succeeded not at all in unsurprising. Matthew Yglesias » Yglesias on Maddow
The police are still smarting from their failure to prevent the robbery.
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
However, I can not help but be amazed by the failure to set logical premiums.
Five successive failures; they made the final only once. Times, Sunday Times
The analysis showed Celebrex was associated with an increased risk for a combined study endpoint of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction (heart attack), stroke, heart failure or thromboembolic event, or events related to blood clots, compared to patients not taking the drug. Higher Doses of Pfizer's Celebrex
Last month's bad weather was responsible for the crop failure.
Our bewilderment derives from our failure to turn inward and really examine the workings of our own minds.
Requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures.
For even in case of its failure, a descent of one species from another through heterogenetic generation is certainly very possible. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
However, we also recognise that these extra resources will not go far enough to solve the problems and prevent more business failures and bed blocking.
These failures will continue to happen unless the government tackles the heart of the problem - the chronic underfunding of social care. Times, Sunday Times
He is said by colleagues to be a hard taskmaster who does not tolerate failure.
- pertaining to surface. acrotism, n. failure of pulse. Xml's Blinklist.com
It torments me as I stroll the course, wallowing in spectacular failure.
The final project paper critically analyzes the project's successes and failures.
It may culminate in chronic valvular disease and can lead to heart failure and ultimately death.
Failure to follow applicable notice requirements may render any action taken at the improperly called meeting invalid. Christianity Today
The answer to failure and sin is not to move the goalposts but to repent and try again.

How To Use Failure In A Sentence

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