What is "failures"

Usage examples of "failures".

Commander Rogitel dealt harshly with failures and probably drastically with informers.

Attempts to model the failures on computer, and backtrack to a cause, led to six or seven different possible routes to trouble.

The others required multiple failures, and one clearly favored sabotage, with eight or ten minor mis-adjustments in remote compartments.

People did not care to hear that they were weaklings, failures, and ought to be done away with for the good of the race.

Truly rewarding and fulfilling occupations for the intelligent and well educated failures that this planet throws upon the altar of the organ!

Stev was a mechanical engineer with an uncanny ability to diagnose computer failures and rearrange chips to do twice the work they had been designed to handle.

As I mentioned in my last reports, we pinpointed the cause of our original failures and made the necessary corrections.

The vegetable garden, also walled, was coming on with few failures, and the rows could be quickly covered with plastic shields.

When she was home, he would listen to her descriptions of her projects-the failures and small successes-and encourage her.

Since they did not have that power, they just had to do their best with the swarms that kept rolling over the Sierras-and their best was spectacular beyond belief and even the failures were colossal.

It might have taken less time, except that three times he had mechanical failures, one a cracked cylinder.

There would be a few hours of frantic checking of inventories and mechanical status, a few hours more to repair the failures of two centuries of Dark and the hours of new heat.

There were so many ways it might have ended, some adventurous and gruesome, some—the most likely—involving old age and a string of business failures, ships lost to bankruptcy across dozens of light-years.

Sometimes they were ludicrous failures, sometimes marvelous improvements.

Over the last year, Rachner Thract had watched the mysteries and the failures encroach from all directions.