Sentence examples for a failure cascade from inspiring English sources
That's a failure cascade.
Indeed, once self-regulation fails, complex systems of all kinds can be claimed by a version of this process, sometimes called a failure cascade.
Such is the power of homeostasis that it's hard to see a failure cascade coming; everything returns to normal, until normality gives way.
In this case, the failure cascade was interrupted by a lucky negative feedback (the inadvertent propeller feathering).
But if workers cannot trip those breakers fast enough, Mr. Schewe said, a failure could cascade into a much larger blackout.
Meanwhile, the failure cascaded to neighbouring regions.
A series of political decisions, cascading down through the years in much the way the power failure cascaded through the electric grid last week, led to the current standoff.
Often failure cascades and knock-on effects are extremely difficult to predict ahead of time.
Ford's chief executive, Alan R. Mulally, said the prospect of a failure of G.M. would cascade through the entire domestic auto industry and put millions of jobs at risk.
In case of a failure in the IRS cascade binding, it may cause hyperinsulinemia and peripheral insulin resistance [8].
The safety board has described it as a fire event that was caused when a failure in one cell cascaded to others, in what the board referred to as a thermal runaway.
