But there was an apparent malfunction in Houston's spell, a missing ingredient in his potion.
An apparent malfunction with the timers prevented the rockets from being launched.
Because the two questions concerned similar subject matter, there seems no logical explanation for the disparity in voting other than apparent malfunctioning of some of the voting machines".
The Atlanta Athletic Club's Highlands course has survived a brush with disaster — an apparent malfunction of lawn mower brushes that tore up two greens Wednesday night.
The Obama administration said the government had nothing to do with the Web site's apparent malfunction, pointing out that WikiLeaks had experienced technical problems before.
The issue initially prevented Dragon, which is carrying supplies and scientific experiments to the six astronauts aboard the orbiting outpost, from deploying its solar arrays, although there was no danger to anyone from the apparent malfunction.
An apparent malfunction of lawn mower brushes tore up patches of the 14th and 17th greens Wednesday night at the club's Highlands course, site of the P.G.A. Championship.
The two-hour show was tamer than past VMAs: the most shocking moment was Nicki Minaj's rump-shaking during her performance of Anaconda in the show's first minutes and her apparent wardrobe malfunction when she joined Ariana Grande and Jessie J for Bang, Bang.
Formal accident analyses have traditionally focused on engineering design, structural and functional factors, (e.g., component unreliability, software malfunction), apparent human behavioural failures and limitations (e.g., 'operator error'), or both.
Its methodologies and aims are directed at the scientific investigation of evolutionary causes for human disease, disorders, malfunctions and apparent design failures in order to improve health care and to stimulate fruitful research directions.
