Sentence examples for appliances failed from inspiring English sources

Staying fresh was difficult in the first quarter, when same-store sales slumped 5.3% as positive growth in smartphones, tablets and appliances failed to overcome the decrease in sales of games, televisions and notebook computers.

Not many families would expect their oven to last five decades, but there is widespread anger over how many domestic appliances fail within a few years.

It will be too much and at about the same time as an appliance fails or the roof starts to leak.

Nokia appliances offer a way to monitor state information for each interface that help to determine which Nokia appliance has failed and which Nokia appliance has been promoted to primary or demoted to backup status.

Mr. Carey pointed out that the PC has succeeded where Internet-ready appliances have failed.

And Internet appliances have failed to catch on, in part because they are still tethered by wires or phone lines.

Indeed, Huang et al. [17] used finite elements analysis to evaluate the play and torque expression of pre-angled appliances, but failed to consider the bevelled edges of the archwires, meaning that those results have little bearing in real-world scenarios.

"The problem is that Audrey also tried to do both," Mr. Kasrel said, referring to 3Com's lightweight Internet appliance, which failed after less than a year.

Moreover, C&C appliances frequently fail to interpret dialectic or impaired speech, often encountered with physically challenged people.

"Somewhere between the meters and the appliances, the piping somehow failed," Chief Dixon said.

FROM Babylonian cuneiform to the recent crop of failed Internet appliances to Microsoft's grand plan to introduce a customized operating system later this year called Windows XP Tablet PC edition, communicating on a flat slab of material is the Once and Future Thing.