Sentence examples for close to failure from inspiring English sources

The show's secret engine, however, may be its willingness to tiptoe close to failure.

Cypress Gardens closed in 2003, and Weeki Wachee was close to failure.

Rigid plastic analysis was used to predict conditions close to failure.

The fraction of bimodal spectra increases initially, then decreases, and increases again when close to failure.

The dimensional exponents of a healthy bearing and a bearing close to failure are statistically different.

The pressure testing results indicate that cracking loads are close to failure loads.

To protect yourself from the humiliation of not being anyone's first choice as manager you want to redefine success as something closer to failure.

The chances are that he will succeed on both counts, but he will also know that he has never come closer to failure.

These men dream of glory but achieve, in its place, long, dull "stretches of competence" that, more often than not, feel closer to failure.

Toda, S., Lin, J. & Stein, R. Using the 2011 M w 9.0 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake to test the Coulomb stress triggering hypothesis and to calculate faults brought closer to failure.

"It may have brought other parts of the fault closer to failure, but we need more data to get the full picture," said the paper's lead author, Patricia Martínez-Garzón.