Sentence examples for computer that failed from inspiring English sources

She kept her business records on a personal computer that failed.

Many people tried to go to the roof on Sept. 11, the report noted, only to find the doors locked -- they were controlled by a computer that failed.

One example was a suit charging Buy.com, an online superstore, over an advertisement for a $269 computer that failed to disclose that to get that price the buyers had to sign up for three years of Internet service, among other conditions.

Some folks said their PC was slower following an update, and others ended up with a computer that failed to work or boot entirely.

Dr. Hoerling said he had run computer analyses that failed to confirm a widespread effect outside the Arctic from declining sea ice.

They say the problem was caused by malfunctioning computer systems that failed to store all electronic messages written to presidential aides from outside the White House.

Long-Term used complex computer models that failed to anticipate some severe once-in-a-lifetime market events, and it was shockingly leveraged — it was using $100 of borrowed money for every dollar of its own capital — which magnified its losses.

On top of that, the agency recently spent $178 million on a computer system that failed to send bills to many customers for months, and then sent ones that sharply inflated the actual amount of water and electricity used.

God appeared on no lists, and the explanations varied: a computer glitch that failed to register sales, the down-grading of bulk sales when lots of people attend a single event.

Much of sub-Sahara Africa is littered with the detritus of good intentions – projects from refrigerated fish-packing factories on desert lakes, to secondhand computers – that failed to meet real needs in the communities where they landed.

This is a computer-generated movie that fails to go the whole nine yards.