Sentence examples for confluence of failures from inspiring English sources

Their desire has its roots in a confluence of failures (the defeat in 1940 and the loss of their colonial empire) and the rejection, by other European nations, of building a Europe à la française — France on a bigger scale.

The existing risk management paradigm, thus, effectively regards an injury event as a failure within the system (or a chain or confluence of failures of system components).

Some academics, like Elizabeth Warren, a bankruptcy expert at Harvard Law School, argue that, contrary to the popular image of affluent boomers spending their way to consumer heaven, this is "the most vulnerable generation" because of the confluence of potential failures that they face, from the loss of a job to catastrophic illness to the effects of divorce and the need to care for aging parents.

There are risks in throwing any kind of off-the-grid event, but it's hard to imagine a more nightmarish confluence of structural failures.

Alibaba Group's decision to gradually cease operating its Yahoo-branded properties is a reminder of the struggles that major U.S. Internet companies including Google, eBay and Amazon have faced in China due to confluence of factors including government censorship, failure to localize effectively and the rapid rise of Chinese companies like Baidu and Tencent.

Between 2006 and 2011, he argues, there was a confluence of horrifying illustrations of regulatory failure, including the Wall Street-led financial meltdown, the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and the Upper Big Branch mine calamity that were comparable to the failures that led to the New Deal and the regulatory reforms of the 1960s and 1970s.

At a press conference on Wednesday to explain the outage since about 7.30pm on Tuesday, the small business minister, Michael McCormack, blamed the failure on a "confluence of events" but said the system had not been breached and no data was lost.

Perrow observed that, as technological systems become ever more complex, disasters that appear to result from a confluence of bad coincidences become, in fact, unavoidable, as a failure in one part causes a failure in another and another in ways that no designer could predict.

It is an expensive confluence of problems.

My purchase followed a confluence of events.

Jarvis faces a bizarre confluence of events.