I'm not daunted by failure.
His Republican colleague in the House, Jim Ramstead, was not daunted by the failure of the program.
Failure isn't as daunting because we've experienced it and gotten through it.
Patients have reported that they do not enjoy posturing, but the prospect of repeat surgery after an initial failure is also very daunting.
But space agencies have never been the type to be daunted by such failures — and anyway, other parts of the mission are progressing as planned.
Moreover, for Johnson in particular, the consequences of losing were daunting: the new president would be seen as a failure, and another likely result would be more unrest.
In considering these questions, I couldn't help but observe that my daughter's failure in a digital game was nowhere near as daunting to her as failing in a classroom.
But between the cost of tuition and dark memories of failure at the blackboard, formally committing to edification can be daunting.
The complicated mathematical form of GIGP mixture, especially the appearance of the modified Bessel function, seems daunting for practical use; this is likely the primary reason for its failure to be widely used.
But the barriers to tourism are daunting: dozens of heavily-armed militias, a desperately weak central government, jihadi terrorism and, some warn, the looming threat of state failure.
