Sentence examples for defining failure from inspiring English sources

Most prime ministers, especially the short-lived kind, are remembered for a single achievement or, more often, for one defining failure.

Elimination at the hands of a team who could well be absent from European competition next year could be a defining failure not just for the ageing core of this Mk1 project team, but for their manager too.

The defining failure of Bill Clinton's presidency is that his most public expression of anger in nearly eight years in office did not serve to galvanize public sentiment on poverty or health care or racial injustice.

Failure probability is determined based on two different criteria for defining failure time: A) crack initiation and B) crack extension to near control rod channel.

These tests also determined the limits of monolithic behaviour of the masonry, thus defining failure and enabling the fulfilment of practical engineering requirements.

Defining failure as either sliding or complete loss of adhesion, the maximum torque applied before adhesive failure at the cup plate interface was quantified using an MTS materials testing system.

Sanchez, who has been under fire this season for his poor performance and was pulled mid-game two weeks ago, connected on just 13 of 28 passes for 131 yards in a season-defining failure.

"You have to define failure.

So while schools must now bus children from failing schools, each state may define failure in its own way.

He suggests three possible solutions: Define failure on your own terms.

They limit the scope of these programs, clearly define failure and success at the outset, and decide when to measure the new program's merits.