Sentence examples for error for failing from inspiring English sources

Thole, who held his ground before turning his body slightly at the moment of impact, was charged with an error for failing to hold on to the ball.

The manager Life and times Pulis is on his second stint in charge, having been sacked in 2005 after three years for the unusual error of "failing to exploit foreign markets" in his transfer dealings.

Type II error is the error of failing to observe a difference when in truth there is one.

The tax office's own records show a series of errors, from failing to credit taxpayers for their payments to applying money to the wrong accounts.

Government investigators ended up blaming both St . Vincents, for failing to catch the error, and Varian, for its flawed software.

Dr. Chen said he would fine the hospital about $10,000 for misdiagnosing the patient's disease for five days and for failing to report its error for two days longer.

I suppose this was my punishment for failing to notice the error earlier.

17 We chose to examine participants with uncorrected refractive error, as inadequate refractive correction is a common reason for failing the number-plate test.

In the early 1990s, Texas fined publishers about $1 million for failing to remove hundreds of factual errors the Gablers had found in 11 history books.

The NTSB faulted the plane's builder, Scaled Composites, and a lax Federal Aviation Administration for failing to head off the possibility that human error could lead to catastrophe.

Pujols had been heavily criticized for failing to speak with reporters after Game 2, when he was hitless and made a pivotal error in a Cardinals loss.