In a recent, failed competition entry, BIG designed a pier for a city in Florida; it ended in a hundred-and-thirty-foot-high loop that had a garish, theme-park connection to the idea of a breaking wave.
Mint Director Edward Leech responded to the failed competition by directing Barber to prepare new designs for the dime, quarter, and half dollar.
Curtis was well aware of the difficulties with the Mint's failed competition for new silver coins in 1891, which had led to the issuance of the Barber coinage, designed by Mint Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber.
Leech responded to the failed competition by directing Barber to prepare new designs for the dime, quarter dollar, and half dollar, resulting in the Barber coinage, an issue which attracted considerable public dissatisfaction.
Many horses may fail in competition because of the difference between the training and competition environments and thus the lack of training to generate appropriate emotional (and thus behavioral) responses to the latter.
King quotes the American political analyst Thomas Frank approvingly on the way "these hymners of Darwinian struggle, of the freedom to fail, of competition to the death, advance their war on the world by means of tearful weepy-woo".
When city officials decided in 1997 not to participate in the state's plan for power deregulation, there was some concern that the city's financially troubled Department of Water and Power might fail as competition with investor-owned utilities led to lower rates.
The cost differences were increasing from 2013 given the implication that future manufacturing cost could widen the gap between Korea and China so that Korea would fail on competition with China from the simple estimated results.
The quest to be younger has become a social -- even societal -- sport, but we will all fail this competition.
Ward said she had never failed a competition's veterinary test in the eight years he had competed with her.
In my models, competitive costs are not an insurmountable obstacle; although multiple preferences fail to alleviate competition, they don't appear to be significantly more costly than a single preference, and in fact serve to increase indirect selection on preferences (see Figure 1; the minimum α required for preference evolution is lower for multiple preferences).
