Sentence examples for fail possibly from inspiring English sources

In 2006, the automaker recalled about 827,000 from the 2002-6 model years because the front lower ball joints could fail, possibly leading to a loss of steering.

In 2004, a UBS director, Serge Karp, described in an e-mail message a "worst case scenario" in which Mr. Madoff's company would fail, possibly leaving UBS responsible for investor claims.

They found significant evidence that more man-made CO2 is staying in the atmosphere to exacerbate the greenhouse effect because the natural "carbon sinks" that have absorbed it over previous decades on land and sea are beginning to fail, possibly as a result of rising global temperatures.

In this situation, any disruption to the server causes all client applications to fail, possibly causing idle staff, and lost productivity.

In particular, if no countervailing actions are taken, what would be perceived as an implicit expansion of the safety net could exacerbate the problem of "too big to fail," possibly resulting in excessive risk-taking and yet greater systemic risk in the future.

But when he was 25, Ari's kidneys failed, possibly as a result of his disease, and his health deteriorated.

And at two other reactors, their attempts to open the valves failed, possibly because the equipment itself was damaged in the earthquake.

In the 1990's, there were thousands of programs in common use that would have failed, possibly in subtle, hard-to-detect ways, had they not been corrected in advance of Jan . 1 2000.

In another case last summer that involved a different bank and is still under investigation, a transplant simply failed, possibly because that bank's units had too few of a certain kind of cell that makes a transplant successful.

Since that was knocked out in the earthquake, and diesel generators later failed — possibly because of the tsunami — the operators have used a makeshift system for keeping cool water on the fuel rods.

However, construction of the plasmid failed, possibly owing to a slight expression of cre downstream of the fungal gene promoter in Escherichia coli.