Sentence examples for fail-safe mechanism from inspiring English sources

Locomotives and other equipment often include a fail-safe mechanism known as a dead-man switch.

We had regular contact and he would help me with any problems, effectively he was a fail-safe mechanism.

Let's not forget that, in its early days, Channel 4 was underpinned by a fail-safe mechanism linked to ITV revenue.

"My guess is that John Q. Public thinks there is some fail-safe mechanism to protect him from incompetent physicians," Dr. Norcross said.

No Fail-Safe Mechanism The investigation into what happened to Mr. Jerome-Parks quickly turned to the Varian software that powered the linear accelerator.

Although BP attempted to activate the rig's blowout preventer (BOP), a fail-safe mechanism designed to close the channel through which oil was drawn, the device malfunctioned.

Mr. Pitt said that his conversations with the exchanges and investment houses made it clear that "notwithstanding the incredible amount of damage, there are a variety of fail-safe mechanisms," like backup record-keeping operations, that will enable trading to resume.

I am struck by the lack of fail-safe mechanisms in equipment, the lack of staff members overseeing doses and legislation that keeps deadly mistakes from being made public.

But the shameful failure of its feeble fail-safe mechanisms in the face of German and Japanese aggression proved all too clearly that no parliament of man (a term first coined by the young Tennyson) could afford to be blind to the real nature of states and of men.

I agree that egregious, life-changing errors should be compensated through malpractice suits, but I want to reassure patients that the medical community takes errors like these very seriously, and we now have many fail-safe mechanisms in place at most if not all hospitals.

These findings suggest that animal cells may have fail-safe mechanisms that prevent the surface expression of improperly folded proteins with unpaired or improperly bonded cysteine residues.