Sentence examples for failed to function properly from inspiring English sources

"The brakes in my legs failed to function properly, and I managed to stop only after 75 kilometers.

Instead, Mr. Yach said that a switch that linked its internal network to the Internet had failed to function properly.

Five days later, when Hurricane Irene struck the East Coast, emergency sirens failed to function properly at three nuclear plants, and at Indian Point a canal overflowed.

The blowout preventer on BP's doomed Macondo well failed to function properly when a piece of drill pipe prevented the single shear ram from closing completely.

In addition to the political battles over the passage and carrying out of the Affordable Care Act, she clashed with conservatives over contraception, and faced frequent calls for her political head by Republicans after the health care website failed to function properly last year.

The facility is also too close to Zipline's distribution center for drone deliveries to make much sense absent plans to scale up to other hospitals: if its drones failed to function properly, the company reckoned when selecting Kabgayi as its inaugural site, it could still deliver blood quickly by truck.

If a weakened PSV fails to function properly, a catastrophic event might occur if no other protective means are provided.

In the process, the mechanism for restoring our economy to healthy growth -- by reducing inventories and excess capacity -- fails to function properly.

By studying how specific genetic mutations cause a cell to become diseased and how the proteins made by the mutated genes fail to function properly, researchers hope to generate drugs or therapies that make up for the genetic defects behind many diseases.

However, in the low-SNR scenario, the algorithm fails to function properly.

Alternatively, hormone receptors in hybrids may fail to function properly due to the hybrid genetic background which could lead to a lack of response to hCG treatment.