Sentence examples for failure to drop from inspiring English sources

The failure to drop Fat Man at the precise bomb aim point caused the atomic blast to be confined to the Urakami Valley.

A Naval Board of Inquiry into the incident held Campanias watch officer largely responsible for her loss, citing specifically the failure to drop a second anchor once the ship started to drift.

The U.S. Military Attaché in Chungking speculated whether the flight would cause apprehension among the Japanese population that a subsequent raid would carry something more lethal than leaflets or whether the failure to drop bombs would be taken as a sign of weakness.

FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair has said the agency expects the number of failures to drop in 2011.

If a business makes it past the first four years, the rate of failure starts to drop significantly, the study found — and one's decision to escape the confines of the cubicle starts to look like a very good one.

The promotion was poorly received by both franchises and the public, and its failure prompted Burger King to drop JWT in 1987.

It explains why, as Ángel Rangel said afterwards, it would not be a failure if they were to drop into the lower half of the Premier League.

This is a season to enjoy and one to embed the club in its community, to elevate it above its giant neighbours, locally at least – a lesson in part learned by Getafe's failure to do the same, dropping down again a decade later without really building that base.

When subjected to an impact force, the bowing of the upright triggers progressive failure by allowing the pallets to drop through.

The lead rarely changes and half the cars are likely to drop out through mechanical failure.

Mass-suspension polymerisation was found to be more vulnerable to drop coalescence and process failure than conventional suspension polymerisation.