Sentence examples for failures of the rest from inspiring English sources
Thus many conventional explanations of Western success and the relative failures of the rest -- the conquest of the Americas, transmission of European diseases, slavery, the supposedly imprisoning effect of Western scholarship for Oriental societies -- have been far less significant than is widely claimed.
That led to catastrophic failures of the rest of the buildings.
In an FMEA, the basic process consists of compiling lists of possible component failure modes (all the ways in which an entity may fail), gathered from descriptions of each part of the system, and then trying to infer the effects of those failures on the rest of the system.
And the failure of the rest of the world economy to boom along with this export-dependent nation is a worry.
— John Brennan, President Obama's top counterterrorism official "Certainly, we have intelligence failure of the rest of the world including the United States".
With the success of ET and the relative failure of the rest of the crop, Hollywood took the safest, most obvious lessons from what had happened and the trend towards today's bland, boisterous multiplex began.
That the first half-hour or so of the film is so different, and offers such promise, makes the failure of the rest of the film all the more troubling.
I have to look a resilient group of people in the eye and acknowledge a failure of the rest of society to support their needs and interests.
Instead, we continue to push most of our young people through a single funnel called a four-year college education -- a funnel so narrow it's causing applicants and their parents excessive stress and worry about "getting in;" that's too often ill suited and unnecessary, and far too expensive; and that can cause college dropouts to feel like failures for the rest of their lives.
There must be devices which react to decrease the risks of critical failure for the rest of the structure.
Doing well may get you a promotion or a bonus; but screwing up usually means you have to look for a new job and bear the stigma of your failure for the rest of your career.
