Possible results are a malfunctioning electrical system and failure to start.
More often than not, however, the uncanny silence was a result of the car's failure to start.
The Fed's failure to start the taper in September, as many observers had expected, brought temporary respite.
The flurry of two-way and regional trade talks belies the failure to start a global round of negotiations to replace the one that collapsed in Seattle.
While presiding over the State Senate as lieutenant governor, he became irked by its failure to start sessions promptly at 1 p.m.
The normal lead when three suits have been bid is the fourth, so West's failure to start with a spade strongly suggested that he held the ace.
On the other hand, one argument advanced for Makaay's failure to start regularly for Holland, as Ruud Gullit indicated last week, is that he accepts his subordinate role without a squeak.
Ford readily acknowledges that he had a terrific career with the Yankees — 13 World Series in his 15 seasons — but if he had a regret it was his failure to start the Series opener against Pittsburgh in 1960.
He found his future wife, and became a father for the first time, but he returned to the United States in 1962, bitterly disappointed in his failure to start over in Russia.
In T.S.B.'s M170412, M170512, M170612, M170712, M170812 and M170912 issued on Oct. 1, Mini's parent company, BMW, said that corrosion in the contacts of the sensor in some 2011-12 models could cause an inaccurate temperature reading, illumination of the Service Engine Soon light or a failure to start.
