"if failure" is a perfectly valid and usable part of a sentence in written English.
For example: "If failure is not an option, you need to commit yourself to success."
Low bone BMD may be a factor in IF failure.
Many banks traded as if failure was a real possibility.
"If failure had an effect" on producers, he said, "then nobody would open a show".
People won't try out new ideas or approaches if failure is seen as a career-killer.
You will be responsible for additional storage costs if failure to deliver is due to circumstances beyond our control.
If failure is not an option, how do all of these content providers get their shows before eyeballs?
The ranking system is not intended to measure the likelihood of failure, but the potential damage if failure occurs.
If failure to borrow meant forgoing productive investments, bigger long-run deficits would actually be better than smaller ones.
So, to use another cliché, we need to always act as if failure is not an option?
This can make unintended behavior hard to predict; and if failure does occur, it can be difficult to explain why.
Active measures aim at modifying the slope conditions to reduce potential instability or, if failure has occurred, to restrict the development and the damaging capability of the event.
