Sentence examples for instrument failed from inspiring English sources

In that case, an instrument failed in a period of poor visiblity and the pilot, Carnahan's 44-year-old son, also became disoriented.

The instrument failed because it was complex, impractical, and could not produce sounds of any magnitude since amplifiers and loudspeakers had not yet been invented.

Only one potential earthquake was recorded (by the Viking 2 lander; the Viking 1 instrument failed), limiting the seismicity to levels significantly lower than the Earth.

The motor still working today after 6.5 million pivots—helped Voyager 1 scientists improvise measurements of the solar wind when a dedicated instrument failed. .

The stripes in Landsat ETM+ data (caused by the Scan Line Corrector in the ETM+ instrument failed On May 31 , 2003 have been removed by a developed model which identifies stripe positions based on edge-detection and applies line-tracing algorithms.

"The instrument failed in 1980, so the spacecraft is sort of instrument-challenged," Gurnett said.

Similarly, it may be argued that the reliability of a discriminative instrument fails to tell us how sensitive it is to cross-sectional differences.

An instrument with a poor ability to measure change can result in false-negative results in which the intervention improves how patients feel, yet the instrument fails to detect the improvement.

In three out of the four items, the two overlapping factors were the "appropriateness and usefulness" and "passive role", which share a common meaning that the instrument fails to discriminate.

"When Logic Dies," a white Formica table with medical instruments, failed to sell, but one of his dot paintings brought $314,000, above its $250,000 low estimate.

Concomitant push-pull manoeuver with right and left instruments failed to reduce the herniated bowel.