It assumed that one-quarter of the missiles would malfunction, and that 12 missiles carrying 48 nuclear warheads would reach their targets in eight American cities in the middle of the night.
When we left him behind for a long Thanksgiving weekend at Big Sur, we spent the whole vacation worrying that his time-release food pellet would malfunction and he'd starve before we got home.
The nightmare scenario for the U.S. military — however unlikely — would be that the weapon would malfunction, fall into unfriendly hands and be taken apart and studied by an unfriendly government or terrorist group.
Many researchers have long believed that people are able to postpone their deaths when they face a major event like a family wedding, and perhaps the suspense of seeing whether computers would malfunction proved just too alluring, given the alternative of a funeral.
Initially, I didn't know what to do with myself having drank every night for years, slamming the brakes made me feel like the airbag would malfunction, beheading me.
Alonzo had been given more money to stay an hour later, and the sensors on the alarm system had been tinkered with so that it wouldn't malfunction.
In addition to the setting, part of the original concept for the show was that there would be a lot of advanced technology similar to that seen in Star Trek, but it would be constantly malfunctioning.
The goal was to record an episode, or one of the times that Fish's heart would malfunction, speeding up at random times, with no way for Fish to calm himself.
In the case of malfunctioning, it would also need to pre-empt engine failure before a crash landing.
Hence, it would be expected that malfunctions in factors necessary for secretion would affect the fertilizing potential of sperm [24], [25].
Three years ago Bill Wynn, then a database administrator for Citibank, kept noticing that whenever one user's PC froze, it would cause the database to malfunction, sometimes reducing the entire network's productivity.
