Sentence examples for landmark failure from inspiring English sources

Tacoma Narrows Bridge, first suspension bridge across the Narrows of Puget Sound, connecting the Olympic Peninsula with the mainland of Washington state, U.S., and a landmark failure in engineering history.

But judged in terms of the professed goals of disarming Kim, securing stability in Northeast Asia and preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and missiles to deliver them, this approach has been a landmark failure.

Tubulo-interstitial fibrosis is a landmark of chronic renal failure, regardless of the underlying disease.

Of the unsuccessful guidewire placement, the incidence of advancement failure was significantly higher in landmark group (landmark: 40%, 12/30 vs. ultrasound: 7%, 2/30, P = 0.005).

What replaced it, as Harvard Law School's Bruce Mann reported in "Republic of Debtors," a landmark study of eighteenth-century financial failure, was something that has become a mainstay of American life: bankruptcy.

"Like other cold war commemorative efforts," Wiener notes, after tracking down the bronze plaque to an unmarked barn that receives an average of two visitors a year, "the pumpkin patch National Historic Landmark is remarkable primarily as a failure".

"Plastic People of the Universe" failed on all counts.Their inspiration was America's "Velvet Underground", a band managed by Andy Warhol which had been a spectacular commercial failure, but a cultural landmark.

Landmark techniques can result in technical failure in up to 20% of children.

Some of the investments made by Hughes proved to be failures, including the costly Landmark Casino, which went bankrupt, but others were outstanding successes that brought Hughes vast profits.

Not only does the local distinction not come with federal tax dollars, but the Cubs say the landmark status is a factor in their failure to follow the Fenway rebuilding model.

However, the incidence of advancement failure was significantly higher in landmark group (40% vs. 7%, P = 0.005).