Sentence examples for machines that failed from inspiring English sources

So it wasn't just the press, but the party machines that failed to treat gay and lesbian people with respect, cowed by Fleet Street's ferocity.

So Mr Carswell, who has not been rebuked by David Cameron, has set a dangerous precedent in attacking the Chair of the Commons and not the party machines that failed to clean up a rotten "system".

In Florida, punch-card machines that failed to record votes properly and ballots that were poorly designed were among the many problems that threw the 2000 presidential election into turmoil.

Several large counties, including Los Angeles and San Diego, are still using punch-card voting machines that failed in Florida in 2000, and many counties are being forced to consolidate polling places because they do not have the time or money to conduct a full-scale election.

On Tuesday my own polling place had a machine that failed to list the offices the candidates were running for.

Allardyce was quick to point out that much will depend on Monday night's draw but optimism abounds at West Ham, with or without the bubble machine that failed to make the trip to Ashton Gate.

Polygraph advocates cite accuracy estimates of ninety per cent — which sounds impressive until you think of the people whose lives might be ruined by a machine that fails one out of ten times.

In the case of many other actions, however, rationality seems to be simply irrelevant: jumping up and down in glee, kicking a machine that fails to work, or merely tapping one's fingers impatiently are actions that do not seem to be performed for any particular reason.

According to the New York Daily News, other voting issues Tuesday included broken machines, stations that failed to open on time, and poll workers urging voters to support Bernie Sanders.

One of the more powerful contributions was Holbrooke's own angry piece from 1970 ("The Machine That Fails"), written with the door swinging behind him, about State's many shortcomings -- an essay that stood all too well the test of time.

And it just hit me that at least one of those chats might survive; on an old answering machine tape; a machine that sometimes failed to shut off when talk began.