Until now, he has struggled to match that high-water mark, failing to win more than one major a year.
He was slow off the mark, failing to make a single senior appointment for six weeks after he was elected and indulging instead in endless waffle.
She tries not to fall for the seductions that Collins says mark failing organizations: the belief that one magic move will change everything; the faith in perpetual restructuring; the tendency to replace questions with statements at meetings.
At a time when social media are making it harder for studio marketers to put lipstick on pigs, films like "Battleship," "Total Recall," "Rock of Ages" and "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" missed the creative mark, failing to charm either critics or audiences.
Schools and states that fail to make those targets are marked as failing under the law and face increasing sanctions.
Level 2 Statistical Spatial Consistency Check: Using weekly statistics, if observations from a particular site/sensor has failed any QC check 75%% of the time during the past 7 days, observations will be marked as failing this QC check until the failure rate falls below 25%%.
Any failure would lead to the pull request being marked as failing; no executable would be produced, preventing accidental deployments of a broken build.
The later years of both Claude Monet and Edgar Degas were marked by failing vision and corresponding changes in the style of their paintings, creating an ambivalence about their later work among both their contemporaries and today's critics.
First, the comparison between the present study and the one by Han et al yielded no significant differences in any of the four dimensions or total score; note however that two dimensions, bowel and systemic had marked differences, failing however to reach statistical significance.
Lauffer, who headed the physical education department for seven years, said that, in studying a computer printout of Washburn's grades in the spring of '85, he noticed three no-credit marks -- marks equivalent to failing grades, given when a student fails to complete course work.
