Sentence examples for might fail for from inspiring English sources

He said that A.B.S. might fail, for example, when a driver does not maintain firm pressure on his brake pedal when a skid begins.

This particular DOMA challenge, brought by an eighty-three-year-old widow named Edith Windsor, might fail for any number of reasons, from questions of standing to the Canadian provenance of her wedding certificate (although her marriage was recognized by New York courts).

Thus, a "smart" building solution that proved its reliability for one building might fail for another.

While for given system parameters convergence of the detection process may be successful for flat channels, it might fail for frequency selective channels.

However, in practice, the assumptions behind the numerical computation might fail for some observations.

Appropriate antigen-dependent expansion of adaptive CD4+CD25highCD62L−Foxp3+ regulatory T cells from a pool of differentiating effector T cells might fail for the same reason.

While this fast-paced, meme-filled look at Twitter Moments is interesting to watch for the general public, it might fail to grip for someone who's on the fence or leaning toward consuming their tweets on CNN or ESPN.

Even as happiness might fail to suffice for well-being, well-being itself may be only one component of a good life, and not the most important one at that.

Myocardial perfusion might fail to compensate for the increased metabolic energy demand, resulting in an impaired myocardial contractility function [ 5].

A US-based survey found that nearly half of the health care workers might fail to report for duties during an influenza pandemic, particularly the technical and supporting staff [ 8].

Notice that with the introduction of the μ operator for the first time we encounter a recursive function that might fail to be defined for some arguments.