Sentence examples for minor failures from inspiring English sources

But the region escaped yesterday with only minor failures caused by equipment overheating.

Since then we've had some real successes and some minor failures.

"You have a system where the consequence of what appear to be relatively minor failures quickly propagate into catastrophe," he said.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg pronounced the crisis over and said that the city's next job was to examine the minor failures that occurred in the response to the emergency.

Meanwhile, the minor failures of main-scale teachers would be aired in evening briefing, upon which each member would shake their heads and tut, obstinately refusing to remember the difficulty of full-time teaching.

A couple of minor failures of cadence – early on, and almost immediately recovered from – served only to remind the listener that all this was new to Black, and that she was good at it because it came naturally.

It represents a minor failure.

If carried out correctly an inemuri is an honourable kind of minor failure, like having no time to eat lunch, or 200 unanswered emails.

"Some people take pride in being bitten; I actually think it's a minor failure because if the dog is in a position where it feels it can bite you, you're not quite reading the situation correctly".

Middlebrow is a harsh judgment: her stories of disillusion, personal betrayal, minor failure, and loneliness declining into death are too uncomfortable to have had a wide readership, but though their scope is narrow, beneath an immaculate mirror surface there are great depths.

Failure categories suitable for use in railway applications have been classified into three classes: immobilising failure, service failure and minor failure.