Sentence examples similar to minute failure from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday the interceptor completely missed the incoming missile it was supposed to destroy, apparently because of the last-minute failure of two heat-sensing devices.

It wasn't Philip's successes that people talked about: it was his last-minute failure.

At the heart of the last-minute failure was the fact that M23 was recently defeated militarily.

However, the connector was not opened to traffic until four days later due to a last-minute failure of the tunnel communications system.

In Iraq last year, the last-minute failure of officials to work out similar details, despite longstanding agreement on general principles, meant that the United States was forced to exit the country without leaving behind any substantial military presence.

Perinatal asphyxia (defined as three of more of the following five criteria: non-reassuring CTG patterns, umbilical cord arterial pH less than 7.10, Apgar score less than 5 at 5 minutes, failure of spontaneous breathing at 5 minutes, onset of multiple organ failure) The primary outcome is an association between MHC class II alleles and particular RBC antibodies.

In the presence of >2 contractions per 10 minutes, failure of cervical dilatation (<1 cm/h) or failure to progress during the active first (cervix dilatation >3 cm) and second stages of labour, management required initiation of intravenous oxytocin by infusion was started >6 h after the last dose of gel.

"It was devastating to let people down and not open after working on this for four years, but we'd no choice," says co-founder Dan Blackledge, the man behind Croatia's Unknown and Hideout festivals, who blames contractors for last-minute failures.