Sentence examples for momentary failure from inspiring English sources

Even then, Bryant possessed a confidence and dynamism that would carry him through any momentary failure.

First I was supposed to load on enough weight so that at the end of each set I would reach "momentary failure," a phenomenon in which willpower means nothing because your muscles cease to function.

Someone should have told you that you were more than your worst mistake, so that you weren't still imprisoned there in the spot of that momentary failure so long after it; still stuck trying to undo something that could never be undone and believing it made you less than.

The generator experiences momentary failures, plunging the city into abject darkness (electricity provides the only source of light).

Instead, Amazon said that its backup gear mistakenly shut down part of the data center after what Dominion Virginia Power said was a short on an electrical pole that set off two momentary failures.

Momentary failures to perceive and respond appropriately to the environment reflect "hiccups" in monitoring and behavioral control that range from mildly annoying (not seeing your glasses on your desk) to potentially dangerous (not seeing a bicyclist while driving a car).

After the revelations from whistleblower Edward Snowden, Clapper eventually apologized to the Senate panel, citing a momentary memory failure – although he initially said he gave the "least untruthful" answer he could publicly provide.

Although pilot error was clearly the main factor, bad weather and momentary instrument failure contributed to the panic.

They are used, for example, in digital circuits so that information stored in large computer memories is not lost during a momentary electric power failure; the electric energy stored in such capacitors maintains the information during the temporary loss of power.

Over time, that will prove to be a far more serious failure than momentary incompetence.

Wave-induced seabed instability, either momentary liquefaction or shear failure, is an important topic in ocean and coastal engineering.