Sentence examples for near failure from inspiring English sources

Fears began to grow for Lehman in March, after the near failure of Bear Stearns.

Such minor degradation or near failure may go unnoticed for a while and then hit unexpectedly.

Near failure, Mr. Gillette received help from an investor who allowed his vision to thrive but cost him control.

News of the fund's near failure shocked stock markets and made lenders leery of other hedge funds.

You have to remember that there are over 5,300 drinking water facilities throughout the U.S. that are at or near failure, and I mean failure.

He blamed "the very near failure of the Iraqi occupation" on Iranian interference, misplaced assumptions and a lack of US troops.

The near-failure of the euro has made Judt's world seem more remote than ever.

She survived near-failure of her kidneys, then her lungs, damaged by continuous high-pressure oxygen, began collapsing.

Now the near-failure of that family-owned bank is threatening to make him a political non-entity again.

It is likely that no other society has ever been so completely saturated by pyramid schemes that the state is brought to a point of near-failure.

We created a system such that even if the direct cost of bank rescue was zero, the impact of their near-failure on the economy was vast".