Sentence examples for only when they fail from inspiring English sources

Which funds are systemically important becomes clear only when they fail.

It's only when they fail at their intended task that they truly succeed.

To that end, they say, they do not make their records public, and alert the drug agency to problem clinics only when they fail two film reviews.

When transformers and other equipment are installed, they are expected to work for about 40 years, replaced only when they fail.

The most important lesson I learned through Latin that Mr. Mount did not mention: that glorious civilizations fall only when they fail to uphold the ethical values upon which they were built.

The ruler is to hold his officials strictly to the definitions of their role responsibilities, so that they are punished not only when they fail to perform some of those assigned responsibilities but also when they do more than their assigned responsibilities.

It was only when they failed to arrive at their destination, the National Audit Office NAOO), Parliament's spending watchdog, that the security breach came to light.

Thus, women tried traditional medical practitioners first and it is only when they failed to conceive that they searched for the appropriate medical clinics.

Since the wild-card format started in 1995, the Yankees have appeared in the division series in 15 out of 16 seasons, missing only once, when they failed to make the playoffs in 2008, Joe Girardi's first year as manager.

Experts say that gun laws work as intended every day, but only receive attention when they fail.

As is the case with our intelligence services -- and the air we breathe -- the commons only draw attention when they fail, or become scarce.