Sentence examples for partial flop from inspiring English sources
Here he is promoting his new film, and he's openly discussing his strategy for making it a partial flop, rather than a complete one.
But that "unpublished op-ed piece" that just surfaced, pushing back the date to June of Lieberman's flip-flop on partial privatization of Social Security, was too clever by half.
He has the partial dark mohawk haircut of a rebellious teen, but it flops over the bright face of a kid.
In particular, a straight-forward implementation of the computations of the determinants in steps (3)–(4), via e.g. the LU factorization (with partial pivoting), renders a total cost of 2m p 4 / 3 flops, which results from having to compute mp factorizations of p × p matrices, with a cost of 2p 3 / 3 flops per LU factorization.
By taking partial ownership of a lot more companies than it could buy outright, G.E. is enhancing chances for a breakout hit and reducing the damage of an outright flop.
