The Bridgestone Corporation, whose Bridgestone/Firestone unit has been plagued by failures and recalls of millions of tires for sport utility vehicles, said yesterday that it had voluntarily begun a recall of yet another small batch of similar tires.
Instead of these technologies — plagued by failures around the world — these development funds should have been investing in education and diffusion programs for recycling and composting with the incorporation of recyclers who, left to their fate, today are buried under the waste the city tried to hide.
As the President and his aides have consistently noted, this campaign is not likely to end with a quick, surgical success — the lingering fantasy of the Gulf War — but will instead be prolonged, complicated, often hidden, and at times, perhaps, plagued by failure and loss.
Research into treatments for Alzheimer's disease has been plagued by failure.
The launch marks a success in an area of defense plagued by failure.
4) Plagued by failure and a long winter before entering Asia, the combined armies of The Fourth Crusade end short of their destination when, desperate for provisions, Boniface of Montferrat is persuaded by his Venetian sponsor, Doge Dandolo, to sack the Byzantine cities of Zara and Constantinople for its treasures.
Attempting to regain the political momentum after a calamitous two months in which his healthcare reforms were plagued by website failures, the president said reversing the growing gap between rich and poor was "the defining challenge of our time".
But just as nets are vulnerable to holes and wily mosquitoes, so, too, have our efforts to treat malaria been plagued by gaps, failures and the extraordinary cleverness of the pathogen itself.
Officials said the new assessment by federal regulators could halt or scale back Shell's program to open Alaska's Arctic waters to oil exploration, a $4.5 billion effort that has been plagued by equipment failures, legal delays, mismanagement and bad weather.
The first of its new Borey-class nuclear submarines launched last year is useless because its planned intercontinental ballistic missile, the Bulava, designed to outwit anti-missile defences, has been plagued by test failures (Western officials say it has problems with its range too).Outside experts estimate that one-third of defence spending is embezzled or otherwise mis-spent.
The Department of Justice concluded earlier this year that the department's internal affairs bureau failed to hold police officers accountable and had been "plagued by systemic failures" for years.
