Sentence examples for precisely failed from inspiring English sources

In May, a component of the spacecraft designed to keep it pointing precisely failed, dealing a crushing blow to Marcy and his colleagues who last year convinced NASA to extend funding for the mission into 2016, which Marcy says would have allowed researchers to further refine the number of known Earthlike planets in our galactic neighborhood.

If Microsoft cedes ground to Amazon, or more precisely fails to grow its share of this market, it could harm its ability to promote its own software products, not to mention see a key new revenue source stagnate.

A budget bill which would have done precisely that just failed in a cloture vote with the rather surprising margin of 47 to 52.

Just how many of the new cases involved the combination of Explorers and Firestone tires may never be known, because the federal accident database does not specify the brand of tires used or precisely what failed.

Overfitting can result when a statistical model has many more parameters than the number of training data points, so that it can fit the training data very precisely but fail to generalize to new data (Hastie et al., 2001).

Perhaps, but as Lowenstein observed of LTCM: 'They failed precisely at moments of unexpected turbulence - when they were needed most'.

Romney is not starting year seven of his presidency, precisely because he failed to attract these voters in 2012.

'Work, work, work, work!' Which is precisely what he failed to do for much of the fight.

John Terry's injunction failed precisely because the judge thought he was protecting his commercial interests rather than his privacy.

But this is still not quite right: the closer who fails has a chance to redeem himself early and often, doing well tomorrow precisely what he failed to do today.

Ironically, the Honduran mission failed precisely because the agency that was supposed to ensure transparency refused to allow outsiders to audit agreements made between the government and private firms.