Sentence examples for qualified failure from inspiring English sources

Mr. Obama is already faced with the reality that voters have, fairly or not, decided that his first big effort to revive the economy, the roughly $800 billion package enacted right after he took office, was a qualified failure, and that anything tagged as further "stimulus" will be cast by Republicans as throwing good money after bad.

In fact, early radio was seen as a qualified failure — big corporations like AT&T viewed Marconi's wireless telegraph as a deeply flawed way to send private messages from person to person.

Altruism makes wonderful private policy, but as public policy it is a qualified failure.

I do not think such reconciliation is possible and again conclude, as I did seven years ago, that our decades of war against cancer have been a qualified failure".

When the pre-established cut-off point for potential term inclusion in the heart failure filter was applied, two MeSH terms and seven textwords qualified: Heart failure and Ventricular dysfunction, Left (MeSH terms); and heart failure, CHF, congestive heart failure, left ventricular ejection fraction, chronic heart failure, New York Heart Association, and cardiomyopathy (textwords).

At best, India has been a qualified political success and a barely qualified economic failure.Indian leaders believed in 1947 that colonial exploitation had kept the country poor, and that when the British went, so would poverty.

Keshi replaces Samson Siasia, who was sacked last Friday after his 2012 Nations Cup qualifying failure.

In a resignation letter, Eguavoen cited the qualifying failure for the London Games as his reason to quit.

In contributing to a new book on coaching , Houllier, 64, again refers to the 1993 qualifying failure - and Ginola alleges that disparaging remarks and an offensive term in the publication have left him with little choice but to pursue legal action.

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is used to examine the fracture surfaces of fatigue specimens to qualify the failure mechanism, crack initiation sites, and defects such as porosity.

The self-reported ability to identify and qualify organ failure and hemodynamics improved significantly, i.e. the ability to calculate the mean arterial pressure increased from 2.9 ± 1.1 to 4.3 ± 0.9 (P < 0.001).