Sentence examples for seed failure from inspiring English sources

There may be more noticeable dispersal due to seed failure or high reproductive success in some years, and this species has occurred as a vagrant to Vancouver Island, Santa Cruz Island, and Bermuda.

Sagebrush restoration success is inconsistent, with a high rate of seeding failures, particularly at lower elevations.

However, because many other factors (such as insect abundance during the breeding season) can affect population density in any given year, not all species will be affected synchronously by a seed crop failure that leads to irruptions of some species.

Success can contain the seeds of failure.

But that post, too, carried the seeds of failure.

But to Republican critics of that approach — and some architects of the Iraq surge — the announcement sows the seeds of failure before the process begins.

In the gap between what is known and what is suspected, error and bias can creep in, sowing the seeds of failure.

Analysis by ornithologists Carl Bock and Larry Lepthien of many years of Audubon Christmas Counts indicate that a synchronization of seed crop failures in some high-latitude tree species leads to southward irruptions of species normally dependent on those seeds.

While established thinking is that coalitions should kick off by agreeing on key first principles, Massie argues this can immediately sow the seeds of failure by leading to a jockeying for position.

Arthur H. Gunther Blauvelt, N.Y., July 26, 2009 • To the Editor: Because we seem to be just charging ahead with plans to insure the uninsured, and in the long run to provide single-payer, government-run health care, the seeds of failure are already planted.

But with economic success came the seeds of failure.