The phrase "spell failure" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used in a figurative sense, to refer to a situation in which an attempted endeavor or task fails. For example: "The company's expansion plans proved to be a spell failure."
In cases where the smallest obstacle could spell failure, Neighbor's Keeper has been on hand with bus passes, phone cards or school uniforms.
Put another way, what are the emotions that cause people to reason against established facts, to feel that the small market share that allowed the Mac to prosper at the higher end will inevitably spell failure for iDevices?
Although the school has a demographic profile that is supposed to spell failure, it has been singled out by the state and city educational leadership for its students' excellent performance.
An incorrect middle initial on your records most likely isn't going to spell failure for any of your credit applications.
But shares of the phone companies that buy that equipment have spelled failure so far this year.
And it spells failure for opponents of the international agreement who sought to foil it by turning Congress against it.
The lesson from across Europe is there are no political prizes for embracing austerity – it spells failure in opposition and disintegration in government.
The defeat in London was not the Livingstone effect, it was the same reaction to New Labour that also spelt failure in Crewe.
The daughter of protective North African parents in the tough northeastern suburb of Bondy, Ms. Yazidi is enrolled in a trial program aimed at helping smart children of the poor overcome the huge cultural disadvantages that have often spelled failure in the crucial school entrance exams.
In contrast to the conventional wisdom that fifty-fifty ownership spells failure because of stalled decision making, alliances with an even split of financial ownership are actually more likely to succeed than those in which one partner holds a majority interest (see the exhibit "Fifty-Fifty Alliances Are More Likely to Succeed").
Preparedness ensures success and lack of preparedness spells failure.
