Sentence examples for statements of failure from inspiring English sources

Then, different statistical learning techniques are compared to develop surrogate models of bridge fragility using the FSI model in order to reduce the computational expense of developing fragility surfaces, or statements of failure probability conditioned on hazard intensity.

Note that this is not quite the same as one would have deduced for λ if one had considered the statement of the failure rate to have been an instantaneous one; the instantaneous rate assigns λ=0.1, but we consider that it is better to interpret the statement of failure under the given finite time and hence set λ accordingly.

However, several criteria for debarment appear to apply to Blackwater, including "commission of fraud," "theft," "falsification or destruction of records, making false statements," "a history of failure to perform, or of unsatisfactory performance of, one or more contracts," and "violations of the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988".

The current unrest across the region is mainly a statement of the failure of the social contract between government and the people.

This result is not a statement of the "failure" of BEST by any means; rather it is an acknowledgment that using data generated from a model that is not included in BEST can lead to poor results in any particular trial, even though the average performance is reasonable and expected.

The authors blame the Bush administration for the hos­tages' lengthy stay in the jungle: after 9/11, American officials "had turned the word 'negotiate' into a statement of weakness, a sign of failure," and refused to bargain for the men's release.

In this statement the occurrence of fear of failure is explicit formulated.

That could mean — if enough of the Democrats in Congress prove to be as spineless and thin-skinned and cowering and craven and without fire-in-their-belly and devoid of conviction as many of their early statements suggest — the failure of health-care reform.

In the 2010 edition the editors explain: "This book is a statement of intent and an admission of failure.

Today's Autumn Statement won't be an admission of failure, but lower OBR growth forecasts, acknowledgement that debt level targets will be missed and another hotch-potch of tax and spending measures will reflect the lack of progress.

But The Tennessean called it "a simplistic picture of two complex capital punishment cases" and a prominent GOP attorney in the state said Ramsey's presentation was "replete with misstatements of fact, incomplete statements of fact and a total failure to in any way represent the true picture of any of these things".