Sentence examples for surprising failure from inspiring English sources

Al Gore's surprising failure there in 2000 was an overlooked factor in his narrow Electoral College loss, and a harbinger of the future.

In some ways, it's a more surprising failure, because of Zemeckis's formidable track record, and a $35m outlay that should have been relatively easy for The Walk to make good on.

Schoen recommended Paul Ohm's Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization, a comprehensive legal history of the idea of anonymisation in regulation published in a 2010 edition of the UCLA Law Review.

In the surprising failure of a bill early last year to extend provisions of the Patriot Act, 18 (or 69 percent) of the Republicans who rejected the measure were committee members and only 9 (35 percent) were freshmen.

After a surprising failure to win outright four weeks earlier he thrashed Geraldo Alckmin, his centre-right opponent, in the run-off ballot by 61% to 39% of the valid votes and with 5.5m more votes than in 2002.

Davidson begins by describing an experiment the psychologist Daniel Simons and I conducted that illustrated what she calls "attention blindness," the surprising failure to notice salient events when our attention is directed to other events — even ones happening in the same place.

Even setting such distortions aside, social scientific studies reveal surprising failures of deliberating groups, such as cascades and group polarization (Sunstein 2006).

The behavior itself should not be too surprising, the failure of almost any major Republican leaders to speak out against this behavior, may not be surprising, but is certainly noteworthy.

This is not surprising as failure of MTX treatment is an eligibility criterion for treatment with biologic agents.

It is therefore perhaps not surprising that failure on BRAF inhibitor therapy also confers resistance to MEK inhibition, with minimal clinical activity being seen to trametinib in patients failing dabrafenib and a 15% response rate (median PFS 2.8 months) observed in patients failing BRAF inhibitor following treatment with vemurafenib+cobimetinib (Ribas et al, 2014).

The first thing to realise is that there's nothing remotely shameful or surprising about "failures" of recall.