Sentence examples for swift failure from inspiring English sources

The majority of change after Hack Day was really in ensuring the right people were on the whitelist, ensuring swift failure when Twitter fell over badly (in the run-up to Edinburgh) and on user interface clean-up.

Can the Raptors carry that performance over now, even as the expectation shifts from success in the first two rounds to swift failure in the conference final against the Cavaliers?

Accurately predicting the swift failure of a handset — as we did to a T with the Kin — is bittersweet.

The SWIFT identified 'Failure to insert or incorrect insertion of dose and duration [in the record]' and 'Failure to record reason [for dose changes]', while the HFMEA identified 'Incorrect documentation', 'Incomplete documentation' and 'Failure to document'.

At higher stresses, the entire composite was subjected to larger deformation and faster damage accumulation, resulting in a swift fatigue failure.

"He could say, 'I got in this race to unify the Democratic Party, and I did.' " While some of Mr. McGreevey's supporters gloated at Mr. Torricelli's swift and humbling failure, even the senator's detractors predicted that his political skill and ambition would enable him to rebound.

Companies like Lehman and, earlier, Bear Stearns saw going public as an excuse to take on more risk and act more recklessly, when in fact becoming a public company makes caution more important, since the margin for error is smaller, and the punishment for failure swifter.

The move is an unusually swift reaction to the failure of industry and regulators to recognize a problem with Firestone tires on Ford Explorers.

The move is an unusually swift reaction to the failure of industry and regulators to recognize a problem with Bridgestone/Firestone tires on Ford Explorers until more than 100 people had been killed.

The transition from a reservation culture to a competitive academic environment is often difficult, and if a student is unprepared for the transition, failure is swift and certain.

To compare the effectiveness of the stability and workload index for transfer score (SWIFT), the sequential organ failure assessment score (SOFA) and simplified therapeutic intervention scoring system (TISS-28) in predicting unplanned ICU readmission or unexpected death in the first 48 hours after discharge from the ICU.