Collocations withfailure
These are words often used in combination withfailure.
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abysmal failure
The scheme was an abysmal failure even while forced labour was tolerated.
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academic failure
Structural relations model of self-rejection, disposition to deviance, and academic failure.
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admission of failure
Assistance from social services and voluntary organisations is tantamount to an admission of failure and a signal to those being cared for that they have become a burden.
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alleged failure
Investment and the alleged failure of investment has been discussed.
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apparent failure
One shortcoming of this work is the author's apparent failure to consult primary sources, including archival documents.
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autonomic failure
Patients suffering from progressive autonomic failure with primary degeneration of autonomic neurons show a characteristic inability to contract the distal urethral sphincter.
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brittle failure
However, at the low temperatures of space, brittle failure is more likely to occur.
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catastrophic failure
We all understand why it was such a catastrophic failure.
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collective failure
There, again, that may be called a collective failure, but it was a dismal failure, just the same.
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colossal failure
That has been the colossal failure.
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complete failure
This complete failure of incorporation was taken to indicate cell death.
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continued failure
But we have also seen continued failure to meet the objectives inherent in the 1978 principles.
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crop failure
The production climatic environment is mostly optimal, and total crop failure has not been reported so far.
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dismal failure
The operation was a ' dismal failure ' (p. 135).
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engine failure
Visits by sea often failed because of changeable weather and surf, engine failure, or leaky boats.
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equipment failure
The data from one participant were excluded because of equipment failure.
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eventual failure
That is a strategy usually doomed to eventual failure, and it could potentially be a recipe for catastrophe.
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failure mechanism
The primary failure mechanism is found to be unsteadiness in the induction zone arising from the deceleration of the wave front.
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failure mode
Once these questions are properly answered, a list of symptoms or methods of detection of each failure mode is formulated for safe operation.
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failure of diplomacy
That is the very essence of the failure of diplomacy.
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failure of imagination
At present, there is a complete failure of imagination.
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failure of leadership
He has not been willing to confront them and take them on, and that is a failure of leadership.
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failure rate
This study considers two types of failure rates: first-method (first-segment) failure rate, and all-method failure rate.
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fear of failure
It was important to remove the fear of failure and to be patient with new researchers.
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greatest failure
This is the greatest failure of all.
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hardware failure
An example of a primary problem is the file server detecting a hardware failure resulting in the loss of files.
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hepatic failure
The massive necrosis finally leads to fulminant hepatic failure (fig002glt).
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kidney failure
It is associated with serious complications, including cardiovascular disease, diabetic neuropathy, diabetic foot disease, diabetic retinopathy and kidney failure.
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likelihood of failure
The injectables maintained a low likelihood of failure regardless of the duration of use.
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liver failure
The cause of death was liver failure in the remaining patients.
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lung failure
Chronic inflammation leads to lung failure.
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massive failure
That, too, is a massive failure.
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mechanical failure
Finally, another factor to consider when interpreting the mechanical failure of meteorites is the loading rate.
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miserable failure
It was a miserable failure.
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moral failure
But you will not consider me guilty of a moral failure.
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organ failure
The survivors had only one organ failure beside the lung.
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outright failure
If a combinator parser is applied to an input string containing an error, the result will often be outright failure to parse the input.
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ovarian failure
Ovarian failure is of course associated with certain psychological and vasomotor symptoms.
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perceived failure
After the war, this memory of the perceived failure of the forums remained.
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persistent failure
An equally important factor was the persistent failure of the federal government to check the activities of the vigilantes or their political patrons.
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possibility of failure
There is, of course, the possibility of failure along the path currently being explored.
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potential failure
Everyone is nervous about tie potential failure of summit conferences.
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premature failure
Premature failure has already become relatively rare.
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probability of failure
He presents a technique where clans are formed as part of a self-interested activity to increase local utility or decrease the probability of failure.
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reciprocity failure
Reciprocity failure generally becomes significant at exposures of longer than about 1 sec for film, and above 30 sec for paper.
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relative failure
A relative failure to attend to semantic organization may result in deficits in learning and memory.
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repeated failure
When repeated failure of rule-based reasoning occurs, the practitioner will move to the knowledge-based level of decisionmaking.
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respiratory failure
We did not observe a death related to respiratory failure.
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risk of failure
The risk of failure is too great.
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structural failure
The joint can fail either because of actuator failure, structural failure, or failure of one of the hinges.
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systematic failure
Only systematic failure to produce good consequences will show that a trait is not a virtue at all, or that it is a vice.
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systemic failure
This episode and the systemic failure that it represents is an important metaphor for wider systemic failure.
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total failure
It was a total failure.
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ultimate failure
But the ultimate failure of middle-class hegemony cannot be explained by isolated examples of disorderly conduct in the libraries.
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utter failure
It was an utter failure!
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widespread failure
The widespread failure to do so explains why most of the 16 presidents (elected between 1982 and 1995) who reversed themselves by embracing neoliberalism were politically unsuccessful.
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