failure - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • suffer: The gearbox suffered the failure of a bolt in its upper part.
  • admit: The Home Office has admitted a failure to protect Mr Danielson whilst he worked at the prison.
  • allege: Alleging failures in some of auto insurance ontario rate the isdn codec can before they can.
  • indicate: It may indicate a failure to declare the index to be an integer.

Converse of subject

  • hamper: The Government recognizes that progress toward sustainable development has in the past been hampered by failure to take proper account of the environmental elements.

Adjective modifier

  • renal: The kidneys are badly injured which can lead to chronic renal failure.
  • congestive: Two days after the third course started, she suffered from dyspnea caused by congestive heart failure.
  • catastrophic: Lower bound solutions are obtained for the maximum thermal shock that the plate can sustain without catastrophic failure according to two distinct criteria.
  • chronic: The kidneys are badly injured which can lead to chronic renal failure.
  • respiratory: Nitric oxide in respiratory failure in the newborn infant.
  • cardiac: Typically it presents as cyanosis, shock, cardiac failure or a murmur on routine check.

Modifies a noun

  • mode: The failure modes of smart sensors suggest that smart sensors might be more susceptible to common cause failure than conventional ones.
  • rate: With perfect use, failure rates are in the region of 6 per hundred women years.

Noun used with modifier

  • kidney: Digger had been battling kidney failure for some months.
  • heart: Risk factors are: heart failure, diabetes, high blood pressure, a previous history of blood clots.
  • liver: They still don't know what caused her cirrhosis and the eventual liver failure.
  • hardware: The company sought to implement IT systems that would be immune to the potentially devastating consequences of hardware failure.
  • organ: His head swelled up like a balloon and he suffered multiple organ failure ' .
  • crop: They are better able to meet basic needs and to deal with sudden expenses that arise, for example from illness or crop failure.

Preposition: of

  • imagination: I attribute it to a childlike ego and a failure of imagination.

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