Failures meaning

But the failures were sporadic only.

Bank failures were numerous and commercial distress widespread.

The rate of progress was necessarily slow, apart from any liability to interruption by other undertakings and failures in bodily health.

So far acclimatizers note but few failures; the chief case is that of the salmon.

It is fair to assume that Grant would have followed other unsuccessful generals into retirement, had he not shown that, whatever his mistakes or failures, and whether he was or was not sober and temperate in his habits, he possessed the iron determination and energy which in the eyes of Lincoln and Stanton,' and of the whole Northern people, was the first requisite of their generals.