failure
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The judge said the failure to secure and take account of the correct risk assessment was unlawful.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
The board will apparently act as a sort of ombudsman that will arbitrate disputes between employees and management regarding “alleged reporting bias or failure to meet agreed reporting fairness standards.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
People with higher inflammation tended to have thicker heart walls, smaller heart chambers and poorer heart filling - all changes which may develop quietly for years before progressing to heart failure.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
Nats says the latest failure at Prestwick was different - Prestwick in Ayrshire looks after traffic across northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, catering for about 42% of the UK's air traffic.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
When Joey Guerrero dies of heart failure on June 18, none of the people in her life know anything about her past.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Easyjet said the latest incident "calls into question the resilience of Nats' systems and demonstrates the need for firm actions to prevent these repeated failures."
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Some of the women tell us they have had formal apologies from the trust, but all say that, more than anything, they want answers as to who was responsible for the failures in their care.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
There have been some failures of highly anticipated readouts in 2026, but these were offset by other positive results, highlighting the importance of having a diverse portfolio, they add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The report was heavily criticized for failing to assign blame or identify specific evacuation failures, but officials have said that wasn’t the goal of the McChrystal Group review.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
The advantage of only having to feed themselves, and not having to support five extravagant human beings as well, was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 6
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