(1) When faced with a prickly parent or colleague, many of us have a tendency to turn tongue-tied, so arm yourself with some failsafe phrases to keep you cool and in control.
(2) Whether this failsafe mechanism is actually used under physiological conditions is a different question.
(3) Advantages of the WVSC unit are 1) quiet sound of running water rather than harsh sound of electric pump, 2) requirement of only a standard waterhead making method available to impoverished areas where electricity may be precious, 3) failsafe, unidirectional suction, 4) easy storage, transport, and assemblage, and 5) lack of need for safety pop-off valve because of intrinsic lag time from close of system to development of maximum suction.
(4) Preventive and control measures are eliminating the gross abuses, tracing and banning hazardous exposures to toxic agents, eliminating risks of injuries and ergonomic strain, providing health services for working children through the primary health care network, and developing international failsafe design standards for tools and work systems, if these children must work.
(5) The plane’s electrical generators fall into a failsafe mode if kept continuously powered on for 248 days.
(6) Successful marketing relies on the notion that a failsafe process can be applied to anything to make it sell better – from personal reputations to cashmere onesies.
(7) That is not a tax regime you would want to maintain for the long-term, but as a short-term measure it is failsafe.
(8) They've gone for a high-cost failsafe mission which is long in the planning; but I believe they should be doing smaller, faster, cheaper projects – those which require a limited number of people but can be quickly completed, and through which they can learn a lot, even if the mission "fails" – although I believe there's no such thing as failure if you learn something.
(9) In conjunction with a feedback pH control system, these powder feeders provided for (a) a faster batching process, (b) a tight control of solution pH during batching, (c) a failsafe system to prevent operator error and equipment malfunction.
(10) Allowing Mr Tamayo’s fate to be decided by a board that has refused to provide meaningful consideration of evidence that Mr Tamayo has mental retardation and that his trial was fundamentally unfair as a result of the violation of his consular rights, is an affront to what clemency is supposed to be, a 'failsafe' in our justice system.
(11) While TCS was not responsible for this issue, our staff have worked alongside BA and their partners to restore services as quickly as possible.” The power shutdown knocked out the airline’s computer systems, but experts have questioned why any company would not have a functioning uninterruptible power supply and failsafe backups.
(12) These results suggest that the surface IgD may act as a failsafe receptor to prevent tolerance induction in adult B cells.
(13) These results suggest that various central and peripheral mechanisms which are involved in the regulation of appetite may function independently as a 'failsafe' system.
(14) It would then take an operator or technician to override that failsafe.
(15) Both scenarios should trigger a failsafe that causes the entire ride to shut down, he said.
(16) A working group of the sport’s governing body, the FIA, investigated the accident and found that as Bianchi went off track into the run-off area, he “applied both throttle and brake together, using both feet” and thus over-riding the failsafe mechanism.
(17) With markets booming, the banks' supposedly failsafe models showed that catastrophic losses were out of the question.
(18) The salient features of the design are: failsafe operation, excellent reliability, minimal maintenance and simplicity, due to the use of modular and TTL circuitry.
(19) Other failsafe high-brow options include the botched Jesus fresco, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and Cher from Clueless .
(20) He told the BBC that: "Foreign takeovers can often be hugely helpful but every other advanced economy has mechanisms of some sort on a failsafe basis to scrutinise foreign takeovers.
Infallible
Definition:
(a.) Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable.
(a.) Not liable to fail, deceive, or disappoint; indubitable; sure; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible success; an infallible remedy.
(a.) Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under Infallibility.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a waspish summary in which he noted that, while Pope Francis "may have renounced his own infallibility", Margaret Thatcher never did.
(2) I asked if that would not make life easier, since it removed any issue of the author's infallibility?
(3) And yet many newspapers do persist in pretending they are largely infallible."
(4) The bleeding time is not an infallible indication of aspirin or other non steroidal antiinflammatory drugs platelet defect.
(5) Although these criteria are helpful in most instances, they are not infallible.
(6) Countless Americans believe in a purity and infallibility of our right to bear arms, and therefore are quick to find fault with those who misuse the right.
(7) However, these physiologic measurements are not infallible; their accuracy is largely dependent on the careful set-up and use of the measuring instruments.
(8) Testing hearing in baby clinics was easy to implement and economical but not infallible.
(9) The electrocardiogram was invaluable, though by no means infallible.
(10) Current imaging techniques are not infallible and cannot confer an absolute sense of security when seeming to indicate a nonextruded protruding disk.
(11) The results suggest that, although far from infallible, CA 125 is a useful marker for ovarian cancer.
(12) People have come to believe that doctors should never make mistakes and courts have reinforced this absurd requirement of infallibility by punishing breaches with settlements way out of proportion to actual damages".
(13) We conclude that a long acting glucocorticoid is useful in the management of menstrual abnormalities in adolescent patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia who have attained their adult height, and that monitoring the concentration of serum T in them is a valuable but not infallible procedure for assessing the effectiveness of therapy.
(14) He continued to write about art, but related it more closely to his personal experience, and though he never ceased to believe in the perfectibility of society, he edged towards an understanding of Marxism as an analytical tool rather than an infallible cure for the ills of the world.
(15) And yet many newspapers do persist in pretending they are largely infallible.
(16) He has a vast and devoted following of people who do not question his infallibility.
(17) Our knowledge of the wrist is incomplete, and our diagnostic tools are not infallible, but we must continue to try to sort out these difficult wrist problems.
(18) Although there is no infallible method of avoiding interpretive errors it is suggested that the development of good viewing habits, including an orderly and systematic appraisal of each film, coupled with a physiologically oriented approach to film interpretation will reduce mistakes significantly.
(19) Even then, it was obvious that Facetti had a prodigious knowledge of art history and an infallible instinct for the way a single image might capture the essence of a book.
(20) The first is that King and Trichet, eminent though they may be, are not infallible.