(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.
(superl.) Certain to find or retain; as, to be sure of game; to be sure of success; to be sure of life or health.
(superl.) Fit or worthy to be depended on; certain not to fail or disappoint expectation; unfailing; strong; permanent; enduring.
(superl.) Betrothed; engaged to marry.
(superl.) Free from danger; safe; secure.
(adv.) In a sure manner; safely; certainly.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
(2) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(3) To be sure, the demonstration of pulmonary aspiration with GRS had little influence on patient selection and response to therapy.
(4) If you want to become a summit celebrity be sure to strike a pose whenever you see the ENB photographer approaching.
(5) Surely Michael wasn't saying he agreed with what Blair is doing?
(6) To be sure, when Russia withdrew Cuba's only deterrent against ongoing US attack with a severe threat to proceed to direct invasion and quietly departed from the scene, the Cubans would be infuriated – as they were, understandably.
(7) What happened in the past was that if smugglers are sure that European boats are patrolling very close to the Libyan coast, then traffickers use this opportunity to advertise, and say to potential irregular migrants: ‘You will be sure to reach the European coast.
(8) But no one was sure, and in this information vacuum the virus reached nearby towns and crossed borders.
(9) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
(10) While visitors amble freely around the newly refurbished inside – the Pierhead is sure and steadfast in its role outside as the drastic red building, emblazoning the landscape of Cardiff Bay in all its regal beauty.
(11) The letters, seen by Guardian Money, state that the French-owned company is conducting a review of customer records to make sure all its information is up to date.
(12) "If I hadn't scored that goal, I might still have ended up playing in Italy [Platt went on to play for Bari, Juventus and Sampdoria] but, realistically, I'm sure it was the catalyst.
(13) Although it never really has a sense of fun and burns with ill-focused anger, The Paperboy represents a kind of triumph, surely, even if it's just in getting such high-profile actors to do such low-down deeds.
(14) Their brutality seems to have been fairly even-handed, or if it wasn't, the men surely suffered enough not to be presented as the winners of the atrocity.
(15) If figurative language is defined as involving intentional violation of conceptual boundaries in order to highlight some correspondence, one must be sure that children credited with that competence have (1) the metacognitive and metalinguistic abilities to understand at least some of the implications of such language (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Nelson, 1974; Nelson & Nelson, 1978), (2) a conceptual organization that entails the purportedly violated conceptual boundaries (Lange, 1978), and (3) some notion of metaphoric tension as well as ground.
(16) Doreen Lawrence to speak at conference on police spying, corruption and racism Read more Mick Creedon, the Derbyshire Chief Constable who is leading the police’s internal investigation into the SDS, said the public inquiry “will help us with the work that is already underway to make sure that the unacceptable behaviour of some officers in the past never happens again”.
(17) According to his blog, he's been acting on the advice of a friend and pursuing a course of "silence, exile and cunning", but I'm not sure a couple of years of not giving interviews to Heat qualifies.
(18) Asked by Marr if he knew if Ashcroft paid tax in this country, Hague said:" I'm sure he fulfils the obligations that were imposed on him at the time he became …" Marr: "Have you asked him?"
(19) Financial experts aren't immediately sure what to make of the report, but one theory is that the figure includes the 'profits' the European Central Bank has made by buying Greek debt at distressed levels since the crisis began: econhedge (@econhedge) suggestion that this is planned EUR31.5b+ECB profits.
(20) This is a very nice drug and I’m sure Merck are feeling very pleased with themselves.” Matt Kennedy, who led the trial at Merck, said: “Today there are very limited therapeutic options available for people with Alzheimer’s disease, and those that exist provide only short-term improvement to the cognitive and functional symptoms.