It also is sometimes used as a euphemism for the practice of inbreeding, a practice that is generally frowned upon by horse breeders, though used by some in an attempt to fix certain traits.

Any attempt to fix observed errors tends to result in the introduction of other errors.

Inbreeding is used by breeders of domestic animals to fix desirable genetic traits within a population or to attempt to remove deleterious traits by allowing them to manifest phenotypically from the genotypes.

The Africans agree to help Haddock sail the ship to neutral territory in Djibouti, while Tintin and Skut attempt to fix the radio, which had been smashed.

Economists such as Milton Friedman from the Chicago school and others from the Public Choice school, argue that market failure does not necessarily imply that government should attempt to solve market failures, because the costs of government failure might be worse than those of the market failure it attempts to fix.

British competition law prohibits almost any attempt to fix prices.

* The Shamrock: A Further attempt to fix its species, by Nathaniel Colgan, published in the Irish Naturalist 1893 on the From Ireland web site.

Based on Johann Buxtorf the Elder and Noldius ( Christian Nolde ), the concordance is arranged to serve the purposes of a Hebrew-English and English-Hebrew lexicon, and also attempt to fix the primitive meaning of Hebrew roots.

In an attempt to fix this, Chrysler tried repositioning Plymouth to its traditional spot as the automaker's entry-level brand.

The substance Rhoca-Gil was used to attempt fix the leakages, but failed to work properly.

The last attempt to fix the damages involved with the events of Back to the Future: The Game ends with even a more radical change, with Edna Strickland traveling under an assumed name to 1876 to act as a moral guide of the newly founded Hill Valley: however, after a failed confrontation with Beauregard Tannen, a Confederate soldier who built and founded the Palace Saloon, she accidentally causes a conflagration that consumes Hill Valley, turning it into a ghost town with herself as the only resident.

Each group compiled a system of pronunciation and grammatical guides in the form of diacritical notes on the external form of the Biblical text in an attempt to fix the pronunciation, paragraph and verse divisions and cantillation of the Jewish Bible, the Tanakh, for the worldwide Jewish community.

In other words, the title transferred was full and complete, with an attempt to reserve the right to fix the price at which subsequent sales could be made ... to call the sale a license to use is a mere play upon words.

In every new emergency, no one knows for sure which agency or combination thereof will become involved. In 2005 there was an attempt to fix the problem by giving sectoral responsibilities to different humanitarian agencies, most notably with the UNHCR taking on the responsibility for protection and the management of camps and emergency shelters.

IGN offered similar sentiments, admiring the attempt to both " breathe life into a series that was running out of steam " and fix the lopsided multiplayer aspect of Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 where Tails would always get lost off-screen, but disliked the actual clunky nature of the " rubber band " physics of the game's " buddy system ", and the lack of variation between acts of each world.

After only two months, Fall resigned as Prime Minister on April 30, saying that President Lansana Conté would not let him attempt to fix the economy.

Many see it as an attempt to fix a symptom rather than solving the real problem of e-mail spam, at the expense of causing problems for innocent users.

As originally agreed to between Cannell and then ABC executives Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner ( who would later form Carsey-Werner Productions ), the powers would be in the suit, not the guy ( though the suit would only work for him ) and Ralph would try to solve ordinary-type issues, such as trying to stop a fix in Major League Baseball (" The Two Hundred Miles-Per-Hour Fastball ") or an assassination attempt (" The Best Desk Scenario ").

The goal of system analysis is to determine where the problem is in an attempt to fix the system. This step involves breaking down the system in different pieces to analyze the situation, analyzing project goals, breaking down what needs to be created and attempting to engage users so that definite requirements can be defined.

The Goldwater – Nichols Act was an attempt to fix problems caused by inter-service rivalry, which had emerged during the Vietnam War, contributed to the catastrophic failure of the Iranian hostage rescue mission in 1980, and which were still evident in the invasion of Grenada in 1983.

* first-order change: changing the individuals in a setting to attempt to fix a problem

Thus, a gambling-motivated fix might not necessarily involve any direct attempt to influence the outright result, especially in team sports where such a fix would require the co-operation ( and prerequsitely, the knowledge ) of many people, and / or perhaps would be more likely to arouse suspicion.

In the north, Rommel had the Italian infantry divisions — supported by the Ramcke Brigade and the German 164th Infantry Division — conduct a frontal demonstration in an attempt to fix the British defenders in place while Rommel ′ s main attack cut through the southern sector and then turn north in a sharp left hook movement into Allied supply lines.

" The next year, it was clarified that any attempt to steal must be credited to the runner, and that fielders committing errors during this play must also be charged with an error.

There was clarification that a runner is credited with a steal if the attempt began before a battery error.

1904 saw an attempt to reduce the already wordy slew of rules governing stolen bases, with the stolen base now credited when "... the advances a base unaided by a base hit, a put out, ( or ) a fielding or batter error.

If the desired output values are often incorrect ( because of human error or sensor errors ), then the learning algorithm should not attempt to find a function that exactly matches the training examples.

An attempt to perform an operation on the wrong type of value raises an error.

A segmentation fault ( often shortened to segfault ), bus error or access violation is generally an attempt to access memory that the CPU cannot physically address.

Addressing, data, or operation exception errors caused the system state to be entered through a controlled routine allowing the operating system to attempt to correct or terminate the program in error.

Human factors engineering is often applied to designs in an attempt to minimize this type of error by making systems more forgiving or error-tolerant.

The Council's letter of confirmation clearly states: " We anathematize the inventors of the new error, that is, Theodore, Sergius, ... and also Honorius, who did not attempt to sanctify this Apostolic Church with the teaching of Apostolic tradition, but by profane treachery permitted its purity to be polluted.

* The lifter may be given an additional attempt at the same weight at the head referee ’ s discretion if failure in an attempt was due to any error by one or more of the spotters.

Various bots add and attempt to correct interlanguage links: if A links to B, B will be linked to A, and if A links to B and B to C, A will be linked to C. The downside is that an error in an interlanguage link in one Wikipedia propagates to other Wikipedias.

A subsequent attempt to fire the main engine failed because of ground control error, and the engine never fired.

He began research under the supervision of Ernest William Barnes, who suggested that he attempt to prove the Riemann hypothesis: Littlewood showed that if the Riemann hypothesis is true then the Prime Number Theorem follows and obtained the error term.

A cover-up is an attempt, whether successful or not, to conceal evidence of wrongdoing, error, incompetence or other embarrassing information.

" Discrete error analysis and feedback were a common feature of traditional CALL, and the more sophisticated programs would attempt to analyse the learner's response, pinpoint errors, and branch to help and remedial activities.

A common error made by those who equate Gantt chart design with project design is that they attempt to define the project work breakdown structure at the same time that they define schedule activities.

The error message must not be cached under the page's URL ; until the browser is able to successfully load the page, whenever the user tries to load the page, the browser must make a new attempt.

An intrusion is an error that participants make when they attempt to recall a word based on a cue of that word pair.

* solution-oriented: trial and error makes no attempt to discover why a solution works, merely that it is a solution.

* problem-specific: trial and error makes no attempt to generalise a solution to other problems.

* non-optimal: trial and error is generally an attempt to find a solution, not all solutions, and not the best solution.

The incident was not directly attributed to skysurfing, but rather an error made during an attempt to film an " intentional cutaway " ( where a skydiver intentionally releases, and falls away from his primary parachute ).

Some applications attempt to recover from the error and continue execution instead of crashing.

If a catcher makes a " wild throw " in an attempt to prevent a stolen base and the runner is safe, the catcher is not charged with an error even if it could be argued that the runner would have been put out with " ordinary effort.