* 1967 – Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open.

A safe course for the official scorer to follow is to score a hit when exceptionally good fielding of a ball fails to result in a putout.

However, research in communication has shown that confusion can lend legitimacy to research when persuasion fails.

This is a protective mechanism for the heart, to compensate for an SA node that is no longer handling the pacemaking activity, and is one of a series of backup sites that can take over pacemaker function when the SA node fails to do so.

A blood feud or vendetta occurs when arbitration between families or tribes fails or an arbitration system is non-existent.

Constructive contempt, also called consequential contempt is when a person fails to fulfill the will of the court as it applies to outside obligations of the person.

In Hollywood movie Transformers when the Defense Purpose electronic communication fails ( mainly due to interference of the villain entities ) an officer tries to place a call back home through commercial network, but fails to get through the typical Indian call center, mainly due to the over-zealous salesmanship of the Indian operator who is more interested in advertising their new package than putting the call through.

Deprogramming, especially when it fails, entails considerable legal and psychological risk ( for example, a permanent alienation of the cultist from his or her family ).

Exact mechanisms are unclear, but it often fails in areas where populations are culturally segregated, as when the U. S. Indian school service failed to suppress Lakota and Navaho, or when a culture has widely respected autonomous cultural institutions, as when the Spanish failed to suppress Catalan.

Although success rates are not usually equal to that of epilepsy surgery, it is a reasonable alternative when the patient is reluctant to proceed with any required invasive monitoring, when appropriate presurgical evaluation fails to uncover the location of epileptic foci, or when there are multiple epileptic foci.

* 2000 – Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails.

The player becomes more likely to lose in a set number of iterations as he fails to win, and eventually his probability of winning will again equal the probability of winning a single toss, when only one toss is left: 6. 25 % in this instance.

* Hypoxia when the blood fails to deliver oxygen to target tissues.

In lid-lag ( von Graefe's sign ), when the patient tracks an object downward with their eyes, the eyelid fails to follow the downward moving iris, and the same type of upper globe exposure which is seen with lid retraction occurs, temporarily.

In the example above the goal is to read the entire file ; the read command continues to succeed while there is more information to be read, and fails when there isn't.

Superman and Batman embark on a mission to rid Earth of kryptonite, a mission that almost fails when the cornered Lana Lang, attempting to protect LexCorp investments, launches a large number of dirty kryptonite warheads, tainting the whole Earth atmosphere.

Micro-Planner had a construct, called " thnot ", which when applied to an expression returns the value true if ( and only if ) the evaluation of the expression fails.

Home is resettled quickly though, since another ramjet with colonists is already on its way when the colony " fails ".

Luthor's plot ultimately fails when Supernova is able to minimize the disaster with a spectacular rescue.

A field, practice, or body of knowledge can reasonably be called pseudoscientific when it is presented as consistent with the norms of scientific research, but it demonstrably fails to meet these norms.

In spending several chapters lamenting the state of the arts in America he fails to envision the literary Renaissance that would shortly arrive in the form of such major writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman.

Since it is not far from Viareggio, he will visit Puccini's house, as he never fails to do, to pay his respects to the memory of the composer of La Boheme, which he considers one of Puccini's masterpieces.

According to one definition of asymmetric, anything that fails to be symmetric is asymmetric.

The main rare risks are counterparty risk and liquidity risk – that a counterparty to a large transaction or many transactions fails to pay, or that one is required to post margin and does not have the money to do so.

Nineveh repented, but Jesus ' generation, which has seen and heard one even greater than Jonah, fails to repent.

Additionally, this hypothesis fails to explain the find of multiple examples of individuals with these same characteristics, indicating they were common to a large population, and not limited to one individual.

Because the four color theorem is true, this is always possible ; however, because the person drawing the map is focused on the one large region, he fails to notice that the remaining regions can in fact be colored with three colors.

However, one objection is that it fails to explain why female giraffes also have long necks.

They argue such an analogy fails because physical property is generally rivalrous while intellectual works are non-rivalrous ( that is, if one makes a copy of a work, the enjoyment of the copy does not prevent enjoyment of the original ).

The alternator syntax allows a series of items to be generated in sequence until one fails:

In boxing, this can happen even if the fighter fails the 10 count ; or, in many regions, a fighter has been knocked down three times in one round.

However, it fails to account for one of the main differences between quantum mechanics and classical mechanics, that is, the effects of measurement.

If one peer on the network fails to function properly, the whole network is not compromised or damaged.

The aim is for a player to earn more points than the opponent ; points are earned when one fails to return the ball to the other.

If he or she fails again, then the King presents other candidates until one gains confidence.

The German word Zeitgeist is one such example: one who speaks or understands the language may " know " what it means, but any translation of the word apparently fails to accurately capture its full meaning ( this is a problem with many abstract words, especially those derived in agglutinative languages ).

If one is aggrieved by the judicial outcome of an action and wishes to appeal, he may be forever barred from doing so if he fails to meet the deadline by which his appeal may be filed.

The rally proceeds this way until one side fails to make a legal return and the other side scores.

Because of this amendment, if the Electoral College fails to resolve who will be the President or Vice President, the incoming Congress, as opposed to the outgoing one, would choose who would occupy the unresolved office or offices.

* X is nonempty and every ω-sequence of elements of X fails to include at least one element of X.

So it is not obvious which one is the appropriate generalization of " uncountability " when the axiom fails.

A lifter who fails to complete at least one successful snatch and one successful clean and jerk also fails to total, and therefore receives an " incomplete " entry for the competition.