Less impressive has been United's form in European club competition, with a shock failure to reach the knockout stages of the Champions League, then a two-leg defeat to Athletic Bilboa in the Europa League.

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All three died after suffering severe respiratory symptoms, including acute respiratory distress syndrome and eventually septic shock and multiple organ failure.

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Shock, overwhelming infections and multi-organ failure are terminal conditions that are commonly seen in intensive care.

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The septic shock had left her with heart and respiratory failure as well as dry gangrene of her foot, which would have to be amputated.

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The drive contains no moving parts, decreasing the risk of data loss due to shock and vibration, and its mean time between failure (MTBF)4 greatly exceeds that of hard disk drives, giving users peace of mind that it will retain their files for the long term.

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The Keynesian story goes like this- if there is collapse in private sector demand due to a failure of business confidence or some other economic shock, then rather than suffer unemployment and all the other negative consequences of recession it is possible for government through public spending to replace the lost demand and steer the economy back to full employment.

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It was this professed failure in the modeling that, we were told, would shock us all on election night when Romney would produce an unexpected landslide electoral victory for the GOP.

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Your efforts to get to Philly based on your misunderstanding about your starting point are almost certainly doomed to failure (those pesky oceans, for instance, are going to be a real shock).

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