What happens is your immune response goes haywire and then your body starts to attack itself, so theres a failure to shutdown.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

"Rather than a failure to collect or share intelligence," he said, "this was a failure to connect and understand the intelligence that we already had."

VOA: special.2010.01.09

Professor Desai says the search for solutions after a failure can make leaders more open-minded.

VOA: special.2010.09.09

Autoimmune diseases result from a failure of the body's own defenses against disease.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

"Now I say to you gentlemen that this college is a failure.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

Bourke-White's first pictures inside the steel factory in Cleveland were a failure.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

For many years before that,however, he had been considered a failure.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

He said he feared his speech had been a failure.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

The feeling grew that Grant was a failure.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Behrman was a failure in art.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

Senator Joe Lieberman is chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee: "By any measure, SBInet has been a failure."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

"If there was a failure to take appropriate action before the shootings, there must be accountability.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

And at that point,we believe there should be consequences for a failure to respond."

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Under questioning, spokesman Wood said the ensuing North Korean retaliation was not a failure of U.S.diplomacy, but a failure by Pyongyang to live up to its international obligations.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15