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

He told them: "The war for the Union is, in your hands, a most bloody and costly failure.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

When there is crop failure because of a drought or flood, farmers receive a text message.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

A main concern is that the failure of some banks or governments to pay their debts could send a financial shock across many countries.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

One goal is to increase supervision of big companies whose failure could threaten the financial system.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

She writes that academic cheating is a result of communication failure between students and professors.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

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

VOA: special.2009.07.19

It is used especially when it can turn failure into success.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

"This is because such failure, if it were allowed to occur, would have serious negative consequences for generations to come."

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

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

Heart failure is caused by high blood pressure or coronary artery disease, a narrowing of the arteries in the heart.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

But they add that failure to implement fiscal consolidation where it is needed could undermine confidence and hamper growth.

VOA: standard.2010.06.27

Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa is "deeply disappointed" and says "failure is in the atmosphere" regarding Obama administration efforts to resolve the conflict.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

A new device, no bigger than a paper clip, could revolutionize the way heart failure is managed.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

Texas Democrat Al Green said the proposals Geithner outlined do what is necessary to prevent the failure of large institutions from devastating the economy.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

"Daily weight change is insensitive at predicting episodes of worsening heart failure."

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

The continued interest in the mission, and the Apollo program in general, is no surprise to Jim Lovell, the man who helped make Apollo 13 a "successful failure."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15