Electoral College misfire The current Electoral College misfire represents another way electors could affect the election.
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But on the tangled web, our moral instincts can misfire.
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The misfire at the rose ceremony has him on edge.
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To produce a misfire of this magnitude, just about everything.
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Joshua Yehl, IGN: Enchantress herself is one misfire after another.
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The new version of "Be Prepared" is a complete misfire.
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The accidental misfire resulted in Wright accidentally shooting a cameraman.
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Trump's congratulatory call with Russia's Vladimir Putin was a misfire.
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It would misfire, because society is not ready for it.
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Eye twitches happen when the nerves surrounding the lid misfire.
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The movie can't be just the misfire that it is.
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Instead, it's a baffling bummer, a misfire of epic proportions.
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That raised fears that a misfire could endanger residents there.
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For anyone who wants something more, this is a skippable misfire.
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The Brexit misfire, however, may have exposed issues with the markets.
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"It didn't come as some magical biogenetic misfire," Mr. Vachss said.
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Claim it was a slip of the tongue, a grammatical misfire.
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Here's one way of making sense of the misfire between us.
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By midway through the second quarter, the Grizzlies continued to misfire.
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It did not clarify whether anyone was wounded in the misfire.
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Notably, Bush is the only misfire president to win re-election.
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So how is it that the Electoral College produces misfire presidents?
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Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana labeled investigators the "Misfire Hurricane" team.
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An investigation into what caused SpaceX's Crew Dragon to misfire is underway.
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Attribute it to Providence or a misfire, but the round didn't discharge.
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Occasionally a misfire will leave a spitball stuck in the Skid Shot's barrel.
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Only the fried oysters were a misfire, the breading smothering the mushy mollusks.
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In lesser hands, Hello, My Name Is Doris would be a tragic misfire.
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"This is a misfire" by Puerto Rico's government and its advisers, Rodrigue said.
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But just because Kuo was wrong last year doesn't mean he'll misfire again.
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The new size, on the other hand, is a big misfire for Samsung.
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Her dark wit gives her stories genuine tensile strength, even when they misfire.
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Welcome to Friends From College, Netflix's newest comedy and a near-total misfire.
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But the film packages them into something hollow and pointless, a disappointing misfire.
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Yet distortions between the popular and electoral vote complicate legitimacy in misfire elections.
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The greatest trick Samsung ever pulled was spinning its biggest misfire into a feature.
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But even a misfire like "Top of the Lake" isn't for lack of trying.
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This is probably one of those times when the market signal is a misfire.
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Anyway, what's the biggest misfire you've had when sharing something with friends or family?
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The episode was a complete communications misfire, stemming from a misinterpreted press release from NASA.
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Licensing run amok not only poisons markets, it also poisons sentiment towards markets that misfire.
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A misfire or rocket stage falling into this wide expanse will thus inconvenience no one.
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Syromyatnikov tried to salvage the misfire, and pressed on with plans to build Znamya 3.
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And here's the misfire, the point at which the expected functioning of popular democracy failed.
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Aiken was the Astros' second misfire at No. 23, after pitcher Mark Appel in 222.
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The misfire on Tuesday night was about a lot more than a failure in polling.
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It is all so inexpensive, though, that he said he didn't mind the occasional misfire.
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Its guest-star moment, "Baby, It's Cold Outside," with Cee Lo Green, is a misfire.
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Her serves and forehands can misfire by yards, and her shot selection is sometimes questionable.
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Their one misfire was a small, intimate non-Spanish coffee shop in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
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The elections of 1824, 2703, 1888, 2000, and 2016 are generally recognized as misfire elections.
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I'll be the first to put my hand up when I misfire with a prediction.
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It marks another major misfire for the studio Universal after "Cats" bombed critically and financially.
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This misfire caused quarterly sales to drop 23 percent last October, jeopardizing its entire mobile division.
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Not that Roth, who has a "buy" rating on the shares, is betting on a misfire.
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In the end, Bell gave Littlefield the cover he needed to move on from Bonifay's misfire.
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"Winter's War" marked yet another box office misfire for Chris Hemsworth, who played the title role.
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But there is a body of academic work that supports the idea that elections often misfire.
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His misfire has raised questions about his own capacity to shepherd major agenda items into law.
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Either way, Alice Through the Looking Glass was a misfire for both Disney and its audiences.
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The firing of FBI Director James Comey is the latest, gravest example of a Trump misfire.
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You might catch the Next Big Thing, but you're equally likely to endure an ambitious misfire.
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Misfire presidents arguably face their first major crisis before they even take the oath of office.
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"Waymo's injunction motion is a misfire," Angela Padilla, Uber's associate general counsel, said in a statement.
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The potential for a misfire is based upon how well our models did in the past.
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"Synchronicity," a low-budget misfire about time and love, could use some exploding heads, dialogue and ideas.
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AS POLLING errors go, this year's misfire was not particularly large—at least in the national surveys.
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That seems like forever away, but to misfire on another coaching hire could be a crippling blow.
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It was a flashy misfire, and an infamous example of esports going mainstream in the wrong way.
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But she changed into tennis shoes -- making the whole "she's out of touch!" thing a total misfire.
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Another misfire was a gorgeous lobe of burrata compromised by dull, cooked beets and cloying grape syrup.
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It was a misfire, for sure, in an episode themed heavily around self-perception, or lack thereof.
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More misfire elections will invite further questions of legitimacy and buoy efforts to reform the Electoral College.
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That's what makes Adeline a misfire, even in the hands of an actor as gifted as Leigh.
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But there is no way around it: "Billy Lynn" is a hall-of-fame box-office misfire.
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And, when we misfire, we can always rely on a horde of reporters to cover the story.
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The change meant that a single angle-of-attack sensor was the lone guard against a misfire.
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Pray out loud that the bank will find, and use, some new bazookas – and that they won't misfire.
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But in the end, that can't begin to save this ill-conceived, poorly cast misfire of a biopic.
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There was indignation and accusations that the tweet was sexist, a misfire in the pursuit of youthful appeal.
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By midway through the half, the Spartans had pushed the lead to 23 as Illinois continued to misfire.
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H.P. Lovecraft, Georges Simenon, Derek Raymond, Patrick McGrath: Their stylistic peculiarities, even when they misfire, elicit Oates's sympathy.
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Targeting the first lady for her shoes was worse than a cheap shot — it was a pathetic misfire.
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During a seizure, neurons misfire and send an abnormally large and quick surge of electrical signals to the brain.
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When it comes to his sudden misfire against the media, Elon Musk is losing some of his rocket fuel.
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What saves this story from feeling like a total misfire is the script's willingness to scramble your emotional investment.
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"[I]t would seem to be much harder to dismiss the latest incident as another misfire," the AP noted.
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The Bulls closed out the game from the free-throw line while the Warriors continued to misfire from outside.
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"Loose cannons tend to misfire," she said, "and what we have with him is the loosest of all cannons."
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But its modern incarnation, portrayed in the French director Fabienne Berthaud's intriguing misfire, "Sky," feels only marginally more civilized.
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Bisbee '28 wasn't even shortlisted for the Oscars, which seems to me to be a clear and giant misfire.
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It wasn't a great moment for an episode to misfire with the show's audience, which is three-quarters nonblack.
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If foldables are relegated to the dustbin of history, however, the Fold misfire will take much of the heat.
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And national legal systems are ill-suited to protect against the borderless consequences of misuse or misfire of technology.
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In spite of the charm and discipline of the stars, the jokes misfire and the scenes creak and stumble.
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And yet, if that's the idea, then the effort to follow genre conventions so closely is a total misfire.
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The only genuinely unexpected misfire you could point to came when Murphy tried to set himself up as a producer.
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No algorithm works perfectly every time you run it—even the best ones misfire some small percentage of the time.
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As the scathing reviews and limp box office numbers have made clear, it's a misfire on just about every level.
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Fiat 500 and MiniCooper prove that rebooting iconic vehicles is possible; Volkswagen's unloved new Beetle shows how it can misfire.
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If it's a misfire, a simple "CLICK" appears on screen so they know they get to play again next round.
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And this misfire could ultimately do that for both the company and the category, courtesy of its informal beta testing.
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Is déjà vu evidence of a past life, an out of body experience or just a good old neural misfire?
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Undoubtedly. Instead, season two will at best go down as a misfire when the history of this show is written.
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Major decisions would be put off for weeks until suddenly she would erupt, driving her staff to panic and misfire.
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In the second, when Milwaukee scored three, Matz's misfire on a sacrifice bunt by Davies allowed two runs to score.
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But Ms. Asante's new film, "Where Hands Touch," an attempt to tell one such story, is a gut-wrenching misfire.
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Major decisions would be put off for weeks until suddenly she would erupt, driving her staff to panic and misfire.
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A subplot about butt augmentation is a bad misfire, both scolding and flippant; a digression into Jamie's marriage is dull.
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He was what I like to deem a classic misfire — I'd liked his friend, let's call him T, for years.
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One misfire was the Turner Prize-winning artist Douglas Gordon's "Neck of the Woods," at the 2015 Manchester International Festival.
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As it is, "Allied," which drew soft reviews, will likely go down as another misfire for Mr. Zemeckis and Paramount.
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The Sony 1000X M3 are a good example of this, as they can misunderstand touch commands or misfire in the cold.
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What about Ben Wheatley, whose upcoming Free Fire is a misfire that nonetheless delivers hard-hitting action amid some dark laughs.
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It just means that the remaining human workers will pick up the slack when the warehouse bots misfire or make mistakes.
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This is especially so, given the prospects for another misfire election along with concerns over the legitimacy of American electoral practices.
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A faulty spark plug caused his engine to continue to misfire audibly on Lap 29, but he continued pushing behind Senna.
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One of the menu's few nods to the 21st century — an appetizer of lobster sliders with lemon aioli — was a misfire.
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We didn't entirely agree on which episodes were strongest, but we agreed that there wasn't a real misfire in the bunch.
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" Scaramucci had previously told Cuomo he believed the hiring of Kelly as chief of staff was a "mistake" and a "misfire.
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Yet resources are being continually poured into studies such as this latest one, to underscore the inaccuracy of that original misfire.
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Ronen Manelis, said on Twitter that the mother and daughter were killed in a Hamas misfire, not from an Israeli strike.
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The misfire came during a major exercise, called Zapad 2017, or West 2017, though the timing of the strike was unclear.
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The reviews matched the sentiment, referring to it as a "mind-numbing, crash-bang misfire" with a "lame" concept and execution.
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The error could have caused another misfire during the spacecraft's return — specifically, when Starliner's crew cabin separated from its service module.
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But investigators found that it could misfire because of faulty data from a sensor, forcing the plane into an unstoppable dive.
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U.K. government under pressure over nuclear missile test misfire U.K. government under pressure over nuclear missile test misfire The U.K. government is under pressure to answer questions about an alleged cover-up of a failed Trident missile test that happened just one month before parliament voted for a £40 billion ($50 billion) renewal of the nuclear deterrent.
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Microsoft is being very deliberate in its messaging here, as the company's executives still remember the Xbox One's misfire of a launch.
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So, Jupiter's stay in Sag might kick off to a muted start, but don't shrug this period off as an astrological misfire.
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You would be correct to say Glass was ahead of its time, a misfire as much as it was a teachable moment.
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It's a classic misfire that makes what could be a fact-based passionate message into what sounds like a random conspiracy theory.
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Ernest Stevens was vindicated on appeal, but decades later his son would say the family's ordeal taught him that justice can misfire.
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He closed out by calling the "press covfefe" false, a nod to the now famous misfire from President Donald Trump's Twitter account.
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A follow-up in 21992, "Smorgasbord" (also known as "Cracking Up"), proved a misfire, and Mr. Lewis never directed another feature film.
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But if you misfire, their own tale will be a mystery until a later date, if you encounter them and try again.
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"He enjoys making provocative statements, and because he is not a seasoned politician he doesn't know when it will misfire," says Greenberg.
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The rest is a mawkish, retrograde misfire that tries hard to recall an earlier era of filmmaking, but misses the point altogether.
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However, it turns out that Mr Trump's performance on Facebook provided tantalising clues as to where the public surveys were likely to misfire.
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Much of Apple's earnings misfire was tied to a 26 percent slump in revenue in Greater China, which includes Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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The reason for the misfire, it seems, was the refusal of some voters who had been selected for the exit poll to participate.
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Harris, along with several other notable legislators, pointed out recent research showing how facial recognition can produce or reinforce bias, or otherwise misfire.
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It's a tonal misfire, but it also made me think a bit of how all over the place young Nicolas Cage could be.
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A profound misfire, this biopic is a dramatically inert attempt to pay tribute to the blacklisted screenwriters caught up in the Red Scare.
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That was my only true misfire, but I spent an inordinate amount of time working on the whole left side of this puzzle.
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The misfire came as the White House scrambled to coordinate responses to Democrats who the day before had announced a formal impeachment inquiry.
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Questions of whether fans were experiencing Star Wars fatigue arose after Solo ended up losing money for Disney, an unexpected box office misfire.
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Mr. Tull, a "Great Wall" producer, also led the charge for another Legendary misfire, "Warcraft," which was released six months after Wanda's acquisition.
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The result is a not-so-Marvel-ous misfire that leaves little to latch onto except perhaps for the most invested comics fans.
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His former campaign manager, Ray Guardia, was hired by Mulcair shortly after the party's electoral misfire after years in exile with the NDP.
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I'm kind of surprised that Solo was seen as such a misfire as to throw off all of Disney's plans for Star Wars spinoffs.
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his finance spokesman John McDonnell, who both oppose Trident, on Sunday called for a discussion on the reported misfire.
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But when the reality of a virtual world is specifically based on a tight integration with physical touch, even one misfire can be jarring.
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It all happened at such a breakneck speed that the box office misfire that was Scott's Alien: Covenant has become but a distant memory.
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What causes this misfire is less clear, though it has to do with something called "vagal tone," or the functioning of the vagus nerve.
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Genome-editing techniques still aren't perfect, and they can sometimes misfire, leading to random mutations or other "off-target" effects in the edited cells.
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The publicity misfire led people with knowledge of Wright to speculate at the time that he would stop making bitcoin and blockchain patent applications.
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She forgave him for the misfire, and we all moved on, infatuated with the new guy, who, it seems, will forever overshadow his predecessor.
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The Wii U presented a rare major misfire for the gaming giant, while its executives stubbornly clung to a strategy that actively excluded smartphones.
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On the plus side, the crust was buttery and a little bit flakey, but that wasn't enough to salvage what was a regrettable misfire.
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They often misfire in scent-rich environments where odors—apparently made of some of the same compounds—may waft in from various nonexplosive sources.
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This somewhat infamous misfire from Oscar-winning director Susanne Bier features that true rarity: a Jennifer Lawrence performance in which she looks deeply uncomfortable.
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" The music will surely connect with some even if it feels like a misfire creatively, but what is certain is that "Awaken, My Love!
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In one misfire, the studio tried to make a mobile show, "Epic Quit," that involved people quitting their jobs in over-the-top ways.
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The Upshot model estimated that a polling misfire was about as likely as a baseball strikeout or a missed midrange field goal in football.
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After the uninspired "both sides" misfire of Infinite, a return to BioShock under new leadership might be the right direction for the franchise's future.
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Films this big and this bold with this obviously big a budget come along so rarely that they're worth savoring even when they misfire.
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An accidental misfire on the set of Hold The Dark has star Jeffrey Wright feeling embarrassed and left one cameraman with a great party story.
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Clinton's partisans pointed to the attack on her credentials, which polls show are one of her strongest assets as a candidate, as a strategic misfire.
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"London Fields," directed by Matthew Cullen and adapted from Martin Amis's 1989 novel, is, quite simply, horrendous — a trashy, tortured misfire from beginning to end.
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There, alas, the resemblance ends, because "Superhero," which opened on Thursday at Second Stage Theater, in a production directed by Jason Moore, is a misfire.
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Still, Mr. Hare's busy workload means this misfire may soon be forgotten: His own Ibsen rewrite, "Peter Gynt," is on the National's schedule for 2019.
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While they didn't catch Madonna's misfire, their point is this ... Aretha's far bigger than any kind of tribute, and her fans shouldn't be so sensitive.
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Even "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" was widely viewed as a misfire; longtime fans loathed the story, leaving that whip-cracking franchise on wobbly footing.
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A doctoral thesis could be written on how this misfire sputtered into existence, though there's nothing new about the movies' energetic embrace of bad taste.
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It would be the latest box-office misfire for 20th Century Studios, the studio formerly known as Fox, since the Disney-Fox merger last year.
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The evening's only weird misfire was when Colbert surprised the crowd with former press secretary and apparent friend of the talk show circuit Sean Spicer.
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Unlike with many vocal alarms, the wing whistling is hard to fake or misfire because the whistling is only produced when the pigeon is fleeing danger.
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Nerf blasters are designed to fire a very specific size and shape of foam dart each time, and even then you'll still get the occasional misfire.
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In other N.Y.C. campaign news, former New York state senator Hillary Clinton had a minor misfire as she attempted to enter the subway on Thursday morning.
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And this has been a strategic misfire, as the campaign of Ayotte's opponent, Democratic Governor Maggie Hassan, has had a field day tying her to Trump.
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The company blamed its latest misfire on churn, or the rate of cancellations, which rose slightly after Netflix hiked prices in the US earlier this year.
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The kind of misfire to send me rushing to the theatre in my Nomi Malone nails to ponder all of the collateral beauty around me onscreen.
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The performance of national surveys has been one of the better reasons to assume that last year's misfire wasn't a broad indictment of public opinion polls.
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" Sometimes O'Malley's circuitry seems to misfire, but there is no time to stop and think — he will stand in front of a Mustang and chant: "Steroids!
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Asked four times during a BBC interview on Sunday whether she knew about the misfire before the vote in parliament, May repeatedly declined to answer directly.
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Meanwhile, operations in the hilly city of Chongqing were another misfire for the company as the environment wasn't ideal for cycling, Chinese news outlet Caixin reported.
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For example, the Cas9 enzymes can occasionally "misfire" and edit DNA in unexpected places, which in human cells might lead to cancer or even create new diseases.
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Yet Uber, in a filing days later, claimed that "Waymo's patent claims were a complete misfire"—in other words, that it had demonstrated its hands were clean.
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Asked four times during a BBC television interview on Sunday whether she knew about the misfire before she made that speech, May repeatedly declined to answer directly.
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Simmons then scored the next four points, the Celtics continued to misfire from the field and the Sixers' lead was suddenly 87-73 with 7:04 left.
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Although the activity coach does come in handy when it cross-references with your progress, noticing sleepless nights or a dip in activity, it can also misfire.
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It must simultaneously serve as the company's living room and portable consoles, while making up ground lost to the Wii U — arguably its biggest home gaming misfire.
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Counting the lust song that quotes a mouthy Australian's anti-American analysis at length, only four tracks are explicitly "political," including a misfire aimed at bulletproof blankets.
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The "Parsifal," directed by Pierre Audi and designed by the artist Georg Baselitz, was a vapid misfire, and made me appreciate Bayreuth's critical sensibility all the more.
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Clinton unqualified struck some Democrats as a strategic misfire, as more voters say she has the right experience for the job than say that Mr. Sanders does.
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Perhaps something is lost in translation, but the sentiment appears to be a tongue-in-cheek reminder of a misfire that Samsung almost certainly wants to forget.
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Or was it — and the polling misfire by Crowley, who by the way used one of the same pollsters as Cuomo — a sign of what's to come?
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Yet timing isn't the only reason the new "Death Wish," a so-called reimagining of Michael Winner's 1974 thriller of the same name, is an imbecilic misfire.
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Dave Chappelle released the first comedy special focusing on the #MeToo movement, and our critic says it was a misfire, with bits that feel tired or callous.
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Fitbit Versa Lite review Announced earlier this year, the Versa Lite was widely regarded as a misfire — something CEO James Park admitted in a recent earnings call.
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Investigators now think the WannaCry attack may have been an early misfire of a weapon that was still under development — or a test of tactics and vulnerabilities.
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Starliner's internal clock was off by 11 hours, which caused the spacecraft to misfire and stumble off course, NASA and Boeing officials told reporters at the time.
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This will represent the second Electoral College "misfire" in the past five elections and the sixth time the popular vote winner did not win in the Electoral College.
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Federer seemed rattled and his forehand began to misfire and it was that stroke which allowed Anderson a decisive break of serve at 3-3 in the fourth.
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As Mahomes told Peter King of NBC Sports, there was plenty of support from his teammates on the sideline after his misfire — in fact, there was too much.
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Free Fire Ben Wheatley's latest misfire wastes a bunch of good actors (Brie Larson, Sharlto Copley, Cillian Murphy and Armie Hammer) and is hamstrung by a goofy tone.
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CORBYN'S HIGH-FIVE MISFIRE Despite a better-than-expected performance for his party at the polls, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn did have one embarrassing moment on election night.
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While that misfire rate — 0.23 percent — is well below the international average of 0.65 percent for mishandled bags, it still adds up to a lot of unhappy customers.
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With megaphones and T-shirt cannons in hand, they tell random pedestrians to go see the film... and have a cannon misfire or two while they're at it.
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His last big-budget movie, "Dark Shadows," was a box office misfire; his last outing as a producer, "Alice Through the Looking Glass," was closer to a calamity.
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Some Republicans worry a misfire on the Republican healthcare legislation could hobble Trump's presidency and set the stage for losses for the party in the 210 congressional elections.
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Attempts to discourage working "off the clock" misfire, as millennials read them not as permission to stop working, but a means to further distinguish themselves by being available anyway.
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Some Republicans worry a misfire on Trump's first major legislative effort may hobble his presidency and set the stage for losses for the party in the 2018 congressional elections.
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Oklahoma State quarterback Taylor Cornelius was nearly flawless against Oklahoma last week, only to misfire on a 2-point conversion pass to Tylan Wallace in a 23-point loss.
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Yet close inspection of the election of 2271 suggests that John F. Kennedy's victory should also be included as a misfire, given the composition of Alabama's Electoral College delegation.
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Staggeringly silly and visually disordered, this unfortunate misfire has been kicking around Europe and elsewhere for a couple of years under different titles, and it's easy to see why.
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While still playing in relatively limited release — 807 locations — ahead of a planned wider rollout next weekend, "The Front Runner" (Sony) can be declared a major box-office misfire.
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Rain, even light rain, for example, can result in wet charges, making a misfire or the firing of a short round more likely and risking a friendly-fire situation.
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Murphy, 54, sat down recently with me in a Georgetown tavern to reflect on the Right to Rise misfire, the state of the Republican Party and the emergence of Trump.
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Madonna is letting everyone know that she's aware of Pepsi's marketing misfire by throwing some shade at the soft-drink company, which she once had beef with in the past.
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It does put it in line with Wii U's launch price, though that ultimately seemed like a misfire for the company, which cut the cost by $50 the following summer.
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The result is a nuanced form of communication that can have an immediate positive effect on markets but also easily lead to more confusion than clarity and possibly misfire altogether.
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Sometimes the snowday warning was a misfire: There are forecasts when everyone rushes and hunkers for an apocalypse that never comes; and then people grumble that the city's gone soft.
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Meanwhile, the fifth episode — "Babylon" — was only saved by its status as a fascinating misfire, which tried to engender sympathy for Islamic terrorists and ended up doing roughly the opposite.
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Cockpit chaos: A federal review said Boeing had failed to account for how a misfire of an automated system could lead to other problems for pilots of the 737 Max.
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That error could have caused another misfire during the spacecraft's return — specifically, when Starliner's crew cabin separated from a cylindrical service module before landing, according to Boeing and NASA officials.
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In the late fall of 2014, during rehearsals for a play he was coördinating, he spoke sharply to a student: a misfire not of language, he says, but of tone.
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Don't look for literal acts of arson in "The Burning Girl," a title that is — sorry — a misfire in the current market, encouraging readers to expect another domestic suspense novel.
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To ensure it didn't misfire, engineers initially designed MCAS to trigger when the plane exceeded at least two separate thresholds, according to three people who worked on the 2737 Max.
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But the spacecraft did not dock with the space station after a software issue during the launch caused Starliner's autonomous flight-control system to misfire, putting Starliner in the wrong orbit.
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After Cody Parkey missed from 50 yards for the Dolphins -- his first misfire in nine tries this season -- Flacco began the drive that would end in the end zone without him.
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For now, the series is a half-baked misfire that tries to dress up its vague jokes about insufferable rich people in even vaguer "Can you believe this shit?" moral outrage.
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The misfire resulted in Molinari and course marshals looking like a herd of mountain goats, precariously poking around the cliffside in search of a ball which was eventually found but unplayable.
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The New York-based startup had a bit of a misfire last time with a goofy and confusing promo tied to the announcement of an otherwise fairly compelling connected home product.
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Investigators looking to the Lion Air Flight 610 crash in Indonesia think similar system malfunctions were involved, including erroneous data from a single sensor that caused the MCAS system to misfire.
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Rescinding this regulatory misfire would significantly expand access to ethanol and build on the progress of one of the most successful energy policies in U.S. history, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
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What happened with the cancellation of The Hunt is a good example: People got angry about it for political reasons and the studio didn't want an expensive misfire on their hands.
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An oracle of our end times, Steyerl is a crucial voice in a chorus of culture critics seeking to understand contemporary culture, but does her new installation on gun violence misfire?
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In operating rooms, there have been staplers that misfire; temperature control machines that spray bacteria into open chest cavities; and robotic surgeons that slap, burn and, in some cases, maim patients.
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In spite of the claim that so-called "misfire elections" are infrequent, the winner of the Electoral College has failed to win the popular vote in 10% of all presidential elections.
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But the craft did not dock with the space station after a software issue during the launch caused Starliner's autonomous flight-control system to misfire, putting Starliner in the wrong orbit.
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The National Transportation Safety Board, after a monthslong review, said the company had failed to account for how a misfire of an automated system could lead to other problems for pilots.
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Holiday then missed a jumper with 21.9 seconds to go, but Myles Turner retrieved the rebound for the Pacers and Holiday didn't misfire on his second opportunity, nailing his difference-maker.
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In October 2007, Medtronic, a leading medical device manufacturer, recalled the lead wires in its Sprint Fidelis defibrillator after they were found to fracture and misfire, harming or even killing patients.
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The polls did indeed misfire—but only by a paltry two percentage points, slightly less than the historical average error in surveys taken during the final month of a campaign in Australia.
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As the game gets trippier toward the end and structures pop in and out of existence, it can be hard to tell what's an intentional glitch and what's an actual technical misfire.
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Jane begs her to get rid of it, and the show makes a rare misfire in stretching this request out, having Sutton attempt to justify her gun ownership for an entire episode.
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For every misfire like the LaPuta and Aspire, there was a Legend and an Integra; for every Pinto or Nova, we had a Hornet and a Marauder, a Barracuda and a Talon.
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The year that the book came out, he took a teaching job at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his second novel, "The Tenant" (22007), another overdetermined misfire, is set.
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Financial performance was driven by an 8% jump in sponsorship revenue largely due to new deals with well-known brands, highlighting the club's commercial appeal even as they misfire on the pitch.
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Still, this ad is a misfire, in that it is a blatant attempt to make money off a painful and ongoing collective action that has not even an indirect relationship to face razors.
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Why China's tough, new terrorism legislation could misfire China, terrorism and ISIS China has claimed that hundreds, even thousands, of Uyghurs are traveling to Syria to fight with rebel groups there, including ISIS.
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The podcast, combined with Paul's boxing stint this year, makes it seem as if he's trying to diversify his revenue streams in a long-form format where it's harder to have stunts misfire.
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Last June, Britain's Trident nuclear submarine suffered a missile misfire off the coast of Florida when an unarmed warhead headed to the U.S. instead of its intended target off Africa, according to reports.
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To avoid going down as a misfire, "A Wrinkle in Time" — primarily aimed at children ages 8 to 14 — must attract large numbers of families in the coming weeks, when schools begin spring breaks.
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Netflix has been aggressively courting high-profile filmmakers like the Coen brothers, Ava DuVernay and Martin Scorsese, but the last time it did so for a musical series, the result was an expensive misfire.
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But, he added, the sanctions could misfire if Rosneft concludes that the higher costs of doing business in Venezuela are justified by the geopolitical benefit of helping out Russia's key ally in South America.
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The mind's capabilities to misfire have frightened the public imagination since Jack the Ripper's sociopathy cleared the streets of Whitechapel after dark, but Hitchcock was the first to put it into pop-psych layman's terms.
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Overall, the show's big bet on Negan has been a bit of a misfire, with ratings hitting staggering lows last year, and Negan himself largely absent from the first half of the show's eighth season.
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The last misfire of the Electoral College in 2000 ultimately gave us John Roberts and Samuel Alito as Supreme Court justices, and they provided the pivotal votes for the gutting of the Voting Rights Act.
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Kate Lindsey, an intense mezzo-soprano, sings Orlando as a young man at an uncomfortably low register, then higher after her transformation into a woman; in a show about androgyny, this feels like a misfire.
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The editorial misfire bears retelling because it showed the most likely way that the new administration's attempts to shut down the free press could succeed, just as it shows how those attempts can be stopped.
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The Scottish National Party, which voted en masse against the Trident renewal due to its base being located in Scotland, has called for "full disclosure" of who knew about the misfire and when they knew.
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Hamilton ran off track after the car snapped and spun into turn three in the afternoon when he was on a soft tyre run, with the team then detecting a misfire in his car's power unit.
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The misfire resulted in worldwide coverage from several news outlets, a mini documentary series from fellow YouTube creator Shane Dawson, and week-long conversations about the future of massive conventions between online personalities and their fans.
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Thus far, the show's big bet on Negan has been a bit of a misfire, with ratings hitting staggering lows last year and Negan himself largely absent from the first half of the show's eighth season.
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Thus far, the show's big bet on Negan has been a bit of a misfire, with ratings hitting staggering lows last year, and Negan himself largely absent from the first half of the show's eighth season.
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While it won't call 21997's budget OnePlus X a misfire (the phone apparently sold pretty well), it does acknowledge that it learned a lesson about trying offer up too many products at a given time.
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Without a good explanation for the misfire, it would be understandable to wonder whether lower response rates had degraded the political survey research to the point where our metaphorical field goal kicker ought to consider retirement.
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In the 5003 crash and the Max accidents, the failure of a single sensor caused systems to misfire, and Boeing had not provided pilots with information that could have helped them react to the malfunction. 5.
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The misfire added yet another layer of confusion to an already murky situation days after the region erupted in response to the U.S. drone attack that killed Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani at the Baghdad airport.
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The U.S. misfire is a boost for local crowds and the tournament organizers, with 43-year-old Woods naming himself in Friday's foursomes with Thomas rather than sitting out to manage the team from the sidelines.
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Following the relatively tepid response to last year's messy misfire Justice League, the best-case scenario for fans and everyone involved would be an Aquaman that's not only a breakout hit but also a great movie.
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Uber says that the Google spinoff's lawsuit is "a misfire," but in doing so, the combative ride-hailing company was forced to make a begrudging admission: that Google's self-driving cars are far superior to its own.
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Monday night's Iowa misfire quickly inspired a raft of online trolling and conspiracy theories, many of them seeming to suggest — without evidence — that the Democratic establishment was trying to derail a victory by Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders.
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The very thing you're pointing out is what made Rob and I reluctant to do the whole thing in the first place: that potential misfire of the whole thing, which is a huge exercise of self-indulgence.
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Her company is having a good time here, and after the misfire of her work for American Ballet Theater this fall, it's good to see her back in her element, among her tribe, jamming with her band.
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So many advertising ploys, and yet none of them could save "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" from becoming the first colossal fail of the summer movie season and a hall-of-fame misfire for Warner Bros.
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Comparisons: In the 2009 and Max accidents, the failure of a single sensor caused systems to misfire, with catastrophic results, and Boeing did not provide pilots with information that could have helped them react to the malfunction.
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Although the studio has remarkably avoided a major box-office misfire -- as even Lucasfilm experienced with "Solo: A Star Wars Story" -- ABC's "The Inhumans" flopped, and an attempt to spin off "Agents of SHIELD" died in development.
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Just say, "Alexa, ask CNN for a quiz." it's the weekend, baby The new remake (or is it reboot?) of "The Predator" is the big new offering in theaters, but CNN's Brian Lowry says it's a misfire.
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If Red Sparrow is a movie about the things it purports to be about, like the blurred lines around issues of consent in the espionage game, then it's a misfire at best and horribly exploitative at worst.
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It can misfire if those proportions change abruptly—as they might well in 2016 given Mr Obama's absence from the ballot, and Mr Trump's unconventional appeal to the white working class and how disliked he is by Hispanics.
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In order to sync up to a display like this, the map is going to have to get things just right — and anyone who's ever walked through the city streets on Maps knows how often that can misfire.
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As Nishikori began to find his rhythm Cilic started to misfire and the Japanese 21st seed collecting a second consecutive break on a double fault to surge in front 5-4 before holding serve to level the match.
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A new client of Minnie Lau, a San Francisco accountant, recently made a misfire in declaring the cost basis of some employer-issued stock, thanks to a fumble involving the interplay between tax software and a brokerage statement.
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In the 2009 and Max accidents, for example, the failure of a single sensor caused systems to misfire, with catastrophic results, and Boeing had not provided pilots with information that could have helped them react to the malfunction.
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The New York Times called it a "gut-wrenching misfire," while Jezebel lamented the missed opportunity to really hone in on the struggles faced by the very real, and often overlooked community of biracial Germans, sans troubling love story.
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The only other misfire is the omission of "Try A Little Tenderness" by Otis Redding from the LP—which soundtracks the most memorable scene from the film, featuring some grade-A showing off from John Cryer's the Duck Man.
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A later episode, for example, includes what amounts to a conspicuous gag about New Coke, the notorious marketing misfire, incorporated so clumsily as to almost become a jump-the-shark moment, to borrow an enduring reference from another decade.
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Boeing recently promised to update MCAS to prevent it from overriding other cockpit commands or misfire based on faulty readings, as well as issue training revisions informing pilots on how to deactivate MCAS in the event of an error.
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Theresa May offered fellow EU leaders a "fair" deal on Thursday for compatriots living in Britain after Brexit, though her peers sounded skeptical and demanded more detail from a prime minister weakened by an electoral misfire two weeks ago.
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WASHINGTON — From the start, he was a central casting misfire — the dark artist slicing through the capital by electric scooter, a cloak-and-dagger digger better known to former colleagues for scratching his bare belly in plain office view.
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But Goldman executives suggested that no specific position in the markets had harmed results, and analysts and employees said the problems were more likely caused by the firm's unique position in the markets than by any one trading misfire.
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In the era of games-as-service—and with Piranha's own history supporting a multiplayer game clear in my mind—it's easy to imagine Mercenaries not as a misfire, but as an opening salvo of something greater to come.
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Second, he was the face of Warner Bros.' thriller The Accountant, which went from a buzzed-about early October misfire to a potential franchise starter: The Gavin O'Connor–directed thriller took in $148.3 million off a $44 million production budget.
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It's not impossible to figure out why — Sprint has never been the largest of carriers, and a costly misfire by betting on WiMAX first for 4G instead of LTE like everyone else meant that Sprint was years behind other networks' buildouts.
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Read more: Lady Gaga tried to turn 'Shallow' into a rock song at the Grammys, and fans had mixed reactions The misfire occurred when Gaga's underwhelming "Joanne (Where Do You Think You're Goin'?)" was crowned as the best pop solo performance.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Theresa May offered fellow EU leaders a "fair" deal on Thursday for compatriots living in Britain after Brexit, though her peers sounded skeptical and demanded more detail from a prime minister weakened by an electoral misfire two weeks ago.
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It can be easy to misfire with dishes that have deep traditions among African-Americans — I recall my wife's gagging as she described biting into macaroni and cheese made by a white co-worker, and discovering that it contained corn.
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In addition to his debate misfire, he got into a public feud with a former Miss Universe, was hit by a New York Times exposé of his taxes and suggested — without evidence — that Hillary Clinton had been unfaithful to her husband.
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Mike Sinnett, a Boeing vice president, said Boeing felt pilots did not need to know more about the plane's system automated anti-stall system, identified as having misfired in investigations into both crashes, given how unlikely it was considered to misfire.
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Directed by the perpetually fascinating Richard Linklater, whose uneven filmography (from Dazed and Confused to A Scanner Darkly to Boyhood and Before Sunrise) is always worth watching, Bernadette is a soggy misfire, with sparks of possibility peppering a weirdly plodding tale.
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It's also progress for a series like "I Love Dick" to be a misfire without that being a big deal, or a message about whether women are funny, or the economic key to all future shows about or for them.
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It was the third anniversary of his first travel ban, the impeachment drama was sputtering to an end and the starting gun for the 2020 election season was about to go off in Iowa (or, as it happened, to pathetically misfire).
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"L'Amant Double" is one of a handful of female-driven movies in the main lineup along with "A Gentle Creature," a misfire from the Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa about a woman who endures a series of torments, including a gang rape.
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That $150 million film also came loaded with gender politics — the superhero genre has long been moviedom's biggest boys' club, on both sides of the camera — and a misfire could lead to further exclusion: Leave the superheroics to the dudes.
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Carey said that at a meeting between pilots and the FAA in April, the FAA highlighted a checklist Boeing had directed pilots to use in the event of an MCAS misfire that an agency official said had not been validated since 1967.
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Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo)Keeping multiple voice assistants in your home can lead to the occasional misfire, causing a far-flung device in the bedroom to react while you're attempting to extract the weather forecast from the one in your living room.
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Some scholars have concluded that these so-called misfire elections are likely to occur with greater frequency and will most assuredly produce results similar to those seen in 2000 and 2016, with a Republican winning the Electoral College and a Democrat winning the popular vote.
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"Additionally, if the Marine experiences a misfire and the round must be removed from the barrel, it is safer to have the barrel release from the side and retain the ammunition than to have it release and potentially fall to the ground," Berger said.
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Yet, when presented with the opportunity to undermine their rivals, all six of the candidates onstage decided the risk of an aggressive attack simply wasn't worth the possibility of a misfire — or angering Democratic voters eager for party unity in the face of President Trump.
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"It's important to understand the neurocircuitry of anger and aggression and realize that we have these biological responses because they are sometimes necessary, but that often these circuits can misfire, especially in the modern world, an environment our brain was not designed to operate in," said Fields.
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Whether it was a strategic decision or a mental misfire to stand back in this bout, he didn't benefit from any sort of pressure on Garbrandt and where that would hide some of his defensive flaws, out in the open they were served up on a platter.
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And while North Korea's capability to recover missiles from extreme depths of the ocean is believed to be limited, Pyongyang was able to obtain missile fragments of a submarine misfire in 2015 when those pieces were spotted floating in the water, according to reports at the time.
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That being said, all of this could easily be filed away as "a slight misfire, but fun enough" if it weren't for the game's daunting and ultimately exhausting structure, seemingly designed to remind you of how much more of this sucker you need to get through.
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Australian Jason Day (72), who also missed the cut last week in the latest misfire of what has so far been an underwhelming season, has plenty of work ahead if he plans to play the weekend after mixing a double-bogey with three bogeys and three birdies.
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The woman, Kathy McVay, was heralded for not taking the misfire too hard—"It gives people a good laugh, and if that makes somebody chuckle, then that's fine," she told ABC6—and the Phillies organization, for its part, offered her free tickets to any upcoming game.
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READ MORE: Marvel's big movie and TV reveal this weekend was only a taste of its plan to dominate for years to come"The Last Stand," the third movie in the original "X-Men" trilogy, performed well at the box office, but was a critical misfire.
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Highlighting Ms. Nixon's inexperience also lead to a memorable misfire early on, when one of Mr. Cuomo's supporters, the former City Council speaker, Christine Quinn, called Ms. Nixon "an unqualified lesbian," a phrase that Ms. Nixon co-opted as a rallying cry and a fund-raising tool.
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To make a decision in favor of fewer than 100,000 angry "moms" and dismiss the 63% of Americans -- more than 200 million people -- who support same-sex marriage -- is a rash misfire, not a calculated decision by a brand with rational thinking and crisis communications planning.
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After that misfire, he took the suggestion of Jerry Wexler, the Atlantic Records executive who produced R&B heavyweights like Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin, and began recording songs, like "Iko Iko" and "Tipitina," which were as fundamental to New Orleans as red beans and rice.
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In the example we've been using, a misfire could mean that the second two-digit block, 34, gets assigned an incorrect tag, and as a result, when it goes looking for the block it's supposed to be joined to, it doesn't have the information it needs to find 56.
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IR blasters are a legendarily dumb technology with a host of issues — commands can get interrupted by sunlight shining in from a window, commands often misfire, and the IR blasters on the Cube need to have some kind of line of sight to the devices you want to control.
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Like all Pixar movies, Cars 3 is gorgeous — the landscapes the characters race through are more photorealistic than ever, recalling The Good Dinosaur (another recent Pixar misfire that nonetheless looked great) — but like most of the studio's 2010s output, its storytelling is perhaps too complicated to really register.
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After getting roughed up with his live-action debut, the awful misfire John Carter, Stanton returns to animation for Finding Dory, which picks up where Nemo left off: This time, it's the lovably forgetful Dory (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres) who goes on a journey to reunite with her family.
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Another snippets tweak Google says it's toying with — in this instance mostly to make itself look less dumb when its answers misfire in relation to the specific question being asked — is to make it clearer when it's showing only a near match for a query, not an exact match.
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But the last film, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," which was released by Paramount in 2008, was considered a misfire by many fans, with one of Mr. Lucas's ideas — having Mr. Ford hide in an old refrigerator during a nuclear blast — mocked mercilessly online.
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But "Jump In" — which bizarrely ends with the model Kendall Jenner handing a police officer a Pepsi, inspiring smiles all around in a happy end to a demonstration that looked more like a street party the whole time — is not just a one-off misfire or an offensive aberration.
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But it also strikes me as a massive design misfire, to have players who are explicitly following the breadcrumbs laid out to have little to no interaction with such a huge part of the game, one meant to act as a randomization layer to the more guided story stuff.
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"Waymo's injunction motion is a misfire: there is no evidence that any of the 14,000 files in question ever touched Uber's servers, and Waymo's assertion that our multi-lens LIDAR is the same as their single-lens LIDAR is clearly false," said Angella Padilla, general counsel to Uber, in a statement.
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The first scratched image is a misfire — the husband mistook an image of a different woman for that of his wife — thus intensifying the narrative: so overwhelming was the husband's rage that he committed an act of violence against not only his wife's image, but that of an unrelated third party.
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Concerns The transition team's reference to the agency's most humiliating recent intelligence misfire -- over its conclusion that Iraq under Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction -- threatens to cast an early cloud over relations between the Trump White House and the CIA, whose assessments he'll need to make monumental decisions.
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Wonder Woman's precedents are pitiful at best: No female-led superhero movie has been a runaway hit — Supergirl (the 1984 version), Elektra, Barb Wire come to mind, while the promising Catwoman spin-off was a campy misfire that ultimately swept the 2005 Razzies (including a worst actress award for Halle Berry).
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The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks: Theresa May offered fellow EU leaders a "fair" deal on Thursday for compatriots living in Britain after Brexit, though her peers sounded sceptical and demanded more detail from a prime minister weakened by an electoral misfire two weeks ago.
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The WSJ says that the software updates will scale back the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) redesigning it "so it won't overpower other cockpit commands or misfire based on faulty readings from a single sensor," and will only activate once, for a short duration in the event that there is an issue.
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" Why it matters: "The episode in Hawaii appeared to be the Wireless Emergency Alerts system's most serious misfire since it became operational in 2012 to [use alerts pushed to cellphones to] modernize America's decades-old approach of using television and radio to notify the public about impending weather, safety and other hazards.
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"Waymo's injunction motion is a misfire: there is no evidence that any of the 14,000 files in question ever touched Uber's servers, and Waymo's assertion that our multi-lens LIDAR is the same as their single-lens LIDAR is clearly false," Uber general counsel Angela Padilla said in a statement sent to CNBC.
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She's played by Emily Browning, a searingly smart actor who is often the best thing in any project she's involved with (Bryan Fuller's fantasy misfire "American Gods," for example); I think I'm as excited as Helen is to see what effect Sierra's avocado-picking, goat-yoga–practicing free spirit has on Helen's life.
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To choose two examples from my list above: I think the second season of True Detective (which was released in the summer of 473) is an almost unwatchable misfire, a cluttered mess that never once shows any understanding of how to tell a complicated crime story in the time allotted to it.
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The idea here is to allow brands to test their video ad campaigns before committing the funds to roll them out more broadly – something that could help them to tweak the creative material, or even pull back on an ad rollout that could have ended up being a total misfire that draws consumer backlash.
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Since the critical and commercial misfire of "Victor Frankenstein" (he said his script was significantly changed on its way to the screen), Mr. Landis has refused to sell his screenplays to the major movie distributors unless they come "completely packaged" with deals for actors, directors and budgets, effectively preventing studio executives from "disfiguring" his writing.
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The opening-weekend misfire calls into question both the star power of Jolie — who has been largely absent from screens since the 2014 original — and the risky decision of Disney to release a sequel this long after that first movie, which opened to around $69.4 million in domestic ticket sales during its first weekend.
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RELATED: Democrats want Russian hacking intelligence declassified The transition team's reference to the agency's most humiliating recent intelligence misfire — over its conclusion that Iraq under Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction — threatens to cast an early cloud over relations between the Trump White House and the CIA, whose assessments he'll need to make monumental decisions.
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And it was those films — rather than the aberration of Love Actually (20183), or the misfire of Domino, which cut her hair into a shaggy pixie, or the overwrought mindfuck of The Jacket (both released in 2005) — that established the foundation of her image, as an actor who seemed most at home in decades other than our own.
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But the concerts focused on specific pockets of Mr. Simon's catalog: "Songs From 'The Capeman,'" — salvaging the strong songs from Mr. Simon's Broadway misfire; "Under African Skies," which paired Mr. Simon and his band with African and Brazilian musicians; and "American Tunes," storytelling songs in which Mr. Simon was joined by Grizzly Bear and the Roches.
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When Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were first approached by Sony Pictures in 2014 about making an animated Spider-Man movie, their answer was immediate: No. At the time, Sony had just face-planted hard with The Amazing Spider-Man 2, an expensive misfire that failed to justify why audiences should race out to see the fifth Spider-Man movie in just 12 years.
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Ironically, Spielberg just dipped back into family films for Disney with his first entry since his 2011 Peter Jackson collaboration The Adventures of Tintin, the currently-in-theaters The BFG; the Roald Dahl adaptation is now on pace to be the director's first bomb in a decade (and only the fourth such flop of his career), not to mention a rare recent misfire for Disney's marketing group).
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Downing Street later said that the prime minister was informed of the failed test when she took office: Greg Clark, the business secretary, told the Today program that the government never talks about nuclear tests — successful or not — but as the BBC's political editor points out, this has not always been the case: The opposition Labour party has called for answers about the possible cover-up surrounding the misfire.
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