To shut down the factory meant great loss and apparent failure.

For Alex the end of the visit would mean failure.

It would mean not only failure, but sudden death as well if he were to go down and land on that field now.

Loss of the bridge might mean failure for the entire operation.

The doctor meant failure, the end of his mission.

One peculiarity of the development office is that its success can also mean failure.

But not getting the two-thirds over the override also means failure of another sort, he added.

Not even, asked something within her, if it means the success or failure of your mission?

Less than that would mean failure to get free from Earth.

An abortion means failure on the father's part, for he has often made off in a funk.