The outcome could be anything from outright failure to the crowning triumph of the tenor's career.

All have met with limited success or outright failure.

"We've had outright failure in a handful of satellites when they went off solar power during the night."

But this is the Bush administration, where incompetence and outright failure are rewarded with the nation's highest honors.

His back arched at the impact, force field close to outright failure.

There needs to be something, apart from Ofsted, standing between schools and outright failure.

Out of 65 tests, all others either were cancelled or were outright failures.

"We have not had any outright failures," he said of the firm's women employees.

"I have determined this to be an appropriate response to your extraordinary lapses and outright failures."

Temperamental and high-tech, these units have a history of woes, including outright failure.