During the major leagues' early decades, players on various teams occasionally attempted strikes, which routinely failed when their jobs were sufficiently threatened.

Similarly, children and adolescents routinely fail to understand their rights during a police interrogation.

Still, the Islanders came often because the Sharks routinely failed to set up sustained drives.

Radios routinely fail and are quickly replaced in the middle of a battle.

Others say the department routinely fails to get to the bottom of the problems on the factory floor.

When members of private clubs routinely fail to read the assignment, it can irritate those who do.

The agency routinely fails to meet deadlines meant to move foster children toward adoption, city statistics show.

And the experts in all fields routinely fail to predict major turning points.

Foreign student groups complain that Russian cops routinely fail to protect them.

Agency officials told the university that its review board routinely failed to check whether the research was being conducted properly.