But either his own misfiring or solid defense left him unsuccessful.

If there was a misfiring, the astronauts might miss Earth and be doomed.

Historians believe the humid weather contributed to the double misfiring.

It has since been postulated that the moisture from the humid weather of the day contributed to the double misfiring.

The recent misfiring of the Trident II may prove a blessing.

A touch hole lock was added to prevent accidental misfiring when the breech was open.

And more analysis was needed to pinpoint Venus's erratic play or to detail what was wrong with her misfiring serves.

Catheter ablation is a way to get into your heart-without surgery-and fix the misfiring.

It was silly, an optic-neurological misfiring.

Blanke believes that a misfiring of this region is responsible for OBEs.

Instead, he attributes religion to a "misfiring" of something else that is adaptively useful; namely, a child's evolved tendency to believe its parents.

The source of this misfiring may be a result of impaired inhibitory mechanisms during muscle contraction.

And they say the most likely cause of the sinking is the misfiring of one of the Kursk's torpedoes.

Psychiatrists believe increasingly that panic is the result of a misfiring in a suffocation alarm system at the base of the brain.

To make matters worse, one of my sparking-plugs was in trouble again and there was intermittent misfiring in the engine.

"Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful," Dawkins wrote.

Also, Sabatini got some assistance from the repeated misfiring of Martinez's sole weapon, her full-bodied forehand.

It didn't seem to be clear that Sam and sabotage had caused the misfiring; apparently the Council had associated it rather with the timing test.

Experts believe that the eyelid twitching of blepharospasm is caused by the misfiring of certain cells in one area of the brain.

Well-intentioned Schnabel wades out his depth with a misfiring, miscast saga of Palestinian womanhood.

So the victim of the tom-cat's sexual frustration may now be eaten, as the final act of this gruesome misfiring of the feline reproductive sequence.

One of the most common is the dopamine hypothesis, which attributes psychosis to the mind's faulty interpretation of the misfiring of dopaminergic neurons.

Sometimes, for example, a football running back can experience a "misfiring" of motor units and end up simultaneously contracting the quads and hamstrings during a hard sprint.

Dawkins advocates the "theory of religion as an accidental by-product - a misfiring of something useful" as for example the mind's employment of intentional stance.

Engine misfiring is prevented via variable valve lift at exhaust, which opens exhaust valves during the intake stroke, which increases engine air temperature.

He tried to clear the gun, but it misfired again.

Whatever they had planned misfired when you got in the way.

The bomb, which may have been there for more than a month, had misfired.

The Ravens have not played a game and they are already misfiring.

This one misfired, and Bradley never got a second chance.

He aimed the gun at her head, and it misfired.

The gun misfired, however, and the judge was not hurt.

Her brain must be misfiring, that was the only explanation.

He went to shoot another man, who was there with his wife, but the gun misfired.

"The only explanation I can come up with is that the gun misfired."

The minute those rockets misfired I was certain we were dead.

The two misfired on several attempts last week against Pittsburgh.

With 15 minutes 32 seconds remaining, Smith misfired from close range.

The next time the Jets misfired was even more frustrating.

But the shot misfired, starting him on the same sort of night he endured in Game 1.

"You were taught what to do if a shell misfired."

They tried to shoot him in the chest, but the gun misfired.

Perhaps the cartridge was too old; any rate, it had misfired.

He even misfired on what should have been a follow dunk.

I don't know if it misfired or hit what she was carrying in her hands.

Lawrence then pulled out a second pistol which also misfired.

But this part of the plan had also misfired.

But all attempts to focus the image more sharply misfired.

It was a hot, late August day when one of my casts misfired.

That put the Jets in good field position after they had misfired repeatedly themselves.

He did not want a misfire with his single shot.

It is used to clear the gun after a misfire.

In a moment 1 understood both the plan and its misfire.

And I have heard nothing as to its misfire, so we shall leave well enough alone.

He was right there to seize upon their every misfire.

All the same, the string of misfires this season is growing long.

As it happens, she is also the film's biggest misfire.

That is, a pretty good one, especially once you edit out the misfires.

It made a lot more sense to use a new gun than risk having the old one misfire at a critical moment.

The continual misfires were the main reason that the team shot 36.4 percent for the game.

And thanks to the series' thoroughness, the misfires are here too.

She didn't think there was much danger of a misfire.

He is convinced that his misfires from the perimeter are not the problem.

Which among the estimated 80,000 genes misfire to such consequence?

The site also includes news about her culinary hits and misfires.

It was just the latest in a string of misfires by the Navy.

If the gun misfires on the very first shot of the game then something spectacular and unusual has happened.

They were still going to have an appalling number of misfires, but he'd done all he could to minimize them.

There are a number of misfires and no truly classic episodes.

Wouldn't do to have a misfire due to blood in the barrel.

He has had his share of misfires in Britain.

So much glory (and the odd misfire), all written in water.

Later I realized that this preliminary glow was some kind of misfire.

The danger of a misfire was greater over water.

Usually her outfits come together quite easily but there has been the odd misfire.