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11Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed —   …
12Common-cause and special-cause — Type of variation Synonyms Common cause Chance cause Non assignable cause Noise Natural pattern Special cause Assignable cause Signal Unnatural pattern Common and special causes are the two distinct origins of variation in a process, as defined… …
13Too big to fail —  Ne doit pas être confondu avec Too Big To Fail : débâcle à Wall Street. « Too big to fail » (« trop gros pour tomber ») est un concept économique qui décrit la situation d une banque ou toute autre institution financière …
14lost cause — noun a defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable • Hypernyms: ↑campaign, ↑cause, ↑crusade, ↑drive, ↑movement, ↑effort * * * noun : a cause that has lost all prospect of success lost cause of the S …
15Good cause — is a denoting adequate or substantial grounds or reason to take a certain action, or to fail to take an action prescribed by law. What constitutes a good cause is usually determined on a case by case basis and is thus relative. [cite… …
16In a Good Cause— — is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in a 1951 issue of New Tales of Space and Time , and was reprinted in the collection Nightfall and Other Stories (1969). The story commences in the year 2755 of the Atomic …
17lost cause — n. an undertaking or movement that has failed or is certain to fail …
18Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …
19sink — sink1 verb (past sank; past participle sunk) 1》 go down below the surface of liquid; become submerged. ↘(with reference to a ship) go or cause to go to the bottom of the sea. 2》 fail and not be seen or heard of again. ↘cause to fail.… …
20burn — 1. v. & n. v. (past and past part. burnt or burned) 1 tr. & intr. be or cause to be consumed or destroyed by fire. 2 intr. a blaze or glow with fire. b be in the state characteristic of fire. 3 tr. & intr. be or cause to be injured or damaged by… …
