"We must appear to be fighting against failure, exploring every option right up until the last."

The unit featured redundancy to protect against failure of individual systems.

But the roll-out of standard models across the country offers no greater protection against failure.

At some point, that effort becomes so great you never actually ship anything, which of course is the very best protection against failure.

All we're doing is indemnifying against failure and standing behind our success rates in the most ultimate way.

Common sense spoke out as if to armor him against inevitable failure.

"You can't take out insurance against failure in art."

Don't I need some reserve as a buffer against betrayal or failure?

It is all very well to speak of stringent controls, but you cannot guard against human failure.

It is an insurance contract which covers a number of items against mechanical failure.