…one of the two main political parties of the Republic of Ireland. Larger and traditionally more republican than its rival Fine Gael, it was formed in 1926 in opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 by Eamon de Valera together with some of the moderate members of Sinn Fein…
…causing a piece of machinery to revert to a safe condition in the event of a breakdown or malfunction…
…denoting a class, course, or system of grading in which the only two grades given are “pass” and “fail.”…
…(of a financial organization or other business) so important to the economy of a country that a government or central bank must take measures to prevent it from ceasing to trade or going bankrupt…
…a procedure by which a system automatically transfers control to a duplicate system when it detects a fault or failure…
