Sentence examples for A lack of functioning from inspiring English sources

A lack of functioning bureaucracy and continuity has allowed Mayweather to over the years, as the SB Nation report noted, announce his opponent and formally begin drug testing for the fight, but then schedule the actual fight close enough to the announcement date to prevent serious drug testing.

The reason Katie and Arin broke up was because of a lack of functioning waggly bits, which appear to be very necessary for a good relationship (outside marriage anyway) according to the narrative of the documentary.

Such an approach would serve to crowdsource data on how people collectively build their city under different types of planning rules, mimicking emergent development patterns but, currently, there is a lack of functioning participative outdoor MAR tools.

Most troubling, however, is the absence of public infrastructure that has meant a lack of functioning water supply systems.

Niewenhuijsen et al. [ 41] concluded in a review that there was a lack of functioning instruments detecting the very specific deficits in mental disorders.

4 11– 14 Evaluation of the few existing programmes is hindered by a lack of functioning monitoring systems to quantify deaths and attrition due to loss to follow-up, which may be substantial.

Therefore, our study investigated a potential endogenous role of prion protein in synaptic signaling, the lack of which could resemble a lack-of-function phenotype in prion disease.

Thus, our data present essential new information possibly related to prion pathogenesis in which a functional synaptic role of PrPC is compromised due to its advanced conversion into PrPSC thereby creating a lack-of-function scenario.

Any mutation that results in a lack of function for a particular gene is called a "null" mutation.

Mutations can cause a lack of function by direct impairment of protein activity, by a lack of protein expression or by its incorrect trafficking.

In the Xinβ proteins of the placental mammals, there is a proline-rich region similar to that in the Mena/VASP-binding domain; however, absence of the C-terminal two acidic residues may suggest a lack of function.