Sentence examples for a defect to from inspiring English sources

It is rare for a defect to threaten people's safety on a daily basis, Mr. O'Neill said.

The presence of even one incompletely punched chip in a run of several thousand tabulating cards is in most cases too great a defect to be tolerated.

Men who age are "distinguished", the years deemed to confer wisdom; signs of ageing in a woman are considered unsightly, a defect to be remedied by surgery.

But neither Mr. McArthur, a 22-year veteran at Fitzgerald, nor Albert Briggs, the service director, nor Jack Fitzgerald, who owns 31 car sales franchises, has ever reported a defect to the government.

It appears that only the ultrasonic method enables the depth of a defect to be determined.

(See especially Russell (1923).) A key attribute of the ideal language is said to be its precision; the vagueness of natural language is a defect to be eliminated.

A to H, evolution of the infarcted fraction in a segment (number in blue) as a function of its relative level (number in black) when the segment circumferentially travels through a defect-to-normal region edge; A to D, in case of an ideal tomography and E to H, for an altered resolution.

Vergeer was paralyzed from the waist down as an 8-year-old as a result of an operation to remove a birth defect to a vein on her spinal cord.

The binding results indicate that a sufficient number of chondrocytes can adhere to a cartilage defect to produce a matrix in a three dimensional structure.

Once a few elite athletes in a sport defect to gain an advantage over their cooperating competitors, they too must defect (even if they only think others are cheating), leading to a cascade of defection down through the ranks.

In general, however, weakness is termed "central" if due to a defect prior to the neuromuscular junction or "peripheral" if due to a defect beyond the junction [ 16].