Sentence examples for are not defective from inspiring English sources

The Daisy Manufacturing Company has maintained that its air guns are not defective, and the National Rifle Association has urged its members to oppose any action.

"Let me state categorically -- tires supplied to Ford Motor Company, and other customers, are safe, and the tires are not defective," John T. Lampe, Bridgestone/Firestone's chairman, said in a letter to Jacques A. Nasser, Ford's chief executive.

In a statement on Tuesday, Chrysler again maintained that the Jeeps are not defective and are among the safest of a group of similar sport utility vehicles made by other manufacturers.

"Let me state categorically: tires supplied to Ford Motor Company, and other customers, are safe, and the tires are not defective," John T. Lampe, Bridgestone/Firestone's chairman and chief executive, said in a letter to Jacques A. Nasser, Ford's chief executive and president.

Defenders of sociobiology reply that at least some aspects of human behaviour must be biologically influenced (because competition with other species would select for this trait); that evolutionary explanations of human behaviour are not defective in principle but should be evaluated in the same way as other scientific hypotheses; and that sociobiology does not imply strict biological determinism.

Also, osm-9 mutants are not defective in chemotaxis to acetic acid (data not shown).

Based on our results, we propose that the key defect underlying the hyperphagic behavior in PWS is not defective regulation of energy homeostasis as had been proposed [19], [20], but rather defective control of meal termination.

What was not defective was the success.

Zimmer said its investigation had determined that the product was not defective.

The judge ruled that the negligence claim was unfounded because the weapon was not defective.

A ruling by a federal agency that a product is not defective usually makes lawsuits against the manufacturer more difficult.