Sentence examples for been defective from inspiring English sources

Our own poll (see chart) suggests that many voters do not think the president's response has been defective.

Though some of the machines may have been defective, it appears that most of the problems were caused by improperly trained workers and by voter confusion.

The investigation found that the targeting system — the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System — had not been defective, a spokesman for the NATO-led coalition force, Lt. Col. Todd Vician of the United States Air Force, said Tuesday.

The valve-cover gaskets may have allowed oil into the spark-plug wells and the wiper-motor bracket seals may have been defective, causing water to enter the engine compartment and sit in the spark-plug wells, both of which would require new coils.

Merck & Company said on Friday that an unknown number of people in as many as 27 nations, including 60,000 youngsters in Brazil, might need new shots to prevent infection with the hepatitis A virus because vaccines they received might have been defective.

That would be a serious problem for the commission, where officials still harbor painful memories of losing a string of appeals against blocked mergers early in the past decade after the European Court of Justice ruled that those decisions had been defective.

But it, too, was defective.

This is defective corporate governance".

The system, itself, is defective.

Matthew claimed it was defective.

The button, in this case, was defective.