Sentence examples for defective as a from inspiring English sources

The book is defective as a memoir; it is something else in fact.

Unable to experience or mime emotions, she feels defective as a person.

Both rad50− tlc1− and rad51− tlc1− strains gave rise to survivors, but a triply mutant rad50− rad51− tlc1− strain was as defective as a rad52− tlc1− strain at generating post-senescent survivors.

"Without resolving at a full hearing many of the questions raised by this record, I believe the grant of a permanent waiver is defective as a matter of process, policy and law," he said in a prepared statement.

Recall Korsgaard's artifactual analogy: a chair is something you sit on, and so a chair is defective when you can't sit on it — and of course it's defective as a whole, because its job, as a whole chair, is to be a seat.

I believed I must have been seriously defective as a person.

Federal law prohibits anyone who has been adjudicated as a "mental defective," as well as anyone involuntarily committed to a mental institution, from buying a firearm.

Federal laws bar anyone who has been "adjudicated as a mental defective," as well as those involuntarily committed to a mental health facility, from buying a gun.

Her mother and daughter had been labelled defective as well — the latter, still an infant, without any testing — providing evidence that Carrie's reported shortcomings were hereditary.

That need not render it defective as an account of political obligation, but it does entail that we should not take the phrase "political obligation" to be synonymous with the phrase "a duty to obey the law simpliciter," but only with the phrase "a citizen's (or member's) duty to obey the law".

We show that whilst FLRT1 expression results in a ligand-dependent elevation of MAP kinase activity, a mutant version of FLRT1, defective as an FGFR1 kinase substrate (Y3F-FLRT1), has the property of eliciting ligand-independent chronic activation of the MAP kinase pathway which is suppressed by pharmacological inhibition of either FGFR1 or Src kinase.