Sentence examples for defective forms from inspiring English sources

These defective forms of argument are called fallacies.

In Pynchon's previous novel, Against the Day (2006), a character, relaxing at an anarchist day spa, asks: "What are any of these 'utopian dreams' of ours but defective forms of time travel?" and Inherent Vice picks up where that question leaves off and plays games with time.

The most severe manifestation is that of acephalic sperm, while angled tail attachment, abaxial and multiflagellate sperm reflect additional defective forms.

The design can be extended to any viral pathogen that encodes trans-acting gene products, allowing complementation between replication-competent, defective forms.

This strain is engineered to produce defective forms of two redox enzymes that are critically involved in controlling the major reductive pathways in this bacterium: thioredoxin reductase (TrxB) and glutathione reductase (Gor).

To determine the virulence of the standard virus population (C-S8p260p3d), rescued by recombination between the two defective forms [5], [6], 21 mice were inoculated with 107 PFUs of C-S8p260p3d in the FP, the maximal dose that can be obtained with C-S8p260p3d.

It's because we would have had a defective form of fair value accounting.

Nearly all glioma cells have a defective form of the protein, which normally helps regulate cell growth.

A single misplaced letter, caused by random mutations, can lead the cells to produce a defective form of the glue.

For Arendt opinion is not a defective form of knowledge that should be transcended or left behind as soon as one is in possession of the truth.

Thus the set of instructions to produce the muscle protein, dystrophin, isn't read in full; this causes the body to produce a defective form of dystrophin that is too short to do its job.