Sentence examples for defective the from inspiring English sources

Should the wiring in an appliance prove defective, the user could get a potent, even lethal shock.

"If you lose your beeper or if it's defective, the hospital won't order you a new one," Dr. Schoenfeld said.

Unless the sweater was defective, the writer has taken advantage in a way that would put retailers out of business, if everyone did the same.

When a warrant is defective, the individual will never know that his rights were violated and the government will never face the consequences of its defective warrant.

If the arbitrators here should decide wrongly that the goods were or were not defective, the injustice done is essentially only to the parties concerned.

Leadership in Brent social services department prior to the Victoria Climbié tragedy was "seriously defective", the council's chief executive has told the inquiry into her death.

The molecular difference between the defective and the normal nuclei and the effect of the defective nuclei on the pathogenicity of this fungus remain to be investigated.

The model's spectrum bears more similarities to the non-defective spectrum than to the defective spectrum: the correlation distance between the model and the non-defective sample was 0.10 whereas it was 0.33 for the defect sample.

By the 1930s, British and American programmes for the sterilisation of the "genetically defective" inspired the development of Nazi Rassenhygiene.

In the body, the defective gene upsets the killing chemistry that occurs inside healthy neutrophils.

If the drill cuts on and off, the cord is defective near the switch.