Sentence examples for faulty start from inspiring English sources

By now the horse Brento had – to general dismay – been injured by a faulty start and would not be running.

After a faulty start in January, Bill Clinton's second launch of his ex-presidency fared much better yesterday in central Harlem.

After a delayed start to the race in Daegu – the field were shown a green card due to a faulty start – Greene kept his cool and crossed the line in a time of 48.26sec.

Between those two races comes Jody Cundy, who was deprived of a likely gold in the men's C4/5 time trial yesterday after officials decreed his wheel slip on starting was rider error and not, as Cundy and his coaches insisted, due to a faulty start gate.

Greene held his nerve after two aborted starts, the athletes having been called back to their blocks after a first faulty start and then told to stand up again before the race got under way.

That belief was evident even when the Swansea Harrier struggled to get straight into the groove after the unsettling experience of two faulty starts.

The athletes were made to wait for 12 long minutes between coming out on to the track and starting the race, because of the two faulty starts.

After 61 ms time, the faulty phase current starts increasing and voltage signal starts decreasing in magnitude.

In Turkey, they slept on the streets, waiting for a smugglers' boat that had a faulty engine and started drifting part-way into the perilous crossing.

After some frantic first-act route-finding, it relaxes into its sunny, pleasingly detailed universe, as Cook's boy-racer Dusty – given an unusual character flaw in a faulty gear shaft – starts a new career patrolling a national park.

As a measure of the improvement in the toll collection system, which had bedeviled drivers since its start with faulty equipment and erroneous violation notices, Mr. McGreevey noted that two years ago E-ZPass issued one million, often wrong, violation notices a month.