Sentence examples for ineffective barrier from inspiring English sources

And two defenders proved to be an ineffective barrier, even to a scuffed shot from Fred which landed in the bottom corner of the net.

We were made to stand in an anteroom, surrounded by four doors that acted as a pretty ineffective barrier between us and the ferocious stench of sweat, rubbish, and excrement fusing together in the air.

Local lymph node involvement may be an ineffective barrier to tumor spread, as the incidence of distant metastases is 50% higher in patients with infiltrated lymph nodes.

However, several studies indicate that Robertsonian type rearrangements restrict gene flow [ 11, 49, 50, 52], but with extreme interbreeding this type of rearrangement may be an ineffective barrier [ 11].

"French is not in danger and my responsibility as minister is not to put up ineffective barriers against other languages but to give all our citizens the means to make it live on," Pellerin said.

This finding is interesting because theoretical work suggests BDM incompatibilities are ineffective barriers to gene flow, especially when migration rates are high (Gavrilets, 1997; Gompert et al., 2012), but incompatibilities in which all hybrid genotypes are under selection more effectively limit gene flow (Gavrilets, 1997).

But over the next three decades, according to two internal agency investigations, the commission approved a succession of faulty or ineffective fire barrier materials.

Location Directly off I-95, with its back against the highway's largely ineffective sound barrier, J House's location on the old Post Road (now East Putnam Avenue) betrays its previous life as a roadside chain motel.

The present report is the first to show an exaggerated increase in EVLW among chronic alcoholic ARDS patients, correlated with measures reported to indicate lung capillary permeability (lung permeability index), supporting the hypothesis that an ineffective permeability barrier may predispose susceptible alcoholic patients to heightened development of ARDS.

In an initial attempt to mitigate the saltwater intrusions and protect the community, a seawall was constructed, however, over time this barrier became ineffective.

Selecting an effective therapy is mandatory, because ineffective drugs lower the barrier for the virus to escape the remaining compounds and tend to result in a treatment failure after a short period.