Sentence examples for insufficient defence from inspiring English sources

Le Brocquy's charm and modesty may have seemed insufficient defence against the vitriolic public abuse that accompanied his hometown rejection in 1952, but his inner strength was obvious early in life.

26 27 Recent studies support the link between insufficient cellular defence towards oxidative DNA damage and increased susceptibility to cancer development.

Reasons may be an insufficient immune defence that lowers the minimal infective dose, as the immune system has not yet fully developed.

As there were insufficient forces for the defence of the former front line at Narva in July, the German army detachment began preparations for withdrawal to the Tannenberg defence line in the Sinimäed Hills 16 kilometres from Narva.

It had delivered some counter-attacking successes, not least at Old Trafford, but at White Hart Lane it had been insufficient to pick apart massed defence.

Such a low virus concentration is generally insufficient to breach the normal defence barrier of the host's airways and, hence, is unlikely to cause clinical infection in the affected individual.

Furthermore, insufficient information of the immune defence mechanism against HIV-1 infection makes vaccine development an even more challenging task.

Defences, may be insufficient to prevent reactive oxygen species generation and the associated apoptosis.

The crew was insufficient to man all the defences, and some forts had to be abandoned.

The convictions – in a delayed judgment after a three-week trial in Paris last June – overruled the French state prosecutor who had joined the defence in arguing that there was insufficient evidence against either man.

In such pathological conditions the existing antioxidant defence mechanism in cells will be insufficient to counteract the H2O2-mediated damage.