Sentence examples for mere defect from inspiring English sources

A clear and unambiguous political extremism is reimagined as a mere defect of character.

But in his ALI speech, Justice Stevens connected Bush v. Gore to gerrymandering cases, arguing that "if a mere defect in the standards governing voting recount practices can violate the state's duty to govern impartially," then "surely" it's unconstitutional to draw "bizarre boundaries of electoral districts in order to enhance the political power of the dominant party".

These are not mere character defects; they have a bearing on the decisions the de facto leader of any action in Syria would take.

It found that "a mere mental disease or defect, though it may constitute a form of insanity known to and recognized by medical science, does not excuse one for committing a crime".

Hence the striking cellular defects of ESCRT mutants during starvation can be mostly attributed to their block in membrane protein degradation, rather than the mere and rather partial sorting defects for vacuolar hydrolases.

Goff was able to show the defects had amounted to a mere £100 and had been immediately rectified.

We need to stop treating the defects of free trade as mere imperfections to a fundamentally sound policy and realize that free trade itself is the problem, and should be ended.

Using this growth at low concentrations, and lack of it at higher concentrations, we have been able to grade the transporter defects, which is more informative than a mere growth assay at lower concentrations.

As noted above, neurologists are finding that the anatomic and physiological differences underlying ADHD appear to be mere variations in the timing of brain development, not outright defects.

We concluded that defects in retinal lamination and photoreceptor differentiation were not a mere consequence of p53-driven cell death.

The reflex to blame women's behaviour for birth defects partakes of this superstitious world governed by "sympathies," where the mere sight of a startling creature could prompt a pregnant woman to give birth to a monster.