Sentence examples for poor foil from inspiring English sources

Cruz bubbled up from a weak field of rivals, and Tuesday confirmed his emerging reputation as an impressively poor foil to Trump; in four of the five races on Tuesday, Cruz failed to reach even second place, losing to John Kasich, who has yet to win beyond his own state of Ohio.

Heating of carbon-rich, but oxygen-poor Cu foil in H2 environment resulted in covering the foil surface by residual carbon which then acted as active sites for multilayer graphene growth.

Chris foiled Poor Chris Moyles - and we never thought we would say that.

TiO2 NTAs on titanium foils have poor mechanical properties, that is, they are easily cracked and detached when subjected to stress on titanium foils [25].

Poor-quality photos can foil this method, and the system still fingers innocent look-alikes.

These attributes are highlighted in deformation processing of Mg AZ31B, an alloy of commercial significance but noted for its poor workability, into sheet and foil forms.

On carbon-poor, but oxygen-rich Cu foil high quality graphene growth was promoted when the heating was carried out under Ar/H2 environment.

The sensors without the polymeric binder (CGMR = 100%) reveal rather poor adhesion to the flexible foils and therefore cannot be measured.

With his guileless smile and shrinking posture, John Patrick Hayden telegraphs the soft center that makes Tesman such a poor match and such an ideal foil for Hedda.

He argues that Reynolds's strengths, such as its aluminium foil business, make a poor fit with Alcoa, which has no consumer brands itself.

And head coach Ziemek Wojciechowski added: "This is the first good result for our men's foil team after a relatively poor beginning to the season.