Sentence examples for weak specimen from inspiring English sources

Coaches have to make an example out of somebody, and who is more expendable than a relatively runty, slow and weak specimen who makes a living with his foot?

Different crack plane orientations lead to either crack deflection or delamination, resulting in increased fracture resistance in comparison to one remarkably weak specimen orientation.

3. The weak specimen orientation causes either crack deflection or crack delamination in the other testing directions and promotes an extrinsically caused toughness increase leading to a very high fracture toughness.

This can transform weak specimens into strong, lush plants.

Basc and other groups work with landowners on deer management plans, selecting weak specimens or impressive beasts past their prime to be shot.

During a 3-year survey in the Bay of Morlaix, France, >40 different stocks of oysters were tested with this tool, used for the diagnosis of healthy, resistant juveniles and recognition of weak specimens.

An antibiotic kills the weakest specimens in a population.

Darwinian selection might have weeded out the weaker specimens, but the traits that kept them alive for years haven't disappeared.

Degradation of the interfacial face/core fracture toughness is weak for specimens subjected to elevated moisture and more pronounced for sandwich specimens immersed in sea-water.

But it certainly hurts to spend day after day, as I did this fall, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center — where the incredibly brave wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan learn about walking and eating without their natural legs and arms — and to realize that the America for which they're fighting is led in so many arenas, especially the money one, by such weak, disappointing specimens.

We found strong cytoplasmic CIP2A immunoreactivity in 212 (40.4%) specimens, weak positivity in 222 (42.4%) specimens, and negative in 90 (17.2%).