Sentence examples for weak to compete from inspiring English sources

The children were avid gatherers of any mollusk they could find, but they were simply too small and weak to compete with the adult women, who loped and scooped and cracked their way across the reef.

Representative Keith Ellison, Democrat of Minnesota, said the co-ops would be "too small and too weak to compete with insurance companies that have been in the game for a long time".

Techniques for 3-D-printing metal have long been too expensive and slow, and the parts produced too weak, to compete with traditional manufacturing but that is changing, and fast.

The pendulum swung from one extreme — telling girls that they were too weak to compete — to the other extreme portraying girls as just smaller versions of boys: just as interested in competitive sports, just as likely to benefit from the long training required to become elite college athletes.

Rather than bolstering a disadvantaged economic sector, they contend, the loans amount to gifts for a minority that is too weak to compete.

Indeed, many "pan- Bcl2 inhibitors" suffer from a lack of specificity or are simply too weak to compete with native high-affinity BH3-only proteins for pro-survival BH3 binding pockets.

Handicaps are designed to rank players and to make it easier for weak players to compete against strong ones.

It also said that: "energy suppliers face weak incentives to compete on price and non-price factors in retail markets, due in particular to inactive customers, supplier behaviour and/or regulatory interventions".

When he established Mossbourne, there was a shortage of secondary places in Hackney, especially for boys, and most schools in the area were in a weak position to compete with this brand-new institution in its striking building, launched with the blessing of the then prime minister, Tony Blair.

According to this view, attempts by a weaker navy to compete head-to-head with a stronger one in battleship construction simply wasted resources which could have been better invested in attacking the enemy's points of weakness.

And their economies are far too weak, so far, to compete with even the poorest of those in the EU.Moreover, Kosovo has hit them both hard.