Word: defectively
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...offense was the major defect. It could not penetrate the middle against many teams, and it was unable to play a controlled game. Too often the team lapsed into perimeter passing and settled for poor outside bombs...
...turn down. But too many M.P.s of all parties resented the attempt to end the debate. Then the Tory shadow spokesman on devolution, Francis Pym, proposed an alternative-an all-party convention to discuss the whole devolution matter. The adroit Tory maneuver may have encouraged wavering Laborites to defect on the guillotine vote...
Women should defect en masse. Without women the church could propagate nothing...
Grau's excellence of craft disguises the book's principal defect: Evidence of Love is not truly a novel but a linking of short stories. The author's chief concern is to render her characters' responses to intense moments of their lives - one of the working definitions of the short story of the '40s and '50s. Her far-flung locations are not textured settings but flimsy sets where the author vainly at tempts to stage her quiet drama of rootlessness and disaffection...
...believe that epidemiology and evolution have been grossly underrepresented in the professional as well as in the public discussions of the problem. My credentials for correcting this defect are modest, for my research shifted away from medical microbiology a good many years ago, and since then my contact with the field has depended mostly on textbook writing. But I hope the information I offer will encourage deeper exploration of these topics by experts in future symposia...