The results were impressive, but marred by the death of at least one patient because there was insufficient material to continue treatment.

The asteroids were detritus from the collapsing protostar, insufficient material to coalesce into a planet.

She declined to put herself forward for the 2008 Emmy Awards, citing insufficient material in the role.

A player whose time runs out automatically loses, unless the opposing player has insufficient material to checkmate, in which case the game is a draw.

Pakistan, most analysts believed, had insufficient material and experience to make a plutonium bomb.

The powder X-ray diffraction pattern could not be recorded as insufficient material was available.

There was insufficient material within this film to do the subject justice.

Or the desperate strategies of a writer with insufficient material?

There is insufficient material available for further verification and study.

Some tactics can lead to draw by stalemate, threefold repetition, or insufficient material to checkmate.