Sentence examples for deficient but from inspiring English sources

A D usually means deficient but passing, which makes no sense to me.

Maybe wine was a blind spot not because I was morally, emotionally, intellectually, or aesthetically deficient but because I was biologically deficient.

He said the dorm, built 15 years ago, was structurally deficient, but he was reluctant to assign blame.

A linguist hired by the law school's Family Defense Clinic later determined that Ms. Brown's speech was not deficient, but simply "Gullah-like," common to parts of the South where freed slaves had kept alive the language of their forebears.

A higher-ranking official, Bradley D. Pearson, the flight standards manager in the region covering the Seattle-based airline, said the airline's program for tracking maintenance trends was deficient, but said his inspectors didn't find fault with it.

"We may be technically deficient but not immoral.

Then, in 1985, new technology flooded the marketplace with synthetic human growth hormone, safe from infectious contaminants and made in quantities enough to treat not just the truly pituitary-deficient, but all small-comers.

Here we report that RTA performance surprisingly drops under not only water-deficient but also water-excess conditions.

Two functional sub-domains are SNP-free or relatively SNP-deficient but contain many disease implicated mutants.

Indeed, adoptive transfer of T-bet-deficient, but not wild-type, CD4+ T cells to Rag2 −/− mice improved insulin sensitivity.

Histochemically, these vessels have been termed 'strongly, succinate dehydrogenase-reactive' since they are COX-deficient, but intensely succinate dehydrogenase-reactive.