Sentence examples for deficient skills from inspiring English sources

In 1832, when Verdi, nearing 19, was rejected for admission to the Milan Conservatory, the examiners cited deficient skills at the keyboard as a reason.

Therefore, ebooks designed to facilitate supportive adult reading strategies may improve emergent literacy skills, especially in children with deficient skills at school entry.

To evaluate tree-thinking ability, the frequencies of different misconception and deficient skills were summarized and compared between pretest and posttest responses from the UET assessment administered in F09 and S10.

For example, determining relationships by using branch tip proximity (i.e., "reading across the tips") or the number of nodes between lineages (i.e., "node counting") not only signify deficient skills in how to read a tree, but also a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of common ancestry that is the core of evolutionary theory.

They talk about their resentment at arriving in college unprepared, with deficient skills and in need of remediation.

"There never was any reason to believe that employment would bounce back, as CBO had previously forecast, in the wake of the financial meltdown, and no reason now to think that the problem lies with deficient skills for any class of workers," Galbraith told HuffPost.

Kruger and Dunning (1999) showed that those who perform poorly in logical reasoning or grammar exercises vastly overestimate their abilities and have deficient metacognitive skills in comparison with their more skilled counterparts [54].

The present study demonstrates that stressful life events and deficient coping skills are important risk factors for suicidal behavior in young students and that personal coping skills play a prominent role influencing the probability of having suicidal behavior among those recently exposed to stressful life events.

Despite my deficient language skills, I was gripped every minute of the way.

I was happy to see him go, though I suspected that his departure was unrelated to deficient interpersonal skills.

A case in point: a doctor at a pediatric clinic told the mother of an aggressive, hyperactive preschool-age boy that her deficient parenting skills were to blame.