Sentence examples for had been deficient from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ricketts conceded that the "sequencing" of his lobbying key public officials had been deficient.

He said The Times's coverage had been "deficient by any reasonable standards of fairness".

The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the case based on the argument, accepted by the Ninth Circuit, that Mr. Belmontes's lawyer had been deficient in not presenting enough information that might have mitigated the sentence.

I have always been a thinker, and feeling is what had been deficient in my life.

Schlozman and other Bush administration appointees in the Justice Department claimed that federal law enforcement authorities had been deficient in prosecuting cases of voter fraud.

What she and her colleagues found was that those women who had been deficient in vitamin D at the time of their breast cancer diagnosis were 73% more likely to die from breast cancer than those with sufficient vitamin D at the time of diagnosis.

All the proposals have been deficient, and we have no movement in the right direction.

"I think psychologically preparing the public is something we've been deficient at," Mr. Larsen said.

"We have to take investigations against guerrillas, which have been deficient, and elevate them," he said.

Investment in other crucial areas of the economy, including the electrical network, has been deficient and in much of the country there are regular power failures.

But this month, Beijing reported that Uyghur Muslim "terrorists" in Xinjiang had tried to blow up a plane while, in Tibet, Beijing says the past week's events have all been the result of a plot by the Dalai Lama - which indicates that its intelligence and suppression of "splittists" has been deficient, to say the least.