Sentence examples for insufficient English from inspiring English sources

Naturally, I was terrified of talking to Americans on their doorsteps, what with my insufficient English, devoid of articles and contaminated with a thick foreign accent, but I craved the ambulatory freedom between the doors.

This past year, as I was assisting my son in applying to college, I discovered through contacts with an Hispanic acquaintance that insufficient English mastery tends to exclude Hispanic parents from information necessary to more than superficially participate in their children's college application process.

Exclusion criteria were as follows: medical instability (as determined by a psychiatrist), lack of capacity to give informed consent, history of neurological disease (e.g. tumour, head trauma, epilepsy), medical illness known to impact cognitive and brain function (e.g. cancer) and/or clinically assessed IQ below 70 and/or insufficient English to participate in the research protocol.

Exclusion criteria for both patients and controls were medical instability (as determined by a psychiatrist), history of neurological disease (e.g. tumour, head trauma, epilepsy), medical illness known to impact cognitive and brain function (e.g. cancer), intellectual and/or developmental disability, insufficient English for neuropsychological assessment and current substance dependence.

The parents having insufficient English to complete the assessment requirements.

No-one was excluded on grounds of insufficient English.

Women aged <16 years with serious medical or psychiatric problems or with insufficient spoken English to communicate by telephone were excluded.

8 Our data suggest that trigger factors for recognising such vulnerability in patients with advanced illness include social deprivation, insufficient spoken English to communicate needs effectively, non-cancer illness, multiple comorbidities, lack of support from the family and community, and new migrants and those with uncertain legal status, such as asylum seekers.

Excluded women were those who did not have a choice regarding their analgesic options (for known preexisting conditions), had contraindications to analgesia, or had self-assessed English insufficiency (insufficient to complete the questionnaires, or use the intervention material which were written in English).

Insufficient command of English so that outcomes cannot be reasonably assessed in English.

Academic levels in the U.A.E.'s high schools are "insufficient," especially in English and mathematics, according to Mr. Fox, who was previously executive director of the California Postsecondary Education Commission.