If a society jeers at its good athletes and poets, it is deficient, and its practices should be reformed so that the deserving are rewarded in due proportion.
Last week, the monitor overseeing the settlement rejected the county's affordable-housing plan, saying it was deficient on details, accountability and enforcement.
However, it was deficient in recording patients' phone number and address, and father's name.
To the contrary, the idea that legal order is always a good thing, and that societies without it are deficient, is a familiar element of many anti-positivist views, beginning with Henry Maine's criticism of Austin on the ground that his theory would not apply to certain Indian villages.
But it is deficient in two respects.
"It is deficient as far as street frontage goes for one lot, let alone two," Mr. Schilt said.
There have been moves towards a better process now, but it was deficient in 2005, 2006 and 2007, Dannatt says.
Vitamin D is essential to this process, and, when it is deficient, the active transport of calcium stops.
He eventually reached a lawyer at Fort Riley, an Army captain, who, to Mr. Wright's astonishment, said he was under the impression that Mr. Wright had closed the case because it was "deficient".
Biomass is a promising CO2-neutral carbon source for fuel products, but it is deficient in hydrogen for that purpose.
