Sentence examples for rather deficient from inspiring English sources

Few people would have watched it live on German TV – a self-deprecating fan banner greeting "the four viewers on Sky" might not have been too far off the truth – but the game between the billionaire-sponsored village club and the Red Bull-owned newcomers was entertaining enough despite being rather deficient in terms of historical resonance or, if you will, authenticity.

"I was rather deficient in my knowledge of French opera," Jellinek said, and when he went on to attribute this deficiency to the Francophobia by which Hungary was gripped between the world wars, I felt yet another stir of childhood memory.

Moreover, taking into account the fact that the T. reesei secretome is rather deficient in β-glucosidases, it is particularly relevant to engineer microorganisms that are self-sufficient with regard to this type of enzyme activity.

However, if children with immune deficiencies are excluded, PBB is associated with an augmented rather than deficient innate immune system [ 34].

Growth defects overwhelmingly represent deficient rather than excess growth, and dozens of genetic growth failure syndromes have been identified.

In De Civitate Dei, Augustine emphasizes the privative nature of evil by referring to the will's pursuit of inferior goods as being a deficient rather than efficient cause [De Civitate Dei, XII.7].

However, rather than leptin deficient, obese persons often have hyperleptinemia specified as "selective leptin resistance" associated with MetS, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) [13], [14].

Nonetheless, that anchoring is present among the majority of preschool children suggests that the abnormal anchoring of individuals with dyslexia is more likely a result of truly deficient rather than of less developed anchoring mechanisms, because otherwise the deficit may have been expected to diminish by adolescence, which was not the case in our previous studies [5], [31].

There is a likelihood, as previously proposed, that it is not the symbolic system itself that is deficient rather the ability to associate between the two systems.

It is likely that some patients in our study had low or high weight centiles that were accompanied by a comparably low or high height centile; that is, they were simply small or tall rather than nutritionally deficient or overweight.

Rather, even Glut1-deficient B-ALL cells remained dependent on non-glucose sources for TCA intermediates.