Occasionally, students whose performance on the exam, while passing overall, is highly deficient in one area or another may be given a Conditional Pass.
I don't like to jam, because I am highly deficient in my scales, but I am able to pick within arpeggios well enough to develop a melody through the selfish nonsense that characterizes most impromptu guitar work.
China watchers have a tendency to overstate the sophistication of Beijing's foreign policy and ambitions, but the truth is that China's foreign policy is highly deficient.
Yet despite the health potential of vitamin D, as many as half of all adults and children are said to have less than optimum levels and as many as 10 percent of children are highly deficient, according to a 2008 report in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The suggestion that on average Asians are highly deficient in personal characteristics relative to others, especially blacks and Latinos but also even whites, is seemingly indefensible on any objective grounds.
Nolan published a paper in July indicating that Alzheimer's patients are highly deficient in their levels of macular pigment, in addition to having worse vision.
More surprisingly, NF-kappaB responses were near normal in TRAF2 and TRAF5 double-KO MEFs, IKKgamma KO MEFs, TAB2 KO MEFs, and IRAK4 KO MEFs but were highly deficient in TRAF6 KO MEFs and IRAK1 KO HEK293 cells.
Further, accurate data on carbon sequestration and stocks are highly deficient especially from tropical forests of India where diverse forest communities exist due to highly variable climatic and geographical conditions.
When using myIDP to conduct your self-assessment, you'll be asked to rate your proficiency in each skill and knowledge area on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is "highly deficient" and 5 is "highly proficient".
Plato eventually seeks to show that someone with a healthy, harmonious soul wouldn't lie, kill, or steal, but most commentators consider his argument to that effect to be highly deficient.
