Sentence examples for was so deficient from inspiring English sources

Research by the Ministry of Justice which was supposed to back this up was so deficient it was not even published," he said.

Our last prime minister was so deficient in language – and so distrusting of it – he actually memorably ran out of words on occasion (when interviewed by Mark Riley over saying "shit happens" about the death of an Australian soldier).

Schaverien has, of course, accounts of children who enjoyed boarding school: though some patients inform her that that was because home life was so deficient in love or structure that the necessary attachments were better made at school.

When I visited the Hermitage during a long Russian winter some years go, many rooms were closed, and the heating system was so deficient that docents sat guard in coats and gloves.

That's one of the reasons why it is so deficient in intelligence.

"The state is so deficient in the way it teaches New Jersey history," he said.

Their histories are so compromised and drug testing is so deficient that any spectacular performances bring immediate skepticism.

Drug testing in Olympic sports is so deficient that there is no certain way to tell whether athletes are using illicit substances to enhance their performances.

At the end of this not-very-short day what matters – or irritates – most is that an imaginative idea should be so deficient in content.

Thorpe, who has been outspoken against the use of drugs, said the despairing thing was that the current urine-based testing procedures were so deficient that innocent athletes can no longer prove their innocence.

"Kirsten said she doesn't understand what Bloomberg finds in her that is so deficient," said a close political associate who spoke on condition of anonymity because he did not want to be seen as betraying a confidence.