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  • noun Plural form of deficience.

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Examples

  • Tremont failed to carry out its fidicuary duties to investors and didn't seriously consider significant operational deficiences of Mr. Madoff's operation—many that were "highly suspicious" and likely indicated a fraud, the lawsuit said.

    Madoff Trustee Seeks $2.1 Billion From Tremont Chad Bray 2011

  • Corn was abundant in the region to the south and southwest of Murfreesboro ', so to make good our deficiences in this respect, I employed a brigade about once a week in the duty of collecting and bringing in forage, sending out sometimes as many as a hundred and fifty wagons to haul the grain which my scouts had previously located.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • He was elected at a very young age and with no frontline political experience whatever but instead of gathering round him men who might compensate for these deficiences he went exclusively to his similarly young and inexperienced mates Osborne and Hilton.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • Consider that for a four-year period from April 2006 to June 2010, Morgan Stanley issued over 6,000 research reports with deficiences -- yet, amazingly, no regulator seemed to have had a clue about these violations.

    Bill Singer: The Big Oops! Morgan Stanley's Research Failures 2010

  • There are gaps and serious deficiences with the industry reporting of broadband deployment.

    links for 2009-07-20 2009

  • The ascorbic acid synthesis pathway was disabled by mutation during the long period in which our fruit-eating ancestors had no chance of developing vitamin C deficiences (Jukes and King 1975).

    The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics Griffiths, Paul 2009

  • Weren't McCain's deficiences supposed to be off-set by the Palin pick?

    Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009

  • May 1st, 2007 at 6: 32 pm their inherent deficiences.

    Matthew Yglesias » Take That Anti-War Liberals! 2007

  • Where it differs is that instead of aiming to wipe out non whites, contemporary progressives advocate the use of state power to compensate for their inherent deficiences. chris Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Take That Anti-War Liberals! 2007

  • But today - as in your post - all of Palin's serious and very worrying deficiences can be neutralised if she delivers at the convention in much the same way as someone like, you know, Barack Obama.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

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