Sentence examples for Close to adequate from inspiring English sources

The current government, with no experience in holding an authentic election, has invited more than 150 observers to watch Sunday's vote, although the invitations went out only recently, not allowing for anything close to adequate preparation.

The votes this week on the Security Council and the votes on Capitol Hill come despite deep continuing divisions and recriminations over whether the American-led war was necessary and whether the American plan for the postwar peace is yet close to adequate.

Clearly, not even close to adequate.

It's hard to make an argument for the success of women in hero films when they're not really given anything close to adequate representation.

It is simply unfair to send some children to good quality private schools for $25,000 or more and then maintain that $7,000 -- California's average per-pupil spending -- is anywhere close to adequate to educate the rest.

The US has not spent anything close to adequate efforts to build a strong and functional Iraqi military, and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's policies gave the fragile military he received from the Americans a final push into the abyss.

And the stimulus would have been a lot closer to adequate if more of it had consisted of infrastructure spending rather than tax cuts.

Sadly, today's fine-print corporate disclaimers do not even come close to being adequate, and proper disclosure is unlikely to come without government action.

But while the state funding formula has been manifestly unfair to New York City schoolkids, the truth is that both the state and the city have refused for decades to provide the school system with anything close to an adequate level of funding.

Over the course of our conversation, it became clear the adjective "amazing" wasn't close to being adequate to describe Mirqueya Guzman.

The government is also not doing anywhere close to an adequate job of monitoring the use of electronic health records (EHRs), even though a big chunk of money from the economic stimulus bill -- some $30 billion -- is being doled out to help doctors and hospitals pay for the technology to use EHRs.