Sentence examples for a very inadequate from inspiring English sources

SUSAN HOLLINGSHEAD: I think sadly, that we tend in too many companies to do a very inadequate job of budgeting extraordinary increases.

"Twelve is a very inadequate short list," said Dr. Joe Thornton, a scientist at the Columbia Earth Institute and the author of "Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health and a New Environmental Strategy".

"You've got a very inadequate toxicological database for most pesticides, but we allow their release where the most vulnerable populations -- small children, people with allergies, the elderly -- are exposed".

The most outspoken criticisms come in the memoirs of Lords Healey and Callaghan - especially from Denis Healey in his The Time of My life (1990) in which he denounces Evans as "a very inadequate substitute for Jack Jones".

We conclude that the tool-using behaviour of capuchins presents no functional analogy with the tool behaviour of the Plio-Pleistocene hominids, and that capuchin monkeys are a very inadequate source for modelling Plio-Pleistocene hominid's technological behaviour.

But it is a very inadequate and inefficient substitute for health insurance – something Mr. Romney used to acknowledge – and every bit as much a violation of Republican principles, which oppose unfunded mandates, as the individual mandate that they abhor.

It was all very inadequate and uncomfortable.

Janet Dench of the Canadian Council for Refugees argues the PRRA — which is decided by immigration officers, usually without an oral hearing, rather than by the quasi-independent IRB, following a hearing with a right to counsel — is "very inadequate" and is "something we've been constantly concerned about".

Wave! Wave!" I got out, feeling, at 15, very inadequate as a female greeter.

He may have women friends he can talk to, but he'd feel very inadequate with a peer-group female".

A common feature of all livestock phylogenies is that the control-region molecular clocks turned out to be very inadequate for an accurate dating of mitochondrial lineage divergences.