The phrase "adequate in light" is not correct and may be confusing in written English.
It could be used when discussing the sufficiency of something considering certain circumstances or information, but it needs more context to be clear.
Example: "The resources provided were adequate in light of the recent changes in the project requirements."
Alternatives: "sufficient considering" or "appropriate given".
This is enough to make the McCain plan adequate in light of the numbers, so long as your humbled blogger isn't hired to implement the programme.
But since the attack on the World Trade Center, city officials have been examining whether the current fire and building codes governing construction standards, as well as fuel storage in urban areas, are adequate in light of new realities.
This broad spectrum abdominal flora coverage is considered to be adequate in light of resistance patterns in more than 95% of cases in a study of microbial resistance patterns of our country [ 30].
Alternatively, or in addition, another approach is to adopt standards that grant discretion to an adjudicator, who can craft the adequate framework in light of the facts and circumstances of the specific case, including the underlying ownership structure of the company and the economics of the deal on the table.
Despite the high risk, the seismic codes adopted in Albania up-to-date have not used probabilistic hazard maps but relayed on seismic zonation maps in terms of seismic intensities which may not be adequate in the light of recent modern seismic code practices.
"But I think that all of us recognize that things changed on Tuesday," Mr. Manley said today from his office in Ottawa, "and that there will be an increased level of concern over security in the United States, and that we will need to insure that the U.S. government is satisfied that we are taking adequate security precautions in light of what will be a heightened level of concern".
The patient was unable to mount an adequate leukocyte count in light of her clinical condition.
And we may also think that the parents' claim – called wrongful birth – against those same medical personnel for the additional expense of caring for an impaired child is not an adequate incentive – especially in light of statutes of limitation that cut off the parents' claim (in contrast to the child's) soon after the child is born.
In particular, critiquing DSSs, requiring little or no intervention from the physician, provide criticism to the physician whenever his/her activity (e.g. drug prescriptions) is considered by the DSS as non-adequate in the light of current medical knowledge [ 8].
Earlier empirical findings of failures of selective influence that have defied adequate explanation are reinterpreted in light of the present findings.
Due to the lack of adequate wage data and in light of the traditionally high unemployment rates characteristic of some Spanish regions, we instead examine immigrant responsiveness to labor market prospects relative to natives.
