Sentence examples for adequate to stop from inspiring English sources

Manned by several hundred soldiers and protected by some 100 cannons, the forts seemed more than adequate to stop an enemy fleet trying to move upstream.

American officials have also sought to convince Russian military planners that the system contemplated, while adequate to stop a few missiles from a nation like Iraq or North Korea, could quickly be overwhelmed by Russia's missile forces.

Thus, conventional approaches to a 10%% global agricultural shortfall would not be adequate to stop an escalation in current hunger-related disease and death (UNICEF 2006).

These structures were never adequate to stop all floods, and recent climate change driven extreme events are ever more frequently overwhelming such infrastructure.

A fixed negative bias (∼50 or 100 V) is applied to this electrode with respect to the metallic burner; such a voltage is more than adequate to stop all negative charges from reaching the electrode.

Whatever preparations they made were obviously far from adequate to stop what may become a cataclysmic event.

But he has refused to comment specifically on the case of Father Fortune, which prompted Bishop Brendan Comiskey to resign last week after admitting that he did not take adequate steps to stop the abuse in his diocese.

The two generals were accused of not taking adequate measures to stop the attack, in which two marines died and eight people were wounded.At least five Muslims were killed by Buddhist mobs in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Despite this progress, some teachers feel they have not received adequate resources to stop the cycle of misbehavior.

Mingledorff said the country sheriffs did not have adequate reason to stop the car, nor arrest Scott, nor search his vehicle.

She said that senior police officials should be held accountable for the failure to take adequate measures to stop such incidents and called for "immediate setting up of fast-track courts to try rape cases and to get justice in a time-bound manner".