Sentence examples for be less than adequate from inspiring English sources

In a statement released by Chest, the journal of the chest physicians' group, Dr. Prezant said using inhalers should be encouraged "where rescues must be made and respiratory protections may be less than adequate".

Many doctors and some Village residents were dismayed when St . Vincents went bankrupt and closed, and consider the new health care choices in the area to be less than adequate.

In addition to being homesick, he had to deal with a few people, including other physicians, who considered his foreign medical degree to be less than adequate.

In practice, however, the coverage of evolution in science standards can be less than adequate, not because the topic is scientifically controversial but because officials either have a specific religious agenda or don't want to "ruffle creationist feathers" (Lerner 2000).

In the Nampōroku (1690), a record of sayings by the tea master Sen no Rikyū, we read: "In the small [tea] room, it is desirable for every utensil to be less than adequate.

Manish soon finds that Pump'd is stocked with employees who prove to be less than adequate at their jobs, and with an ill-conceived business plan that further threatens to doom the startup before it even has a chance to succeed.

The Randalls also found that some hotels listed accessible facilities, which, in reality, were less than adequate.

Because of these changes, conventional one-dimensional models have been less than adequate at explaining the special physics of these stars.

Without in any way wishing to prejudice the outcome of the select committee, I, for one, am left with a feeling that our response to this challenge has been less than adequate.

Long before President Trump was elected, climate researchers have warned that the nation's climate monitoring capabilities — which include satellites as well as air- and surface-based instruments — were less than adequate and faced data collection gaps and other uncertainties.

Adding to the woes, Minnesota's secondary, which has been less than adequate, may be without two injured cornerbacks (Chris Cook and A. J. Jefferson) and a banged-up safety (Jamarca Sanford).