Sentence examples for cannot be adequate from inspiring English sources

The terrorist attacks have brought people to the realization that airport security cannot be adequate when the security machinery is operated by poorly trained, diffident workers earning only $6 or $7 an hour.

Irreparable injury has been defined as "injury for which a monetary award cannot be adequate compensation [and] where money damages is inadequate compensation". Jackson Dairy, Inc. v. H.P. Hood & Sons, Inc., 596 F.2d 72, 72 (2d Cir.1979).

It cannot be adequate for a responsible media organisation to publish highly intrusive material just because there is some reference to it in a dark corner of the internet.

Arguments to a sustaining cause of the cosmos claim that explanations of why something exists now cannot be adequate without assuming a present, contemporaneous sustaining cause.

Some moral theorists do assume that a reason to believe that an act is immoral cannot be adequate unless it also provides a reason not to do that act.

Thus, they claim, insofar as consequentialism and deontology are unable to acknowledge the moral value of friendship, they cannot be adequate moral theories and ought to be rejected in favor of some alternative.

The message to women is that who they are, right now, cannot possibly be adequate.

This is the first thing; language cannot quite be adequate to the reality it wants to represent.

Indeed, such claims offend so badly, it seems, that Western scholars cannot help but recoil against them and assert that whatever else they may be about, they certainly cannot be taken to be adequate self-reports of people's ways of approaching language.

But this, since it does not distinguish believers from nonbelievers and does not distinguish agnostics from atheists, cannot be an adequate characterization of atheism.

Because of these shortcomings, CORBA cannot be an adequate environment for our purposes, even though there are extensions of CORBA that would allow the parallel execution of tasks [28, 29].