Sentence examples for close to sufficient from inspiring English sources

But the current level of investment in pursuing that energy, he said, isn't even close to sufficient.

It seems fairly clear that those motivations are at least close to sufficient in a personal context.

Upgrading these machines nationwide would cost at least $1 billion, maybe much more, and Congress has consistently failed to provide anything close to sufficient funding to speed along the process.

The report states clearly that the steps taken by Obama so far to reduce emissions are "not close to sufficient" to prevent the most severe consequences of climate change.

Results indicate gradual coalescing of the oxidation potentials of neutral and radical cation oligomer molecule, indicative of coming close to sufficient length of the molecule to allow for two separate radical cations to exist along its chain.

But they are not remotely close to sufficient.

Condition (3.11) is close to being sufficient for the existence of and indeed is sufficient if and are nonnegative.

That wouldn't come close to raising sufficient revenue either.

Hasbrouck, on the other hand, said the UAE biofuel plan wasn't even close to a sufficient response.

Although efforts to win over Republican hawks appear close to gaining sufficient support in the Senate, the White House continues to face an uphill struggle to persuade enough members of Congress from both parties to authorise its planned strike against Syria in the House.

I'll just say that my conversations reaffirm my conviction that Obama is a pragmatic liberal who cares about fiscal sustainability, who has been willing to compromise for its sake, but who has not offered anything close to a sufficient program to avoid a debt crisis.