Sentence examples for desperately inadequate from inspiring English sources

Staff rely on such donations because state wages and food distributions have long been desperately inadequate.

"All the talk of plinths makes me feel desperately inadequate," writes Alex Lewis.

It wasn't just that there was no trickle-down from military innovation into the desperately inadequate production of consumer goods.

It made me feel desperately inadequate that I have not, as yet, ever crocheted a pair of socks.

That could have been only a small adornment to his record and now it offers a desperately inadequate consolation for what befell Celtic yesterday.

How we frame the problem of dementia profoundly influences what's on offer – and what's currently on offer is still desperately inadequate.

In his report on the first year of operations, Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, admits that, as yet, the scheme has made little noticeable difference: infant mortality is still high, food rations inadequate, drugs desperately short and safe water beyond many people's reach.A proportion of the oil money goes into a compensation fund for Iraq's victims in the Gulf war.

One of our interviewees, James in Uganda, is desperately poor and lives with his elderly father in an inadequate shack very close to a tea factory supported by Fairtrade.

Odishans remain desperately poor.

"Are we desperately short?

Although "When properly managed and overseen, well-run charter schools give families a desperately needed alternative to inadequate traditional schools in poor urban neighborhoods," the Times agrees that far to many are not "properly managed and overseen".