His bravery or cowardice isn't simply a matter of his masculine adequacy, though.
"Most of the biz guys make sure to let the artist know that his or her adequacy hinges entirely on the ability to generate bucks and numbers," Iggy Pop said in an email.
If there is sufficient genetic aptitude, a person's mastery of a skill depends on his motivation to improve, on his receiving continuous information or sensory feedback about the adequacy of his performance during training, and on such factors as the rewarding effects of corrections made during successive practice periods.
That Plato lets Socrates express reservations concerning the adequacy of his own procedure (435c d), despite his unusually circumspect way of justifying his division of the soul's faculties, indicates that he regards it as an important innovation.
To gauge the adequacy of his pain control, we looked at his heart rate, his blood pressure, scouring for signs of bodily agony.
Just as in his discussion of the realism issue, he leaves it to the factual sciences to judge about the adequacy of his preferred philosophical position.
He also defended the adequacy of his response to the warnings that terrorists in the United States might be planning hijackings.
Since Mr. Schuetze led the one at Computer Associates, he then, as chairman of the audit committee, had to review the adequacy of his own inquiry.
The family's lawyers, Bhatt Murphy, would like the coroner to examine the actions of the local authorities responsible for him, the adequacy of his accommodation, of the age assessments, and of access to mental health services.
In a five-page order Tuesday, Jackson mostly denied Manafort's challenge to the legal adequacy of his indictment in the District for conspiracy and money laundering brought by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
