"inadequacy of efforts" is a correct phrase in written English.
It means that the efforts made were not enough or sufficient for the desired outcome. Example: Despite the team's hard work and determination, the project failed due to the inadequacy of their efforts to meet the strict deadline.
It also shows the inadequacy of U.S. efforts to secure the release of American hostages, or to give their families the support and the information they need.
Most economists I talk to believe that the big risk to recovery comes from the inadequacy of government efforts: the stimulus was too small, and it will fade out next year, while high unemployment is undermining both consumer and business confidence.
Bassani's story-teller is conscious throughout of his "poor helpless pen" and the inadequacy of his efforts to confront the "cold Medusa-face", and it's that state of frustration that gives the narrative its tension.
"This report hits the nail right on the head about the inadequacy of our efforts and the unlikelihood of greater success coming up," said Charles Tiefer, a law professor at the University of Baltimore who served on the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2008 to 2011.
Advocates for immigrants said Mr. Sarrazin's analysis ignored the inadequacy of Germany's efforts to help immigrants to integrate, and widespread discrimination that locked generations into cycles of unemployment.
The discussions in them likely released with timing aimed to undermine the process in Copenhagen include debates over the inadequacy of scientific reviews, efforts to interpret climate data, and discussions on deleting e-mails after receiving Freedom of Information Act requests that could conceivably get some of the scientists in trouble.
But in the rich world the decibels of the inequality debate have been matched by the inadequacy of the reform effort.
Almost daily he tours the coast by helicopter or boat, then returns to land and holds a news conference, surrounded by angry mayors and parish officials who take turns describing the inadequacy of the response effort.
Yet Raqqawis appear angered less by the death and destruction visited upon them than by the total inadequacy of the reconstruction effort that's followed.
This perhaps is a reflection of poor tobacco control efforts or inadequacy of the control measures as tobacco control efforts work in a dose response manner, the higher and more comprehensive the ban, the lower the exposure to tobacco marketing [ 18, 9, 20].
