Sentence examples for inadequate attempts from inspiring English sources

The inadequate attempts of various private and governmental agencies are complicated by unresolved debate about the nature of damage and appropriate methods of treatment and compensation.

When some – if not all – of these proliferating but inadequate attempts to redefine and mediate contemporary masculinity ring hollow, then it's surely for a good reason.

For campaigners and those watching the US gun epidemic from abroad, such steps may appear as woefully inadequate attempts to deal with the millions of weapons already in circulation.

Later, inadequate attempts at restoration only aggravated the situation, and not until the most-modern restoration techniques were applied after World War II was the process of decay halted.

Prove It" (Economic View, April 3), which said that there was not much evidence that taxes harm the economy: So, rather than relying on the pathetically inadequate attempts of corporate boards to reign in the pay of chief executives, why not drastically increase taxes on insane pay levels and thus help fill the public coffers for education, infrastructure and health care?

The current carnage, which includes more than 2,000 documented cases of torture and political violence and at least 85 politically motivated murders, according to doctors treating the victims, is an international disgrace resulting from inadequate attempts to negotiate and monitor a sham election.

The Dodd-Frank bill was an important but inadequate attempt to do the job from the outside, by legislative means.

Knowledge is so shallow in the internet age, he tells us – then demonstrates with his hilariously inadequate attempt to define capitalism.

This kind of poetry seemed to him an inadequate attempt to make meaning in a world without faith, and his own early poems must have appeared to be symptoms of the same futility.

Protests, petitions, two call-ins of the plans by supportive councillors to the Overview and Scrutiny committee, a new (yet still flawed) consultation process in recognition of the initial inadequate attempt, and much publicity.

Changing the name, but not the content, seems like an inadequate attempt to mask a serious problem.