In the mid-20th century this definition became inadequate because of the need for increased precision in timekeeping.
But the White House called the bill inadequate because of an exception for the airline industry and warned that President Bush was likely to veto it if it remained in its current form.
A leading MP demanded an inquiry after a whistleblower at Ofsted claimed an official report into Haringey council was secretly downgraded from "good" to "inadequate" because of the furore over the death of Baby Peter.
In some regions of the world where water supplies are inadequate because of recurring drought and rapidly expanding populations, the recycling and reuse of treated wastewater is a virtual necessity.
THE RESULTS Another Shortfall, And Cloudy Future As Denver weighs its refinancing problems, it faces another conundrum: the money the city raised to shore up its pension fund has turned out to be inadequate because of the stock market's plunge.
Studies show that few of the injured can work and that about half suffer from major depression; many feel inadequate because of their inability to provide financial and emotional support.
The lawyers in the Delaware case also argued in court that the $20 million settlement was grossly inadequate because of $500 million in directors' and officers' insurance purchased by Bank of America that is available to satisfy the matter.
Many attempts to classify them have been inadequate because of the great complexity of the languages and because of a confusion relating language, "race," and economy; for example, there was once a spurious view of pastoralism as related to cultures whose members spoke "Hamitic" languages and were descendants of ancient Egyptians.
Our understanding of the molecular determinants of cancer is still inadequate because of cancer heterogeneity.
It was widely thought to be inadequate because of two of its features.
The traditional methods are typically inadequate because of the problem referred to as the "curse of dimensionality".
