Sentence examples for inadequate command from inspiring English sources

He said Dr. Mead's research and reporting had been hampered by poor preparation, inadequate command of Samoan, a decision to live mostly among white officials rather than among the islanders, an effort to fit two competing research projects into a few months and pressure from her sponsor.

Croatian forces were hampered by an inadequate command structure, poor coordination and lack heavy weapons.

In the summer of 1991, the performance of the ZNG was poor because it lacked manpower and weapons, and exerted inadequate command and control.

Exclusion criteria were age under 18 years and inadequate command of Spanish to complete the questionnaires.

GP's excluded only patients with very severe psychiatric disorders (mania or psychosis), patients with terminal illness or an inadequate command of the Dutch language.

In this study we try to reach a study population, which is mostly excluded from clinical trials, as inadequate command of the dominant language is often an exclusion criterion.

The resources that healthcare institutions place at the disposal of users with an inadequate linguistic command include telephone translation services, intercultural health mediators and reference materials in various formats [ 5, 7- 9].

Despite weaknesses in preparations for disaster, failure to achieve unified incident command, and inadequate communications among responding agencies, all but approximately one hundred of the thousands of civilians who worked below the impact zone escaped, often with help from the emergency responders.

Despite our inadequate command of English, we understood the gist of their diatribes, and we just couldn't believe our ears: Reagan!

Once the unrest escalated — with fires cropping up around the city and people throwing items at officers — the department failed even further thanks to inadequate planning, unexpected changes in command roles and vague arrest policies.

They argued that the police should have considered letting the barrister's wife, or his close friend, speak to him during the siege; that the police gave insufficient weight to the fact the barrister was an alcoholic, who was drunk and therefore vulnerable; and that the police command structure was inadequate.