Sentence examples for inadequate foundation from inspiring English sources

But rational self-interest is an inadequate foundation for selfhood.

We are sympathetic to the extraordinary challenge the president faces, but if we've learned anything at all two years into the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes, it is that a capital-markets system this dependent on public confidence is a shockingly inadequate foundation upon which to rest our economy.

The totally inadequate foundation to current mainstream economic ideas and theory really does need to be exposed.

Pre-1950 houses with horizontal wood siding and those with inadequate foundation bolting are particularly vulnerable to quakes, building officials said.

As a result of this failure to analyse the evidence presented to the court, he described the council's case as "a tottering edifice built on inadequate foundations".

An architect, in addition, can be consulted to explain what the consequences might be of an illegally constructed building having inadequate foundations, e.g. the entire building collapses crushing its residents.

Despite claims that the autonomy paradigm at the heart of biomedical ethics is a key factor in patient participation, for a number of reasons it may provide inadequate foundations for such initiatives.

However, many of these studies have been hampered by inadequate theoretical foundations on which to base the expected effects of mixtures of chemicals that exhibit nonlinear concentration response curves (Kortenkamp and Altenburger 1999).

President Bush has proposed spending $153 billion on drug benefits and unspecified "Medicare reforms" over the next 10 years, but Democrats say that sum is grossly inadequate, and the foundation's study may provide new ammunition to both sides.

Eventually, the occasional lunches to compare notes with Mr. Gates's father, Bill Gates Sr., who was then running the William H. Gates Foundation out of his basement, were deemed inadequate, and the foundation in its current form was started in 2000 through a merger of the two existing entities.

More specifically, there needs to be an acknowledgment in theory and practice that the emphasis on citizen choice as determiner of policy and practice is inadequate as a foundation for private and public engagement.