Sentence examples for inadequate step from inspiring English sources

The Federal Reserve took a wholly inadequate step last year when it required banks to get people to opt in to the overdraft plan before charging them fees.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat who heads the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, said the president had taken a modest but inadequate step forward.

The price of meekness was apparent last week as the House gave final approval to a measure that would beef up the presence of officers at the nation's borders -- a welcome but inadequate step.

California state Sen. Mark Leno (D), who has introduced legislation that would require every phone sold in that state to have a kill switch, called the voluntary commitment "an incremental yet inadequate step to address the epidemic of smartphone theft".

Leveson criticises Northern & Shell for taking "inadequate steps" to look into hacking at its titles.

And we have a problem with a culture that has taken inadequate steps to correct this situation".

Mr. Bush was content to list the inadequate steps his administration has already taken, while flatly rejecting Governor Davis's pleas for short-term price relief.

Obama talked about the challenge of military suicides as early as the 2008 campaign, and his administration deserves modest credit for (inadequate) steps to improve mental health care.

This is not to suggest that phone hacking did take place at any of the Northern & Shell titles; the point being made is that inadequate steps were taken  to establish that it had not.

A British regulatory agency has fined the brokerage company PaineWebber, now part of the Swiss-based UBS A.G., for gaps in its internal controls, including inadequate steps to prevent money laundering.

But they also clearly laid blame for the crisis at the doorstep of the United States, saying "some advanced countries" had taken inadequate steps to prevent a buildup of dangerous risks.