Sentence examples for inadequate steps from inspiring English sources

In short, there were inadequate warnings and inadequate steps to prevent people swimming in the pond.

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

TOOK INADEQUATE STEPS British Industrial Crisis and Our Changing Attitude Toward Tariff Other Features of October Issue.

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.

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 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.

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.

Supporters of a more robust effort against the Islamic State called it a welcome if inadequate step to make good on the White House's vow to defeat the Islamic State, while critics warned of sliding into a broader, bloodier and ultimately ineffective campaign.

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".