Sentence examples for inadequate though from inspiring English sources

As late as Monday night, as the judge's document was being distributed, some government officials were saying they thought Microsoft's offer was simply inadequate, though one official suggested that some of the tough talk might simply be a negotiating tactic.

The one thing we could do – inadequate though it may be – is try to value at its proper worth the work of tending and comforting the old, who are often not at all sweet, but complaining and intractable.

Photius' Latin was limited, and on the filioque controversy his information was inadequate, though he showed more understanding of the question in his later work on The Mystagogia of the Holy Spirit, completed in or after his second patriarchate.

But Mrs. Clinton has a duty to reveal the entire contents of her contract so that the public and members of the Senate Ethics Committee can judge for themselves whether its terms fulfill her pledge to comply with existing Senate rules, inadequate though they are.

The mouse-and-keyboard (or gamepad) scheme is increasingly inadequate, though we make do with extra buttons and programmable functions.

The health workers perceived their salaries as inadequate, though most policy makers differed in this assessment.

Again and again, she tells her students that they are spiritually inadequate, and though they may tremble and weep, they do not protest.

Many have called the department's minority membership woefully inadequate even though minority applicants are being hired more frequently now than they have been in several years, said Francis X . Gribbon a department spokesman.

Unfortunately, a federal judge in Boise, Idaho, ruled last month that the three-year process under which the roadless rule was developed was inadequate, even though it drew 1.6 million public comments and involved 600 public meetings.

The paper has faced up very publicly to the unreasonable attitudes and behaviour of the police, security agencies and political parties which demonstrate a problem not so much of inadequate legislation (though that is an issue) as of an increasingly illiberal culture.

The man leading the investigation into last week's blackout has come to one firm conclusion: either the rules for power transactions on the electrical grid were broken, or they were inadequate, even though they are hundreds of pages of detailed specifications covering seemingly every contingency.