Mr. Lieberman, who is retiring at the end of this term, said he opposed the Democratic plan as "inadequate to the problem" of the nation's budget deficit.
3. Given the number of weapons of mass murder already in place in the country, any change we can make, any law we might pass — even if we could pass such laws — will be inadequate to the problem.
The lightness of his touch, the smallness of his chosen field of observation, and the profound equanimity of his Hindu vision have been criticized as inadequate to the problem-ridden, poverty-stricken immensity of India.
(In an area where the best practices seem wholly inadequate to the problem at hand, and where departures from orthodoxy — such as a Utah experiment that simply gave homeless people houses — can be notably fruitful, the idea of radical reconceptualization is particularly attractive).
Remember how bad HAMP was: this $25 billion program would be politically far worse, because administering a fund that inadequate to the problem would be a nightmare, and for every homeowner you helped, 19 would be ticked off because once again there was nothing to help them.
The last time there was such widespread disgust with the practice of democracy in America — a sense that the institutions of self-government had become unworkable and inadequate to the crucial problems of the day — was a hundred years ago.
But Americans abide by the rule of law, and if the law now seems inadequate to address the problems that have surfaced, then it's up to Congress, not the courts or regulators, to fashion a remedy.
The grounded city is a fairer city delivered through radically different policies, necessary because the current packages of policy fixes for unfairness are inadequate to the scale of the problems and their drivers.
"I think these new proposals are completely inadequate to solve the problems," he said.
The government's response to date has been woefully inadequate to the scale of the problem".
