Sentence examples for insufficient purpose from inspiring English sources

Howe told Parliament in 1779 that his essential duty was to avoid excessive British casualties for insufficient purpose, and capturing Brooklyn Heights would likely not have meant capturing the entire American army.

There is also insufficient point, purpose and narrative clarity in the long flashback that follows.

Thirty-one days may be insufficient, but the purpose is important: it gives us the chance to hear narratives that have been forgotten, hidden, distorted or mislaid.

However, Althusser made the case that these texts were contradictory and insufficient for this purpose.

Those neglecting windows are inaccurate and insufficient for our purpose (Neugebauer et al. 2015; Schindler 2014).

The level of breakdown of technology-specific operating costs into individual cost items is also insufficient for the purpose of constructing technology-specific value chains for Japan.

Mere cataloging of genes is insufficient for this purpose because the cellular architecture and functionality is largely decided by proteins and protein complexes.

Following C. I. Lewis (1946), some proponents think of this situation as analogous to how agreeing testimonies in court can lead to a verdict although each testimony by itself would be insufficient for that purpose.

However, in electric vehicles, batteries experience a dynamic operational environment whereby the simple algorithms employed in the portable devices to predict SOC, such as coulomb counting, are insufficient for this purpose.

The 1961 and 1978 acts were deemed insufficient for this purpose in the light of the globalised industry's needs (Wendt and Izquierdo [2001]), in order "to prevent converted lines from infringing and pirating breeder's genetic material" (ISF, International Seed Federation [2005]).

In light of these studies, our in vitro results show that the forces expressed by RPEs welded to anchorage bands appear sufficient to separate the median palatine suture in pre-adolescent and adolescent patients, although the force expressed by certain models may be insufficient for this purpose in older patients.