Sentence examples for insufficient step from inspiring English sources

A change of leader is a necessary but insufficient step.

But the proposals by the Environmental Protection Agency are just one, insufficient step.

It's the first necessary (albeit insufficient) step to help your humans do their jobs safely while keeping the bad actors out.

Yesterday, the White House suddenly agreed to let the two Congressional committees on intelligence see classified legal "advice" related to the white paper — a good but insufficient step.

When the disturbances stop, the diaspore communities might initiate a first, but with respect of landscape protection and preservation of species diversity insufficient step of vegetation restoration.

After federal investigators subpoenaed his files and staff aides, Representative Peter Visclosky has taken the unusual, but still insufficient, step of surrendering his subcommittee gavel while a defense spending bill is legislated.

But despite a previous prosecution following the death in 2002 of George Bate, 77, from legionnaires' disease, managers took insufficient steps to protect the public, the court heard.

Having failed to act against Al Qaeda before 9/11, Mr. Clarke writes, Mr. Bush "harvested a political windfall for taking obvious yet insufficient steps after the attacks".

The group also agreed to crack down on tax havens and, on a country-by-country basis, impose stricter financial regulations on hedge funds and rating agencies — necessary though insufficient steps to avoid a repeat of the current disaster.

These are necessary but insufficient steps in an era of climate change.

For example, the standards-based testing and rather weak accountability measures in the federal No Child Left Behind Act are necessary but insufficient steps down the road to closing the gap.