Sentence examples for it as insufficient from inspiring English sources

But Republicans have rejected it as insufficient.

Mrs. Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota, had opposed it as insufficient.

But several hawks in the administration are opposed to making what one senior State Department official called "a much more expansive offer," and both American and Asian officials fear that North Korea could rejected it as insufficient.

But the ruling -- intended as a gesture of the forgiving nature of the Islamic Republic -- seems to have backfired, as the United States, Jewish groups and even the defendants' lawyer criticized it as insufficient.

Senators John Kerry and Bob Graham took the Senate floor on Friday to sharply criticize the major Medicare bill that is on the table, describing it as insufficient and riddled with gaps in insurance coverage.

Or he can strike a compromise that passes with Democratic support, as happened on Tuesday when a three-week budget bill was approved by a coalition of Republicans and Democrats after 54 conservative Republicans rejected it as insufficient.

But the apology was dismissed by Thalidomide Agency UK, which represents people affected by the drug in Britain, as "insufficient".

People around the world understand that this kind of inner experience is as toxic an environment as is a polluted waterway they are forced to drink from; it is as insufficient a space as being compelled to sleep in a one-room hut with seven other bodies on the floor.

Saudi Arabia had already clashed with Washington over what it regarded as insufficient U.S. support for anti-Assad rebels, and Egypt openly courted Russia after the United States last year suspended hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid as punishment for perceived human rights abuses.

To call something public is to define it as dirty, insufficient and hazardous.

The judge assailed it as "plainly insufficient" and "clearly implausible".