Sentence examples for making inadequate efforts from inspiring English sources

The agency is being criticized for handing out millions of dollars without proper controls or even standards for evaluating whether grants and loans did any good, and then making inadequate efforts to collect loan payments.

Second, the city has made inadequate efforts in recent years to enforce those laws, and thus to protect the rest of us.

Because health officials made inadequate efforts to stem the practice, H.I.V. spread quickly among addicts when the virus entered the population.

Specifically, the unfairness objection is that public provision of a social minimum might lead some people to make inadequate effort to help themselves and that this is unfair to those whose efforts ultimately make the necessary resources available.

Yellen went on to defend the Fed's extraordinary policies of bond purchases to keep interest rates very low, but made clear that monetary policy alone can't levitate the economy when fiscal policy is making things worse and there are inadequate efforts to solve the housing and unemployment problems.

Inadequate efforts by the city to make families aware of the benefit is largely to blame, she said.

More than nine months into that plan, only a quarter of the funds have been spent, and no alternations have been made on what is clearly an inadequate effort.

They also accused  Occidental of retaliating against whistle-blowers, conducting biased investigations with interrogations that traumatized victims and making "woefully inadequate" education and prevention efforts.

According to a survey conducted in July by the Pew Internet Center, most Americans said they believed that existing laws were inadequate to protect their privacy online, and a clear majority reported making great efforts to mask their identities online.

Even making small efforts helps.

Never stop making the effort.