Most husbands and wives feel very possessive of their spouses and interpret extramarital activity as an aspersion on their own sexual adequacy, as indicating a loss of affection and as being a source of social disgrace.
This situation was also observed with elderly with cognitive problems for whom caregivers were unwilling to report unmet needs, fearing that doing so would negatively reflect on their own caregiving adequacy [ 10].
For worries about methodological circularity in using our accepted theories to supply facts about observability facts that bear on the theories' own empirical adequacy see section 3.7 below.
The American literary tradition is relatively young, and it stands in perpetual doubt of its own coherence and adequacy - even, you might say, of its own existence.
In fact, by his own conditions of adequacy, this argument is not only explanatory but also predictive.
The results of our study provide further insights into the gaps in medical education, based on students' own perspectives on adequacy of learning.
"Where was the National Security Council when, apparently, the president expressed his own doubt about the adequacy of the case concerning Iraq's W.M.D. weapons that was made before him?" Dr. Kay asked.
However, I strongly hope that you will either agree to commence discussions with us now or remove all obstacles so that your shareholders can make their own determinations about the adequacy of our increased offer.
Besides making errors that allowed Enron to conceal business transactions that should have been disclosed, Andersen also failed to alert Enron's audit committee to the accounting firm's own concerns about the adequacy of Enron's disclosure of the conflicts involved in these transactions.
Since Mr. Schuetze led the one at Computer Associates, he then, as chairman of the audit committee, had to review the adequacy of his own inquiry.
