Sentence examples similar to underprepared state from inspiring English sources

"Ministers' actions left the country spectacularly underprepared for the horsemeat scandal, which is why the PM had to ask the FSA to co-ordinate the sampling work".

Given the earth shaking that Indonesia constantly endures, the country remains woefully underprepared for nature's wrath.

Meanwhile, investigations by the Oregonian have found that the state's rail-safety inspectors are overburdened, emergency responders are underprepared, and most tank cars fail to meet the latest safety standards.

It left him hopelessly underprepared for the realities of life outside the Factory gates, so to speak, a state of affairs not helped by the fact that he appeared to inherit not just Wilson's idealism, but his legendarily appalling business sense.

On that occasion, David Cameron was woefully underprepared.

I wonder if I'm underprepared.

Everything feels ill-fitting, underprepared yet overwrought.

The singers, too, were oddly underprepared.

There was talk that he was distracted, underprepared, and overexposed.

You don't want to go underprepared for anything.

In European Union summits he has been underprepared and overambitious.