Inadequacy Sentence Examples

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  • Their inadequacy is evident from two standpoints.

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  • These assertions, and the total inadequacy of the pharmacology of colchicum, as above detailed, to explain its specific therapeutic property, show that the secret of colchicum is as yet undiscovered.

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  • In my view this is a serious inadequacy in record keeping.

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  • But even the final form of Jewish theology shows much vacillation as to these details, especially as regards their sequence and mutual relation, thus betraying the inadequacy of the harmonistic method by which they were derived from the Old Testament and the stormy excitement in which the Messianic idea was developed.

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  • The difficulty of tracing the relationships of algae is largely due to the inadequacy of our knowledge of the conditions under which they pass through the critical stages of their life-cycle.

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  • That just highlights the hopeless inadequacy of Liberal Democrat thinking.

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  • Lastly, the philosophers of the second physical succession - Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Leucippus - not directly attacking the great mystery of the One and the Many, but in virtue of a scientific instinct approaching it through the investigation of phenomena, were brought by their study of sensation to perceive and to proclaim the inadequacy of the organs of sense.

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  • In any piece of presumed knowledge its partial or abstract character involves the presence of loose edges which force the conviction of inadequacy and the development of contradictions.

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  • The key elements were the quality of English gunnery and seamanship but also the inadequacy of Spanish gunnery.

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  • Here and there, Harrison seems to realize the inadequacy of her approach.

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  • There is further evidence that demonstrates the inadequacy of the current planning system.

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  • But the culpability of the west does not end with the lateness or the woeful inadequacy of its response to the crisis.

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  • There was no attempt to give any notice of defects in repairs and no claim based on alleged inadequacy of specific repairs.

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  • It did not shirk the utter inadequacy of the British forces under pressure.

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  • In 1900 a Royal Commission was appointed to investigate the existing administration of the port, the alleged inadequacy of accommodation for vessels and kindred questions, and to advance a scheme of, 375 347 55591.69 reform.

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  • Activities that are too difficult for a confused elderly person may result in feelings of failure, inadequacy or frustration possibly leading to depression and withdrawal.

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  • The frustration and loss of self-esteem resulting from this academic and social inadequacy can trigger the development of CD.

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  • Hence, the social competence deficits of rejected children may increase over time, along with feelings of social anxiety and inadequacy.

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  • However, it can also create feelings of inadequacy when they think they have failed.

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  • It is easy to let a failed relationship validate feelings of inadequacy.

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  • When financial disasters occur like a loss of savings, loss of a long time job or loss through fraud, a person may experience feelings of inadequacy or may feel like a failure.

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  • Parents often feel this frustration as well and may take it upon themselves to do the child's homework in an effort to stave off his or her feelings of inadequacy or a growing negative feeling towards all things school related.

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  • Although establishing certain general relations between atomic and molecular refractions, the results were somewhat vitiated by the inadequacy of the empirical function which he employed, since it was by no means a constant which depended only on the actual composition of the substance and was independent of its physical condition.

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  • For much of all this the prime minister's colleagues were primarily responsible; but he himself had given a lead to the anti-militarist section by prominently advocating international disarmament, and the marked rebuff to the British proposals at the Hague conference of 1907 exposed alike the futility of this Radical ideal and the general inadequacy of the prime minister's policy of pacificism.

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  • The special function of the so-called "Socratic dialectic" was to show the inadequacy of popular beliefs.

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  • In the system of Hegel the word resumes its original Socratic sense, as the name of that intellectual process whereby the inadequacy of popular conceptions is exposed.

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  • The Teutonic Order had long since failed as a religious institution; it was now to show its inadequacy as a political organization.

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  • The details of this system, which has no other refuge in the civilized world save partially in Switzerland, are remarkable for a most extraordinary diversity in the manner of collection, which practically becomes, however, self-assessment, and an equally extraordinary and general evidence of the crudity and inadequacy of the system, which has been the target of state tax reports throughout the Union for half a century.

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  • He describes himself when he says, "The student of Christian doctrine, because he strives after exactness of phrase, because he is conscious of the inadequacy of any one human formula to exhaust the truth, will be filled with sympathy for every genuine endeavour towards the embodiment of right opinion.

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  • Wallis's Elenchus geometriae Hobbianae, published in 1655 about three months after the De corpore, contained also an elaborate criticism of Hobbes's whole attempt to relay the foundations of mathematical science in its place within the general body of reasoned knowledge - a criticism which, if it failed to allow for the merit of the conception, exposed only too effectually the utter inadequacy of the result.

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  • They agreed that there was strong evidence to show that " the contamination took place when the bottle was opened at Malkowal, owing to the abolition by the plague authorities of the technique prescribed by the Bombay laboratory, and to the consequent failure to sterilize the forceps which were used in opening the bottle, and which during the process were dropped on the ground "; and they complained of the inadequacy of the inquiries made by the Indian government, and called for Mr Haffkine's exoneration.

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  • The sense of inadequacy is only a condition of growing knowledge in a being subject to the laws of space and time; and the very feeling is a proof of its implicit removal.

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  • Here the only point to be insisted upon is the extreme precariousness of the Swedish position from first to last - a precariousness due entirely to inadequacy of material resources.

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  • The jealousy of France and the impatience of Queen Christina were the chief causes of the inadequacy of her final recompense.

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  • It is easy for the student now to show the inadequacy of his sources, and his failure here or there to discriminate between fact and fable.

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  • The serious rivalry of Rotterdam, especially with regard to the transit trade, and the inadequacy of the Keulsche Vaart, which connected the city with the Rhine, led to the construction in 1892 of the Merwede canal to Gorinchem.

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  • Indirectly, through the dialectic of his pupil and friend Zeno and otherwise, the doctrine of the inadequacy of sensation led to the humanist movement, which for a time threatened to put an end to philosophical and scientific speculation.

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  • The perception of its inadequacy in this respect, and the consequent generalization of Hume's problem, are the essential features of the new critical method.

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  • The real meaning of these peculiarities is hardly ever expressed by him, though it is clear that the solution of the matter is to be found in the inadequacy of the positive theory to meet the demands of reason for completed explanation.

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  • Unlike Norman Bates and Ezra Cobb, however, Joe is able to overcome his sexual inadequacy.

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  • The first forms the text of the principal argument in the Epistle to the Hebrews, in which the author easily demonstrates the inadequacy of the mediation and atoning rites of the Old Testament, and builds upon this demonstration the doctrine of the effectual high-priesthood of Christ, who, in his sacrifice of himself, truly " led His people to God," not leaving them outside as He entered the heavenly sanctuary, but taking them with Him into spiritual nearness to the throne of grace.

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  • It is of course a postulate that all truths harmonize, but to give the harmonious whole in a projection in one plane is an undertaking whose adequacy in one sense involves an inadequacy in another.

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  • Anne's residence at Mittau was embittered by the utter inadequacy of her revenue, which she keenly felt.

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  • The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

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  • The feeble inadequacy of conception, infirmity of power, factional jealousy, disintegrating particularism, and vicious finance of the Confederation were realized by many others; but none other saw so clearly the concrete nationalistic remedies for these concrete ills, or pursued remedial ends so constantly, so ably, and so consistently.

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