Inadequacy

Finally, he spoke to what he described as the inadequacy of the police pension system, which denies benefits to survivors if their loved one has not served at least 10 years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Whether personal inadequacy is a defence, I really could not say. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Are you trying to project your own insecurities onto others because the fear of your own inadequacy is so great? ❋ Newmania (2008)

If you get, in public affairs, men who are so morally impoverished that they have nothing they can contribute themselves, but who hope to snatch some compensation for their own inadequacy from a political career, there can never be good government. ❋ Unknown (2006)

As Heidegger points out, the unknowability that informs this sense of inadequacy is only tenable if the existence of the Idea is not distinguished from our experience of nature: to say that the thing-in-itself is not knowable if it is an object is not to say that it is an object. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Added to this was the international experience regarding the long-term inadequacy of traditional law enforcement responses to such crime over the past decade. ❋ Unknown (1994)

[Page 373] for this, often results in inadequacy in practical life, in that lack of poise which causes so many individuals to waste their energies in purposeless effort. ❋ Anne E. Montessori George (1912)

The ’superior’ attitude tells a great deal: inadequacy is rampant in the ‘dr’. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Henry VII: that is, the inadequacy of the ordinary law. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. ❋ Unknown (1874)

A main ego defense is against the feelings or state of inadequacy, which is turned inside out into grandiosity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bear in mind that all the criticisms being launched at the "inadequacy" of the Tory plan implicitly suggest it's the Tories who are somehow to blame for putting us in the current pickle of trying to reach difficult targets on a drastically reduced timeline. ❋ ALW (2007)

Even this reassurance did not quell a faint apprehension on our part; there was something distinctly formal in the occasion, and one felt that consciousness of inadequacy which is never easy for the humblest pride to bear. ❋ Unknown (1910)

_Pro Christo_. "(vol.x. p. 265)" And how does human law, in its 'inadequacy' and 'ineptitude' defend the just? ❋ Sutherland Orr (1865)

"the inadequacy of [available] [resources]" ❋ Parroottt (2015)

Hym "Some business owners take great pride in how their employees are treated and compensated and some do not. At the same time, the inability to appease the latter is treated as some [profound] [moral inadequacy]. Especially by [conservatives]. That isn't a good thing in my 'Greatest mind who has ever lived' opinion." ❋ Hym Iam (2023)