Let them rack their brains over the question of whether their security installations were intact or simply inadequate.

Ideas once greeted as potential catalysts for revolution began to seem banal, irrelevant or simply inadequate to the task of achieving social change.

"What might have seemed appropriate and sufficient only a few months ago is simply inadequate in this new reality."

In interviews today, some officials said they thought Microsoft's settlement proposal, offered last Friday, was simply inadequate on its face.

Teams use it to weed out players whose minds are simply inadequate to the task.

"The terms of reference are narrow and simply inadequate in light of the evidence that has come to light."

The building served Jacksonville well, but by the mid-1990s, it was simply inadequate for the number of patrons using it.

The theories of Marx and Engels are simply inadequate.

I believe that this action, which only talks about several hundred kidnappings a year, is simply inadequate in the United Nations.

The existing patchwork of programs is simply inadequate to serve the current need.