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So the end of what is what he did is he said, "America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked insufficient funds."
There's an insufficient supply of beds at the orphanage and not enough warm clothing.
These are necessary but insufficient questions.
Here, what you see is a picture that shows insufficient democracy.
It's more like the invention of concrete: important, absolutely necessary to build the Pantheon, and enduring, but entirely insufficient by itself.
And insufficient resilience in the face of a significant enough stressor, can result in a psychiatric disorder, such as depression.
In addition, these international peacebuilders view local conflicts as simply the result of national and international tensions, insufficient state authority, and what they call the Congolese people's so-called inherent penchant for violence.
And to do that, well, the military alone is simply insufficient.
So no manner of these political or invisible boundaries protect the park from polluted water or insufficient water.
But that is clearly insufficient to address the needs of the people and address the needs of the countries that are supporting the people.
Well, once you protect the core interests of nations, then you can understand that nations were ready to begin to converge onto a common path, onto a common direction of travel that is going to take us probably several decades, but over those several decades is going to take us into the new economy, into a decarbonized, highly resilient economy, And the national contributions that are currently on the table on behalf of national governments are insufficient to get us to a stabilized climate, but they are only the first step, and they will improve over time.
A very small handful of countries who had undertaken very reduced, short-term emission reduction commitments that were completely insufficient and furthermore, largely perceived as a burden.
They end up relying on humanitarian agencies, which is insufficient and unsustainable, especially when injuries require lifelong support to the injured.
Listening is an important but insufficient step towards social action.
However, low-income countries show an insufficient caloric and protein intake.
What systems have we built where this is insufficient for a person to make a living?
What we do is necessary but insufficient.
An HR-driven campaign is insufficient.
We live in a world that everyone knows is interdependent, but insufficient in three major ways.
It happens over a long period of time during which a child endures painful and debilitating cycles of illness, depressed appetite, insufficient nutrition and inadequate care.
Redford's acting skillls are insufficient to make his character menacing.
I could think of a hundred adjectives to describe this fantastic work of art and intelligence, and still I would feel they were insufficient.
Had I never seen them, I would have thought this good-looking but empty; since I had, I thought its style inappropriate and its content insufficient.
There is little development (drastically insufficient development) to justify her actions for the affair she has, and when it occurs, one feels, as I did, that she is just of low moral character.
His charisma however is insufficient to lift this movie above the level of its poor script.
And despite the twist ending provided by a complete and immediate (and therefore, incomprehensible) reversal by Dorothy Maguire on the witness stand, the story is insufficient to hold my interest.
However, the development of these characters is often maddeningly insufficient.
The dialogue and acting (including that of lead Sean Connery) are both poor, and the Quincey Jones score is horrid; the camera work is better but insufficient to compensate for a movie where none of the characters seem wholly real (in a way quite typical of indifferent movies from this era).
Now out on DVD with added features largely devoted to self-praise for this super-budget Indie film, "Charlotte Somebody" suffers from insufficient critical reviews and extravagant overpraise here on IMDb.
As for other people's comments on shallow relationship, weak personalities, insufficient explanations, poor scenario, etc., I cannot agree more.
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