What is "ill-equipped"

Usage examples of "ill-equipped".

Iraqi intelligence sources reported that Iranian forces in Khuzestan, which had formerly included two divisions distributed among Ahvaz, Dezful, and Abadan, now consisted of only a number of ill-equipped battalion-sized formations.

There was an increase, albeit gradual, in flowering plants after the mysterious mid-Cretaceous extinction event, suggesting to some paleontologists that some dinosaurs ill-equipped to dine on this new food went extinct, to be replaced by duckbilled dinosaurs.

Though Britain was ill-equipped to counter such an attack, after the heavy losses at Gallipoli, the real danger was that even a temporary success by the Senussi might cause their sympathizers in the Western Desert and the Nile Valley to rise.

Because trafficking in women is a relatively new criminal business and is not controlled by traditionally organized crime cartels, the United States justice and law enforcement systems are ill-equipped to deal with the problem.

All his hours of classifying and scanning had not revealed what he had learned minutes after being abducted: that these aliens were dirty, haggard, foul-mouthed, and ill-equipped.

There were so many at first, some of whom were obviously ill-equipped to deal with radical new concepts, that it was kinder and less bothersome to set each applicant a basic test: an aptitude test, Aivas called it.

Now, decades later, the look was unchanged, and Chorl was ill-equipped now as then to deal with its author.

The programmes had made much of leaks from disgruntled Gardai doing Border duty and oblique grumbles that the Army felt ill-equipped to detect and deal with incursions by British army units into the South.

The tragedy of the Moriori resembles many other such tragedies in both the modern and the ancient world, pitting numerous well-equipped people against few ill-equipped opponents.

She understood he felt hopelessly ill-equipped and unready, emotionally as well as physically, yet she had already given him all the appropriate pep talks.

With much of our Space Technologies section destroyed, the Biblos Scholarium is ill-equipped to interpret such clues.

I appreciate your loyalty and can only commend you for your selfless desire to share my perils and travails, ill-equipped though you are for the task.