What is "insufficiently"

Usage examples of "insufficiently".

There are those who say that taken as a whole, the Soviet cosmonautics programme was characteristically uncertain of its engineering and insufficiently strict in selecting flight personnel.

Thus the secret science and mysterious emblems of initiation were connected with the Heavens, the Spheres, and the Constellations: and this connection must be studied by whomsoever would understand the ancient mind, and be enabled to interpret the allegories, and explore the meaning of the symbols, in which the old sages endeavored to delineate the ideas that struggled within them for utterance, and could be but insufficiently and inadequately expressed by language, whose words are images of those things alone that can be grasped by and are within the empire of the senses.

Still, there had been some of his superiors, over the years, who felt that he was insufficiently zealous.

In almost all of these cases, adequate control experiments are not performed, or variables are insufficiently separated.

She was one of those mysterious people who always knew who and what was In and Out before anybody else did, and she could be merciless with overconfident arrivistes and insufficiently arrogant artists.

At his office and at his boardinghouse the girls were mere mice, or cattish, or kittenish, or had insufficiently read the advertisements.

At least twice her speech had been insufficiently deferent, even omitting the respectful term "Master.

The e-voting encryption methods used on Mali and Vishnu, which allowed people to vote via the datanet, had been deemed insufficiently secure by Jefferson's founders, even though Kafari could have written the psychotronic safeguards into such a system in her sleep.

The winter suit he was wearing at that moment was as much like a space suit as the designers could make it, and the frigid numbing down-valley breeze was like breathing purified oxygen just gasified from liquid stock, and insufficiently warmed.

His psychology, however, being of an essentially rational kind, insufficiently attentive to the more deeply based, irrational impulsions of our nature, he assumed that when a custom or belief was shown to be unreasonable, it would presently disappear.

Notwithstanding this and the remarkable assemblage of objects brought together at the great Tibetan exhibition of 1977 in Paris and Munich, the arts and crafts, like other aspects of Tibetan culture, remain insufficiently studied and the chronology, localisation of styles and techniques continue to pose obstinate problems.

When the atmosphere was calm, the low temperature was easily borne, but when the wind blew, the poor settlers, insufficiently clothed, felt it severely.

A few acquisitions were shelved almost randomly, insufficiently checked.

Most of the time, they leave us stranded, as it were, in the basins of insufficiently strange attractors: stable but suboptimal norms, programs that work just well enough to avert too frequent crashes, and to foreclose the chance of further innovation.

Instead, he'd done his stint in the Belt Defense Forces as a transport pilot, a position insufficiently romantic to make him want to reenlist after his first hitch.