Progress towards their goals has been woefully inadequate.

But, though well intended, the principles are woefully inadequate.

But existing efforts to alter the situation remain woefully inadequate.

But these numbers are woefully inadequate relative to the magnitude of the problem.

Statistical information on most every facet of the lives of women and girls is woefully inadequate.

The situation is different in emerging economies, where the quantity and quality of the existing stock of housing is woefully inadequate.

In the eyes of most Asian policymakers, the proposed contribution by the West, especially America, towards solving the problem is woefully inadequate.

With regard to the attainment of the MDGs and other goals, there was grave concern that recent reviews of the status of implementation had indicated that progress had been woefully inadequate.

On the other hand, most of us are woefully inadequate to practice the venerable and vital art of baloney detection (or, more politely, critical thinking), which is so necessary in modern society.

Building on this momentum, the campaigns for debt relief, trade reform, and increasing aid to poor countries have gained traction. Yet, while pledges to increase development assistance have soared, short term funding is woefully inadequate.

That day will arrive sooner if governments spend a lot more money on low carbon energy research, which is woefully inadequate. Every nation should ideally commit to spending 0.05 of GDP exploring non carbon emitting energy technologies.

The sector s domestic value chain is woefully weak.

Truly , we fear from our Lord a woefully grim Day .

But there is another, woefully under reported, side to the story.

The modern sense of building a pan Asian community began with the traumatic East Asian financial and economic crisis of 1997, when all the countries of the Asia Pacific region learned the hard way that national reforms and protections could turn out to be woefully inadequate.

Inadequate figures

If the world s center of gravity shifts to Asia, however, Americans will be woefully unprepared.

Inadequate health care.

And it has not been strengthened by the Libyan revolution, but rather by the failure of state building in North Mali, the absence of post conflict reconciliation and reintegration in Algeria, and a lack of accountability for a shadowy Algerian security establishment whose brutal methods have proved woefully inadequate to the challenge.

(a) Inadequate statistical capacity

Inadequate health care coverage.

Much as we believe that development is our responsibility, our means of self reliance are woefully insufficient.

But global responses remain inadequate.

Inadequate supply of care services.

The current aid structures are inadequate.

Such thinking is inadequate and outmoded.

Insufficient investment has meant inadequate infrastructure.

Inadequate housing in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Inadequate, outdated legislation on domestic violence.

Inadequate health care for indigenous peoples

The crisis proved that this was inadequate.

The major problem has been inadequate resources.

A primary limitation is inadequate financial resources.

Domestic remedies thus proved ineffective and inadequate.

Confidence in electronic communications inadequate legal provision

Specifically, that means social security, private pensions, and medical and unemployment insurance plans that exist on paper but are woefully underfunded.

Training to respond to severe accidents was inadequate.

Colleges of regulators, the supposed solution, are inadequate.

Conservatism in revolutionary times is an inadequate option.

Progress here has been inadequate, despite much talk.

Preparations for the referendum are lagging and inadequate.

Infrastructure spending is either inadequate or poorly targeted.

The regional and multilateral dimensions are similarly inadequate.

Inadequate efforts to change behaviour among the population.

As such, the debt burden woefully understates the obligations that Greeks have to each other (largely in the form of family obligations).