It will be observed, however, that the characteristic of his course throughout is untiring and adequate adaption to the exigencies of the situation, as momentarily determined by the opponent's movements.
For these reasons also he steadfastly refused to countenance the system of close-watching the enemy's ports, by the presence before each of a British forceadequate to check each movement at its beginning.
Carried farther, they entail disaster; for they rest on no solid basis of adequate force, but upon successful deception.
By an adroit tactical movement, very characteristic of his resolute and adequate presence of mind, he carried his ships between Scilly and Land's End by night, disappearing before morning from the enemy's view.
The attack failed, and the British ships were badly injured; a timely lesson on the general inexpediency of attacking shore batteries with vessels, unless for special and adequate reasons of probable advantage.
It is more than doubtful whether this direction of British power, in partial, eccentric efforts, produced resultsadequate to the means employed.
On three successive Sundays Dale considered the rain an adequate excuse for not going to chapel.
And he was not a miser; he was a proud self-respecting man, who naturally would desire to maintain conventionally adequate state, were he able to do so.
Means, deemedadequate to the accomplishment of those objects, were placed by Congress at the disposal of the executive, and of the army destined to effect them, he directed General Arthur St. Clair to take the command.
In no instance were the measures of defence adopted by the different colonies, adequate to their object.
So large was this stone, and so peculiar was its dislocation, that Harry could only think of an earthquake as an adequate cause.
I shall expect your warmest congratulations; but however warm they may be, they cannot be adequateto the occasion that calls them forth.
Mr. Jinks further desired to procure an adequaterevenge upon his friend O'Brallaghan.
That boy has now become a man, and he has vainly sought, in all the glittering pursuits of life, an adequate recompense for the death of those soft hours.
But of the land in which this old sentinel stands it is impossible to speak in terms of adequate justice.
Nor is there reason to doubt that the official historian of Canada (whoever he may prove to be) will find abundant material for a grave and adequate work.
It soon became manifest that the valour and ability of Edward, unsupported by an adequate force, could make no lasting impression upon the Moslem power in Syria.
A sight of this territory can alone convey any adequate idea of its surprising produce; it is truly the Eden of the East, rejoicing in the abundance of its wealth.
He avowed his doubts as to the policy of a siege, as his force was not adequate to such a measure, and also to the regular maintenance of his communications with the coast, whence his supplies must be derived.
Thus we have to bend our energies to the enunciation of adequate concepts.
It merely arises from the fact that more complicated relations are a bother to people withoutadequate mathematical training, when they are admitted into the reasoning.
It is indeed true that we have gone but a very small way in the adequate formulation of such relations.
More than one hundred and twenty miles of water mains were laid, and everything was got ready to insure an adequate water supply as our troops advanced.
To provide in successive bodiesadequate numbers of men to be trained and used as combatant forces.
There was no intention on the part of Congress to subdivide the executive function, but rather to strengthen it by equipping it with carefully matured recommendations based upon adequate surveys of conditions.
Our artillery, from lack of roads, could not be brought up to giveadequate support to our infantry.
For the small Regular Army of the United States a well-defined and adequate supply system had been created.
All they lacked was adequate arms to present a rather formidable source of trouble behind the Union lines.
Involuntarily he swung one of his own booted feet out of the stirrup as if to assure himself that he still had adequate covering for his cold toes.
No adequate way of avoiding the complications involved by different natures has been found.
Each of the theories has some element of truth in it, for play is complex enough to include them all, but each, save perhaps the last, falls short of an adequate explanation.
It is not probable that we can ever expect most teachers to have the training necessary to give adequate instruction in this field.
Another type of course has provided for training which looks toward commercial work, even though it is recognized that the most adequate commercial training may require a longer period of preparation.
We do not have an adequate measure of the achievements of children when we assign to each of the problems or words a value of ten or of five per cent and proceed to determine the mark to be given on the examination paper.
Not only is the starting point of all reasoning some definite situation for which there is no adequate response, but the end point must naturally be the same.
No adequate explanation came as the problem presented itself; it therefore caused a state of uncertainty, of suspended judgment, and a process of thinking in order to get an answer.
An adequate realization of their nature will be a large factor in preventing cynical apprehensions from becoming actual.
Certainly the new triple entente cordiale of Japan, Italy and France is no adequate substitute for a realignment of international forces in which a common understanding between Great Britain and America is a dominant factor.
That's the mystery which we should like to solve--which she especially would like to solve; and what she's subjected us to in her efforts to arrive at a solution no language at my command is adequate to describe.
I saw at once what magnificent fun it would be to give to the stage a really adequate representation of the naughty feminine.
Don't you call a quarter of a million adequate security?
I was merely about to remark that I have laid your proposition before my friend, and, as I anticipated, he has decided that he doesn't care to lend money except on adequate security.
Winton is of opinion that in casting the play the chief difficulty would be to find an adequate representative.
Footnote 17: It is of course true that Spinoza considered himself to have a clear and adequate conception of God.
And of the part played by bad men in the divine Whole we certainly have noadequate idea.
But now if you see on an artist's canvas a splotch of red and blue and yellow, part of a work only begun, it gives you no adequate idea.
Now, according to Spinoza, when we see things as they appear in Infinite Thought we have an adequate idea.
Then the splotch of colour would take its place as part of a harmonious whole; and would give you an adequate idea just as it does to the artist.
True, you have an adequate idea of each several colour, but not of their relations to the work conceived.
I offered to pay for the stamp on the spot, and supply the remaining twenty-five kopeks when furnished with an adequate reason therefor.
But, for reasons which seemed too voluble and complicated for adequate expression, Piotr had been as slow of movement as my bumptious yamtschik of the posting-station, and nothing was ready.
As tutor to the young Prince, it had been a recognised part of his duty to amuse him by various disguises; and he was likewise the first Scottish poet with an adequate dramatic sense.
The house was adequate to our accommodation, and the exercise of a limited hospitality.
Lord Jeffrey's sense of humour was not adequate to the appreciation of these two lines, which he specialised for condemnation.
With Ayesha and Omm Salma to accompany him, and an adequatearmy to support him, he set out for the quarters of the Beni Mustalik, and before long reached Moraisi, where he encamped.
Mahomet demanded his submission; Moseilama refused, but before adequate punishment could be meted out the Prophet was stricken down with illness, so that the task of chastisement devolved upon Abu Bekr.
My case was as grave as that; though why it should be I hadn't an adequate idea.
Of course, there are certain regions of experiment that must be left to specialists, and a scientist who devoted himself to embryology might justly complain of a man who aired views on the subject without adequate study.
Perhaps I ought to have been more firm; but I could not find any adequate reason for objecting.
I am sorry to have no means of undertaking it, being assured on good authority that no adequate collection of the necessary data has yet been published.
However, it was impossible to take cognizance of partial resemblances, the mutual relations of the patterns not having, as yet, been determined with adequate accuracy.
Titchener to make an adequatecourse of experiments at Professor Wundt's psycho-physical laboratory at Leipzig, to decide this question.
The great sweep and mighty force of world movements are alone adequate for a soul in touch with God and infinities.
Near the monument is the White House, a building which, in its modest yet adequate dimensions, embodies the democratic ideal more fitly, it may be feared, than certain other phases of the Great Republic.
His earlier efforts at independence were, perhaps, hardly fortunate; but he is now entering a phase in which adequate professional knowledge coöperates with good taste to define the limits within which his imagination may legitimately work.
Samuelson takes no adequateaccount when he says “the average cost of construction has been considerably less in the case of German railways than in that of our own.
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