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Example sentences for "insufficiency"

Lexicographically close words:
insubstantial; insue; insued; insufferable; insufferably; insufficient; insufficiently; insufflation; insuing; insula
  1. Clarke therefore does well to add: "Religion was not produced by proof of God's existence, and will not be destroyed by its insufficiency to some minds.

  2. The wonder becomes yet greater when we consider the natural insufficiency of the means used to secure this progress.

  3. We know it, however, in ourselves, and we can perceive the insufficiency or inconsistency of certain current definitions of it.

  4. Unitarianism has repeatedly demonstrated its logical insufficiency by this "facilis descensus Averno," this lapse from theism into pantheism.

  5. The insufficiency of the dictionary comes out even more clearly from another and more important consideration.

  6. The hopefulness of that past optimism is fast yielding ground to the pessimistic denunciation of the insufficiency of mere instruction for the moral ends of life.

  7. Hundreds of similar examples may be found in Eucken's books, and all point to the insufficiency of the natural process for satisfying the deepest needs of our being.

  8. Christianity, whenever it has lived on its highest levels, has struggled for two tremendous facts at least: the insufficiency of the world and the regeneration of the world in the light of the Divine.

  9. The argument of the atheist—The reply of Leibnitz and other theists—The insufficiency of this reply.

  10. He fails only from insufficiency in his puny instrument; not because his conception is indistinct, but because it is too full, energetic, and rapid, to receive adequate expression.

  11. And how singularly the very word proclaims the insufficiency of the remedy which it suggests!

  12. On Insufficiency of Aortic Valves in Connection with Sudden Death: with Notes, Historical and Critical.

  13. But he was not blind to her ambitious tendencies, and to the insufficiency of her qualifications for government.

  14. And at the same time he was a signal example of the shallowness and insufficiency of human abilities.

  15. Similar stories were told of the early Christians and, in view of all this, and the utter legal insufficiency of the witnesses, the whole tissue of evidence and confessions vanishes into smoke.

  16. Certainly the treatment should be used in cardiac insufficiency with a great deal of care, although it is often very valuable treatment.

  17. When such a condition is diagnosed, the treatment is thyroid extract; or if the insufficiency is not great, small doses of an iodid should be given.

  18. The valvular lesions most apt to cause irregular action of the heart are mitral insufficiency or mitral stenosis.

  19. Sudden death from heart failure may occur with this lesion more frequently than with mitral insufficiency but less frequently than with aortic insufficiency.

  20. If such was the fact, though the abnormality was not permanent, heart insufficiency is more or less in evidence.

  21. A distinctive murmur of this insufficiency would be diastolic and accentuated in the second intercostal space on the left of the sternum.

  22. It should be recognized that digitalis very frequently not only does not raise blood pressure, but also may lower it; especially in aortic insufficiency and when there is cyanosis.

  23. It is often difficult to decide which is more in evidence, heart insufficiency or kidney insufficiency.

  24. The poet suffered in body all his life from the rigour of this discipline; nor did he suffer less from insufficiency of mental training.

  25. All through the day, and even when they had gone to bathe from the smart little white and green shed on the upper lake, Marjorie had been made to feel the insufficiency of her equipment.

  26. A slight reflection on the reality of things shows the insufficiency of such a system.

  27. In the event it turned out that the manoeuvre was impracticable owing to the insufficiency in numbers of the British force operating east of Ypres.

  28. The counter-attacks on the 27th had failed mainly owing to the exhaustion and insufficiency of the troops employed.

  29. They convince me of the insufficiency of all inherent righteousness.

  30. For, will he that believeth not the testimony of Christ concerning the baseness of sin, and the insufficiency of the righteousness of the world, come to Christ for life?

  31. Do they cry out of the insufficiency of their own righteousness, as to justification in the sight of God?

  32. If there is an insufficiency of dung, you can add a foot of dry rubbish, such as strawberry or asparagus halm, or any other loose stuff.

  33. We have heard, however, of an insufficiency of alcoholic refreshment being made up by a "pocket-pistol.

  34. I did not hear yesterday of the insufficiency of bread supplied at Restaurants being made up by cakes and guns brought from home.

  35. And on the 2nd June Casanova, doubtless feeling his helplessness in the matter of money, and the insufficiency of his occasional remittances, and suspicious of Francesca's loyalty, wrote her a letter of renunciation.

  36. I quoted several instances of the insufficiency of a first perusal.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insufficiency" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absence; arrears; asymmetry; baseness; contrariety; daintiness; dearth; decline; defalcation; default; defect; deficiency; deficit; delicacy; delinquency; difference; disability; disparity; disproportion; disqualification; failure; imbalance; imbecility; imperfection; inability; inadequacy; incapability; incapacity; incompetence; inefficiency; ineptitude; infancy; inferiority; injustice; insignificance; insubstantial; insufficiency; irregularity; lack; littleness; meanness; mediocrity; minority; need; odds; paucity; pettiness; pittance; poverty; scant; scantiness; scarcity; shortage; shortcoming; slump; smallness; triviality; unbalance; unevenness; unimportance; unsuitability; vulgarity; want; wardship