Also grown to manhood, he, too, is aft, lending a hand at the helm, the strength of one man being insufficient to keep it steady in that heavily rolling sea.
With such insufficient tools, the work is necessarily slow, and is still further retarded by another requirement, food, which has meanwhile to be procured.
He can dig a ditch, and make a house, and fashion a canoe, and build ramparts of earth; but human power has obviously been insufficient to construct rivers and mountains and forests and their denizens.
The animals exist in such numbers that the available food upon the ground is insufficient for all, and so some elimination results.
Finding a rate of 200 executions a day insufficient he invented the noyade.
It would appear, however, that all these are insufficient to meet the requirements of the army, and that consequently importation of horses from the Cape and Australia has had to be resorted to.
Not alone food, but appliances wereinsufficient in quantity and kind.
Food difficulties have increased in urgency; the daily ration insufficient in quantity to maintain strength and animal warmth.
His force being insufficient to engage the works of any of these places, there was nothing for Nelson to do but to blockade them, in hopes of exhausting their resources and at least preventing the escape of the ships of war.
The coast was not at this time so extensively fortified that coasting could not, in Nelson's active hands, have been made a very insufficient means of supply.
With this incident of the insufficient reinforcement sent, began the friction with Keith which appears more openly in his correspondence with others.
Hence, as Mr. Wallace remarks, "distastefulness alone would be insufficientto protect a caterpillar unless some outward sign indicated to its would-be destroyer that its prey was a disgusting morsel.
Secondly, powers of reasoning insufficient to recognise the bearing of many virtues, especially of the self-regarding virtues, on the general welfare of the tribe.
The posterior view is much more like, but that is insufficient of itself to afford a specific character.
Hence the arch being crushed by the excess of weight, and the walls offering insufficient resistance, part, and afford room between them, for the fall of the arch.
But with these frail and insufficient implements, I am in daily, hourly, momentary danger, that one lever or other gives way, and that the whole ruin recoils on my own head.
Thus the parasitical human mind, finding what clear knowledge it has laughably insufficient to interpret its destiny, takes to neglecting knowledge altogether and to hugging instead various irrational ideas.
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe butinsufficient to live on.
There remained, however, a sense that this empirical truth was somehow insufficient and illusory.
But the privacy of four walls was insufficient for Cecil while permitting herself the dear fascination of perusing Bertie's handwriting.
Thus the people who were convinced that the volume of the currency was insufficient for the industrial demands of the nation received a new and powerful reenforcement from the producers of silver ore.
The presence of copper and iron in this region had long been known, but they had not been utilized until a decade before the Civil War, and even then the output had been greatly restricted by insufficient transportation facilities.
Although insufficient for so great a conflict, the American navy was thoroughly prepared for active service, and six destroyers were sent to European waters for a prolonged stay, within eighteen days of the declaration of war.
Her husband had been dean of Halystone, a man of insufficient weight of character to have the right influence in the formation of his wife's.
But even if it turns out that only a quarter and not a third of the population are in receipt of incomes insufficient for the expenditure necessary to secure bodily efficiency, the fact is serious enough.
It behoves them to recognise that intuition and tireless industry are insufficient qualifications for their imperial service, and they must themselves promote the substitution of systematic training for rule-of-thumb anomalies.
One and all have been fruitful as successive stages of growth, yet they can never recur, and only the fanatic or visionary could wish that they should recur, for each is narrow and insufficient from the standpoint of a later age.
It seems strange, therefore, that the law to insist upon the provision of an adequate water supply for every dwelling remains entirely insufficient to meet the most urgent needs of many town streets as well as country villages.
But the evidence is insufficient to show whether the labourer or the artisan is the more guilty.
But it is not every gold-seeker that makes his fortune; many even ruin themselves when they have insufficient capital for the preliminary outlay and this is not rewarded with immediate success.
To accomplish this difficult and dangerous task, he had but an insufficient escort.
The French language, unfortunately, is here again insufficient to explain in a word the character of its outline.
It might be contended that a single caprice of this nature is insufficient to prove the existence of a passion for the display of wealth, and that such instances must necessarily be rare because the furs are rare.
Even Pablo’s talent in expressing himself in pantomime became quiteinsufficient to penetrate the limited intelligence of the Buddhist with whom I was lodged.
If the evidence is good, they must be accepted, notwithstanding the fact that extensive classes of marvels have been accepted by mankind on testimony wholly insufficient to establish their truth.
Then, leaving a priori grounds, they also affirm that the evidence to prove the Resurrection to have been an historical fact is insufficient for the purpose.
It is an unquestionable fact that the human mind has been in all ages disposed to accept a number of narratives of supernatural occurrences upon very insufficient testimony, and which the principles of sound reason lead us to reject as untrue.
It should be carefully observed that the interval of twenty- eight years from the foundation of a sect is a period wholly insufficient for the growth of an hereditary and otiose faith.
The onset of the disease is insidious, and attention is usually first directed to it by the occurrence of fracture of the shaft of one of the long bones--usually the femur--from violence that would be insufficient to break a healthy bone.
The bones are liable to be fractured by forces which would be insufficient to break a healthy bone.
It looks smart to take insufficient sleep, snatch a hurried meal out of a tin can, drink unboiled water and walk or ride in the sun without a pith hat or an umbrella.
But the kindly efforts of these Christian people are unfortunately insufficientto offset the general policy of the American people as a whole, especially as that policy is embodied in a stern law that is most harshly enforced.
True, the state is obliged to assist its subjects in acquiring material and spiritual goods, but only in so far as private means are insufficient thereto: the state must only act in a supplemental way.
Perhaps aninsufficient quality of food may have tended to this asceticism.
But music failed to fill entirely the aching void left by insufficient food, and a new diversion was proposed by Piney--storytelling.
The heavy taxes consequent upon the maintenance of an army on a war footing pressed more and more upon a country whose income was insufficient to meet its expenses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insufficient" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
