Which preposition to use with inadequacies
The Colonel felt keenly the inadequacy of giving a man twenty-five dollars who had just introduced him to hundreds of thousandsand who sat on the edge of his own gold-minebut it was only "on account.
The latter signify some permanent or transitory adrenal inadequacy in the past, ante-natal or post-natal, of the individual, and presage the same in his future.
Assuring myself that under every vicissitude the determined spirit and united councils of the nation will be safeguards to its honor and its essential interests, I repair to the post assigned me with no other discouragement than what springs from my own inadequacy to its high duties.
But merely to conceive great enterprises is not to perform them, and every after-step of John Brown reveals his lamentable weakness and utter inadequacy for the heroic role to which he fancied himself called.
We do not believe that any governmentno, not the Rump Parliament on its last legsever showed such pitiful inadequacy as our own during the past two months.
But the question remains, whether it is not exaggerated to regard pious aspirations, and a sense of human life's inadequacy at its close, as the signs of nervous malady.
It is the unfolding of one's intellectual helplessness before the unmoved, calm passing of years; of one's emotional inadequacy without God for adjudicator.