How To Use Sufficient In A Sentence

Your Honour, we have not appealed against that, but what we do say is that we have sufficient standing to obtain either of the prerogative writs if ultimately the Court were minded to grant them and we do not really need more than that.
But such economies will not be sufficient to meet this gargantuan challenge. Times, Sunday Times
This can not be done through any system of methods, neither are narrow interests or unexacting tasks sufficient to arouse all that the soul has now to give. The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training
Its purpose is to gather sufficient information to answer questions about magma chambers in oceanic crust.
They say that simply flushing out rogue unleaded petrol is sufficient. The Sun

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This thrust, though, is generally reckoned to grant sufficient dynamic counterplay. Times, Sunday Times
Vehicles cannot gain sufficient momentum to cause a fatal accident. Times, Sunday Times
In old persons intracapsular fracture may be caused by such a trivial thing as turning in bed, and even a sudden twist of the ankle has been sufficient to produce this injury. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
There was not sufficient attachment of the copings.
Iraq is thought to have sufficient food stocks to last only until the end of April.
Ten of the unrevised pieces, published between 1995-98, were sufficiently up-to-date when the book went to press.
Gas was detected in sufficient quantity to warrant careful monitoring.
The fee they were paid by the Hamburg firm of WeshiemMunden GmbH had been sufficient evidence of the order's legitimacy. CORMORANT
Upon heating the plastisol coating to a temperature which is sufficient to cause fusion of resins contained therein, a highly permeable polymeric ply having the appearance of a smooth, continuous film is formed.
The implication was you had to have your own world, you had to be self-sufficient in that way.
There were weighty arguments against this theory, in particular the fact that people with great muscular strength and a welldeveloped panniculus adiposus were often attacked by the disease; and also that European crews, on a diet containing sufficient protein and fat, were not immune, even when they were given virtually no rice at all. Christiaan Eijkman - Nobel Lecture
The homelier glow of an ordinary bulb, or even the homelier light of gas, would be quite sufficient and would not obtrude. A DEATH IN TIME
In both instances the general test should be whether there was some reasonable or sufficient evidence to justify the action.
However, physical appearance and intellect are insufficient foundation for effective long-lasting relationships.
There are other claims that are perhaps insufficiently established.
Carrying a tent and a small camping stove with him, he camped every night during his journey through Europe and Russia, cooking his own food and therefore remaining self-sufficient.
I am now convinced that although he is unsound in his views there are not sufficient grounds for proceeding against him.
Croi from time immemorial had been renowned for its devout and strict observance of papistic rites and ceremonies; the Counts of Nassau had gone over to the new sect -- sufficient reasons why Philip of Croi, Duke of Arschot, should prefer a party which placed him the most decidedly in opposition to the Prince of Orange. History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 02
For non-working spouses, sufficient units can be encashed each tax year to bring total income up to just below the annual allowance.
Persons must indeed be of very uncleanly habits, whose heads absolutely require the aid of this comb, as the brush alone sufficiently possesses the power of effectually cleaning the hair from scurf, dandriff, and dust, if constantly used. The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies
These measures restored some sense to the balance sheet and provided sufficient liquidity for the company to carry on. Times, Sunday Times
Vehicles cannot gain sufficient momentum to cause a fatal accident. Times, Sunday Times
Cops said there was insufficient evidence and the case was dropped in February. The Sun
Mental and physical actions in the environment are a necessary but not sufficient condition for cognitive development.
Sufficient is however left to show that it belongs to an order of animals not yet described as either of anti or post-diluvian existence. Archive 2009-03-01
The aim is to make the refugee self-sufficient within a year. Times, Sunday Times
The word lessened does not convey a sufficient idea of what experience has proved to be true, to the honour of our excellent soldiers. Memoirs Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette
As evolution is defined as heritable allelic changes over time, if sufficient time does not pass, evolution may not happen. Evolution
Gas was detected in sufficient quantity to warrant careful monitoring.
This was sufficient to prove that he was a non-praedial, and of course entitled to liberty two years sooner than he would have been as a praedial. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
As if that weren't sufficient grounding to make a prison film, he based this on a true story, co-wrote it with one of the original prisoners involved, and cast it with non-professionals, including another of the cellmates.
Taxes must be adequate to raise a revenue sufficient to meet those federal expenditures which are truly advantageous to the general welfare, to maintain justifiable confidence in the soundness of the dollar, and to underwrite the safety of the federal debt as an investment. As The Allies Face The Future
In 1974, Lawrence Stone identified "the absence of charismatic leadership" during Edward VI's reign as one of the causes for political instability yet the behavior of Mary's household suggests that Catholics, in particular the Catholic dependents associated with Mary's household, had found in the princess householder a leader of sufficient thaumaturgical charisma that they were willing to risk death on her behalf. 95 From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
A good lawyer might fudge the issue for his client - not sufficiently to get him off the hook, but sufficiently to suggest that he honestly felt himself justified in making a second marriage.
BEFORE installing a new system, it's important to make sure the boiler system you have is sufficient. The Sun
Actual punishment should only be used as a last resort; a sharp tap with a cardboard strip is quite sufficient.
I was at home with herds and tramps and roadmen, and I was sufficiently at my ease with people like Sir Walter and the men I had met the night before. The Thirty-Nine Steps
Instead of dissuading him from further crime, the fact of having been labelled a criminal may be sufficient to make him what, if we believe his protestations of innocence, he was not.
Nearly the only cadmium mineral known is the sulphide, greenockite, but no deposits of this mineral have been found of sufficient volume to be called cadmium ores. The Economic Aspect of Geology
This type of soil will permit good drainage while allowing sufficient water retention.
This episode just shows that scientists and technicians who are exposed to phenomena that are sufficiently far out of their fields, can be completely hornswoggled.
Those borrowing are required to show they have made sufficient arrangements for security and insurance and have suitable climatic conditions. AT HOME WITH THE QUEEN: The Inside Story of the Royal Household
The DLR has become the latest corporate supporter of The Cutty Sark Trust after donating £5,000 to help ensure the deckhouses are sufficiently watertight to withstand the rain.
That he has regained sufficient emotional stability, after many years of considerable distress, to perform before live audiences is welcome.
If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them, with trifles and gingles, but use them justly and graciously, with sufficient guard nevertheless; and do not win their favor, by helping them to invade their enemies, but for their defence it is not amiss; and send oft of them, over to the country that plants, that they may see a better condition than their own, and commend it when they return. The Essays
Their close and financially rewarding relationship was sufficient to call into question the independence and disinterest of the directors.
The centerpiece of that strategy is the use of minor infractions as pretexts to lock up suspects on whom the government lacks sufficient evidence to accuse them of more serious crimes.
Already skeptics are questioning whether the initial budget for the space plan is sufficient.
The ship, with fifteen hundred passengers, and fitted with sufficient lifeboats after the tragedy of the Titanic two years before, sailed in late afternoon, heading east down the St. Lawrence Seaway. Bird Cloud
The goddesse of warre, called Bellona, had these thre handmaids ever attendynge on her: BLOOD, FIRE, and FAMINE, which thre damosels be of that force and strength that every one of them alone is able and sufficient to torment and afflict a proud prince; and they all joyned together are of puissance to destroy the most populous country and most richest region of the world. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
Now a common-place person would have been satisfied with the recommendation of the medical man, who looks but to the one thing needful, which is a sufficient and wholesome supply of nourishment for the child; but Mr Easy was a philosopher, and had latterly taken to craniology, and he descanted very learnedly with the Doctor upon the effect of his only son obtaining his nutriment from an unknown source. Mr. Midshipman Easy
Somehow he managed to compose himself sufficiently to doff his hat to her and to say most civilly, `My lady, how nice to see you. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
Sometimes tedding once, and in nearly all instances twice, will be sufficient. Clovers and How to Grow Them
He makes the point that reduplicative is really tautologous - ‘duplicative’ would have been sufficient, if it were a noun.
By the 1870s sufficient of world agriculture was in the second position to make agrarian depression both world-wide and politically explosive.
You have to repay the mortgage but hopefully the returns you receive from investing the money will be sufficient to cover the costs. Times, Sunday Times
Thereby, in the absence of other myocyte structures as well as the absence of endogenous Cav1. 2, ectopic expression of BIN1 is sufficient to concentrate surface Cav1. 2. PLoS Biology: New Articles
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions form insufficient premises.
I would like your temperate drinker to pause, and reflect upon the fact, that the quantity of brandy or rum that he took at a drink, when he commenced this downhill course, has been gradually increased; so that in the second year, what had been quite sufficient to please his palate and produce all the desired effects in the first, was then insipidly small; and more so in the third year, if, mayhap, he could with any decency lay claim to the title of _temperate drinker_ so long. Select Temperance Tracts
States that do the necessary spadework can hope for sufficient foreign direct investment.
All persons so committed may be detained n. 'jt'feci'maTbe in said hospital two years; but when it shall appear to the detained two trustees that any person held in said hospital will not continue to be subject to dipsomania or inebriety, or will be sufficiently provided for by themselves or their guar - dians, relatives or friends, they may issue to them a permit to be at liberty, upon such conditions as they deem Permit to be at Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
I think a simple affidavit is sufficient (rebuttable) proof in those cases. The Volokh Conspiracy » Defamation by Government Still Political Question
Moreover it seems to me atrocious that we who insist on seven millions of Catholics supporting a church they call heretical, should dare to talk of our scruples (conscientious scruples forsooth!) about assisting with a poor pittance of very insufficient charity their 'damnable idolatry.' The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To be an "unimpeachable" wife was not to her thinking a sufficient meeting of her problem. The Tyranny of Weakness
In the face of "misalignment," the very existence of a "currency imbalance" would be sufficient to open the door to trade sanctions -- whether or not that imbalance resulted from a deliberate attempt to manipulate the market. Forbes.com: News
The paragraph holds luminously good still for either Bobby – Jones or Moore:What we talk about here is not the hero as sportsman, but that something which a civilised community hungered for and found: the best performer in the world who was also hero as human being, the gentle, wholly self-sufficient male. My dream job as Bobby Moore's minder for a fortnight | Frank Keating
Sympathectomy has failed to secure a place in ophthalmic surgery, sclerotomy has not been found adequate, and cyclodialysis is not sufficiently simple of execution or permanently beneficial in its results to give it prominence. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
Similarly, the facetting pattern masks inclusions sufficiently that, anecdotally, lay-persons are unable to see certain inclusions (even down to SI2 or EVEN P1) even with a 10x loupe. Www.hardwarezone.com.sg
Random genetic variations plus Darwinian selection were shown to be sufficient causes of biological evolution. Infinite in All Directions
For Susan a single treatment was sufficient for a breakthrough in her health due to her youth.
By the late 19th century, telegraphic signals sent over transoceanic cables enabled clocks to be synchronized worldwide with sufficient accuracy that one had to correct for the delay due to the transmission of the telegraphic signal.
A small gas - jet furnished sufficient light for so rueful a corner.
The magistrates committed her to Preston Crown Court for sentence after ruling their powers of punishment were insufficient.
They left the _furca_ and the _patibulum_, the axe and the rods, to great offenders: for these minor and (if I may so term them) extra-moral offences _the bent thumb_ was considered as a sufficient sign of disapprobation, -- _vertere pollicem_; as _the pressed thumb, premere pollicem_, was a mark of approving. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
I'm a middle class, self sufficient, independent, employed, reasonable stable young woman.
Fortunately, for the advocates of both schools of thought, the brief text contains sufficient ambiguity to support a colorable claim for either position.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. Vincent van Gogh
Changes that impair performance of the proper function sufficiently to have fitness consequences for the organism will be selected against.
Thus, if galena and zinc blende in acid solutions be connected in the usual manner by a voltaic pair, sulphuretted hydrogen is evolved from the surface of the former, and a current generated which is sufficient to reduce gold, silver or copper from their solutions in coherent electro-plate films. Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
If this arrangement is disturbed, the body sickens; if it is sufficiently upset, the body dies.
In the course of numerical calculation, we have sufficiently considered the restrictions from and lepton flavor violation decay experiment and all kinds of neutrino experimental data.
Floodwater may contain higher carbon dioxide concentrations if the pH is sufficiently low, but both rice fields and river forelands are commonly submerged with water containing little carbon dioxide, e.g. in the range of 3-100 M.
Finally 100 grams of whiting, dry and sifted, are mixed with 5 grams of pulverised supertartrate of potass; this new powder is dissolved in a portion of the above described liquid, in sufficient quantity to form a paste of the proper consistency to be spread with a pencil on the article or part to be gilded. Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
The insomniac is unable to get sufficient sleep for their daily needs.
There's something special about eating in a garden, especially when the garden, with its soaring glasshouse, is home to an inspirational restaurant run along organic, self-sufficient lines.
The actual vegetation may not be identical owing to varying local conditions but there is sufficient affinity to make correlations reasonably certain.
-- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head. Mansfield Park
The bag lunch itself is nutritious, sufficient, if not very inspiring: a sandwich, some juice, a dessert snack or piece of fruit.
You need a designated fanner, as it is impossible for one person to fan sufficiently and mix. Archive 2005-04-01
In my effort to ‘push the envelope,’ had I perhaps neglected to affix sufficient postage?
The world can be changed by man's endeavor, and that this endeavor can lead to something new and better .No man can sever the bonds that unite him to his society simply by averting his eyes . He must ever be receptive and sensitive to the new ; and have sufficient courage and skill to novel facts and to deal with them .
Surely hard biting is sufficiently appreciable by the person bitten without any visual admeasurement of the masseter muscles or the zygomatic arches. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin
But the result proved that they were sufficiently to exercise, through the popular will and choice, the power which they had formerly put in action without its sanction, though within its proper precinct and with its title falsely inscribed. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists
If conservative treatment through lifestyle modification isn't sufficient to ease claudication or prevent the disease from progressing, you may have other treatment options.
The enforcement procedure had not been sufficiently defined with respect to infractions.
When the buildup is sufficient, a spark may flash inside your camera, fogging the film.
Second, he adds, he believes that the government does not have a sufficiently compelling interest in banning discrimination against various groups to overcome that presumption. The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar
Their printed names without signatures were insufficient. Christianity Today
If breakfast is insufficient you come closer to the exhaustion of hepatic and muscular glycogen. The Sun
Make sure you get sufficient protein to protect not only your bones, but your muscles and other body tissues.
Computer forensics is a very labor intensive business in terms of accessing the abuser's computer and getting sufficient evidence of robustness that will stand up in court.
Both of these are big enough for quartering an elk or lopping off a ridge pole for your tent, yet they're sufficiently thin to do a good job of slicing bacon for the breakfast skillet.
The army, they say, lacked sufficient combat readiness to fight in mountainous terrain.
"The process is sufficiently fair to cater for the exceptional circumstances of the case, " the judgment read.
Penn's letter, of 1683, to the Free Society of Traders, sufficiently intimates the cause of its location there, showing that Penn expected business to concentre there.
This is too neat to be true, and doesn't sufficiently acknowledge the porousness of the boundaries between fiction and life.
The major problems seem to be fragmentation, deficient base in popular constituencies and insufficient links between civic and political efforts.
Walter Lippman (1925) in particular, was skeptical of the idea of an "omnicompetent" citizen who possesses sufficient knowledge to participate effectively in the political process.
The general sentiment among lawyers is that the Commission is likely to favour plea bargaining if sufficient safeguards can be built in.
They admit that if they cannot find sufficient purchasers then they will have to accept offers from housing associations to purchase the homes.
Short bursts of incidental daylight as you go about your business should be sufficient for most people. Times, Sunday Times
Immediately after the first sea swept over our stern, I ordered the Boatswain to take sufficient men and shutters to close all windows in the after cabin.
Although the fitting of the saddle should as far as practicable be limited to the adjustment of the shape of the tree and to regulating the amount of stuffing in the panel; the use of a numdah with a saddle which does not fit the horse or which is not sufficiently stuffed, is often a valuable makeshift when necessity gives no other choice. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
A variation on this theme was that the prisoner had reformed or had shown sufficient contrition for their crime.
We'll lose some big cats such as cheetahs because they have insufficient genetic diversity to survive a nasty disease. Threats to our Future
The beef has been sufficiently stewed to soften its collagen, making it delectably chewable.
Decayed heartwood may sufficiently weaken trees enough to increase ice and wind mortality.
Blood from a guinea pig who has contracted inapparent typhus will always produce pyretic typhus in another guinea pig if the dose inoculated is sufficient. Charles Nicolle - Nobel Lecture
Before anything approaching a thorough and profitable study of the sounds of the American common speech is possible, there must be a careful assembling of the materials, and this, unfortunately, still awaits a phonologist of sufficient enterprise and equipment. Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 10. Vulgar Pronunciation
We cannot raise prices on meat and dairy products sufficiently to balance the total present-day expenditure and abolish subsidies completely. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
The criticisms of his testimony and the points derived from the documentation are not, in my view, of sufficient force to cause me to reject that evidence.
These authors feel that, at the present time, the evidence seems insufficient to support the use of peripheral sympatholytic procedures in the routine management of pain.
If sufficient, the firm is planning to build a wind farm of up to 30 turbines which, at 90 metres high, would be visible for miles around.
Third, the world sees no near-term pretender to the throne because neither the divergent economies within the Euro zone nor the undemocratic Chinese regime command sufficient confidence in their respective currencies. NYT > Opinion
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. Vincent van Gogh
The air campaign proved insufficient to defeat a defending army without a major ground offensive.
While the catalogue is a compendium of information on the artist and her work, it does not devote sufficient attention to one of the most extraordinary aspects of the exhibition.
The rents that are collected are presently insufficient to cover these costs as well as other overheads.
It was held in abeyance last year, as no candidate was considered sufficiently unoriginal. The Times Literary Supplement
A 40 watt bulb would be quite sufficient and would not obtrude.
Whisk the flour and honey with sufficient milk to make a smooth paste. The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home
There is no sufficient proof that the word "praetorium" was ever used to designate the emperors palace, though it is used for the official residence of a Roman governor. Smith's Bible Dictionary
They had sufficient space to erect semi-autonomous communities, which practiced a version of Christianity that addressed their particular needs as slaves and fostered aspirations for freedom.
Some biological theories are sufficiently affected by increasing demands for social relevance to tackle social differences.
A special hutment serves as a washroom and has sufficient taps. Work Camp 10049 GW
I am here concerned mainly with claims for damage caused by the deposit of silt on the bed of the river in sufficient quantities to interfere with navigation and the use of facilities such as slipways and moorings.
The plot is sufficiently ravelled for the entry to Valhalla to have only ambiguous significance.
The activity, or appetition, that Leibniz regards as characterizing the monads is intimately bound up with his Principle of Sufficient Reason. Continental Rationalism
Behold the mountain rillet, become a brook, become a torrent, how it inarms a handsome boulder: yet if the stone will not go with it, on it hurries, pursuing self in extension, down to where perchance a dam has been raised of a sufficient depth to enfold and keep it from inordinate restlessness. The Egoist
Application programmers should be sure to test the behavior of the transaction manager in such situations to sufficiently accommodate any necessary special handling.
Mr Linda said incorrect personal details about the assured, which were necessary for determining their assurability, were supplied and sufficient assurable interest had been absent. ANC Daily News Briefing
The Court therefore finds that the reasons put forward as justifying the interference found are not sufficient to satisfy the requirements of paragraph of Article 8.
Unable to derive sufficient energy from glucose, the body begins to draw on stored fat. The Harper Dictionary of Science in Everyday Language
Plots were treated independently rather than as paired samples because the terrain was sufficiently rugged so pairs were not well matched with respect to plot aspect or slope.
However, as these QTL appear to be tightly linked in coupling phase, the combined intercrosses do not provide sufficient resolution to separate the effects.
We don't think it's sufficient to build what we refer to as generic state universities, Azcentral.com | news
In this study, the extent of reduction in seed production due to insufficient pollen quantity and quality were examined in a naturally pollinated M. stellata population.
But they mocked it in a sufficiently understated manner that, if you'll indulge me, I'm going to try to get a little more mileage out of it.
They have nukes, and if they're sufficiently pushed, they'll use them.
It has sufficient business traffic coming to London to enable these flights to be profitable. Times, Sunday Times
While investigating the dyeing properties of the lichens, I made experiments, with a view to test their colorific power, on as many species as I could obtain in sufficient quantity, to render it at all useful to operate on -- that number, however, being very limited (between forty and fifty). The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
I left off, though, when I became aware that I was being watched by a belted constable with a damned disinheriting moustache, but I've calculated since that I could have cleared ten thousand dollars a year on the streets of Baltimore, easy, which is two thousand quid, sufficient to buy you a lieutenancy in the Guards in those days - and from the look of some of them, I'd not be surprised. THE NUMBERS
I closed the sliding windows, with translucent paper for window panes, called shoji, and went to bed, but the lack of privacy was fearful, and I have not yet sufficient trust in my fellow-creatures to be comfortable without locks, walls, or doors! Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
If Lorentz invariance were violated, the gamma-rays would pass right through the extragalactic infrared fog with insufficient energy to cause annihilation.
On the other three it showed itself just sufficiently to "furnish" the building and diversify its aspect without in any way encumbering it. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1
Very roughly, a topos is a category possessing a logical structure sufficiently rich to develop most of Category Theory
Loud infrasound in the range of 0.5 to 10 Hz is sufficient to activate the vestibular, or balance system, in the inner ear.
The clinic fee is almost sufficient to cover a counsellor's sessional fee, thus costing the practice a minimal amount.
Almost half the time, rejection or delay of loans is due to insufficient documentation.
This our Peeress declined as unnecessary , alleging that her cousin Thornhill 's recommendation would be sufficient.
The appraisal shows sufficient equity to bring payments current, escrow several months into the future and handle taxes and insurance as well as all the substantial requisite fees for the lender.
Now funds are simply insufficient. Times, Sunday Times
In both instances the general test should be whether there was some reasonable or sufficient evidence to justify the action.
But, for his own sake, and for the sake of the cattle in his care, let it be the first business of the estanciero to provide good and sufficient wells, so that the terrible history of 1904 may never be repeated. Argentina from a British Point of View
It is sufficient for present purposes to recite a passage in the last of these judgments.
Several similar reported cases, sufficiently different histologically from xanthogranulomatous salpingitis and oophoritis, are not included in this list.
During the winter a shirt with an undershirt is usually sufficient except on overcast and colder days when a light jacket will help. Cuernavaca
It was sufficiently exhilarating to maintain our interest in the postlude performance of the original final movement, which Saint-Saëns scrapped on the frank advice of his mother. Steven Isserlis – review
Thus the appearance of teleology by itself is not sufficient to infer intelligent design.
He caused an estimate to be taken of the sum required for his own expenditure, and that of those in his personal service; and being told that six hundred scudi would be sufficient, (scudo was at that time the name of a golden coin which, retaining the same weight and value, was afterwards called a zecchino,) 1 he gave orders that this sum should annually be set apart out of his patrimonial estate, for the expenses of the table. Chapter XXII
a sufficient amount of rope the last bearskin was cut up into strips, as it was necessary to have nearly a hundred feet, and the bearskin was a much-needed addition to the small quantity of ramie cord which they had on hand. The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island
Dawg has not consumed supermarket ground beef since that scandal but buys his own round or chuck and grinds it at home with a sufficient amount of fat to assure the somewhat rotund Dawg that he does not shrink to skinny-fartdom and look like some Godawful feo Chapala shrimp on a motorbike who thinks he is Marlon Brando but has more in common with Boy George. The big chapala beef beef
The notion that economies, as a whole, sometimes lack sufficient drive derives from a faulty set of economic doctrines that focus on the demand side of the aggregate economy.
If the libellee does not appear and the court considers the notice defective or insufficient, it may order further notice. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
Heuchera americana, or alum root, is adaptable to sun or shade, given sufficient moisture.
Sufficient moisture must be present to penetrate the testa or seed coat, but not so much that the seed rots or that the oxygen level in the soil is reduced.
The confirmation that the security services are sufficiently interested in Deripaska to keep files on him and his associates is likely to add to pressure on the minister to provide more information about his contacts with the Russian billionaire. 25 « October « 2008 « Niqnaq
This creates sufficient momentum to bring your hips out of the water and past your head.
But, as a rule, the form, which is French form in language (by no means always certainly or probably French in nationality of author), is not only the original, but better; and besides, it is with it that we are busied here, though in not a few cases English readers can obtain an idea, fairly sufficient, of these originals from the English versions. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
The Lords of the Judicial Committee, before whom the case was heard in June and July, 1846, reported that in their opinion the Governor-in-Council had power in law to amove Mr. Willis, and that the facts were sufficient to justify his amoval, but that an opportunity ought to have been afforded him of being previously heard. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion
After all, this is no private event, for which it would be sufficient to read the Bible by oneself or even with the aid of an experienced exegete. Fr. von Balthasar: People "need to recognize the incomparable, the unique character of the Gospel"
In the meantime it is sufficient to note that the position where the rules are barely enforced at all is far from satisfactory.
The near-transparent skin insufficiently separates the inside of the body from the outside, hinting at the noisome scandal of the feces 'exteriorization of the body's interior processes. Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations
I found examples of other tropes and schemes - epanalepsis, asyndeton, polysyndeton, hyperbole, metonymy, synecdoche, personification, and anadiplosis - but perhaps my point is sufficiently made.
Rinaldo's men were lawless, and sometimes the supplies were not furnished in sufficient abundance, so that Rinaldo and his garrison got a bad name for taking by force what they could not obtain by gift; and we sometimes find Montalban spoken of as a nest of freebooters, and its defenders called a beggarly garrison. Legends of Charlemagne
The special meaning here attached to the term deformity is sufficiently explained in the preceding paragraph; it remains to give a few illustrations, and to refer to other headings, such as Heterotaxy, Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
This row has already been rumbling on for five years and another six months will hardly be sufficient to soften the uncompromising attitudes of the two sides.
Although these systems are electronically and functionally complex, they can be miniaturized sufficiently so that one portion can be implanted and the remainder worn or carried easily in a pocket.
Described as a desk, dining or occasional chair, it is designed with sufficient strength to support even a very large person.
One would not imagine her WASP nervous system is sufficiently developed to register disquietude, but one would be mistaken. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
I think these few details from the days we knew one another should be sufficient to legitimate my request.
This has so far deemed only one interpreter at sufficiently high risk to get a visa. Times, Sunday Times
What is uncertain is whether he can garner sufficient support in rural areas. Times, Sunday Times
Within two years the affected mines had recovered sufficiently to have doubled and, in some cases, trebled their profits.
But by this time she was sufficiently under that young sinner 's thumb to be ready to follow bald-headed wherever she went. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL

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