Adequate

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Adequate

Sufficient; equal to what is required; suitable to the case or occasion.

A law that requires Public Utilities to provide adequate service does not create a right for customers to sue the electric company whenever the meat in their freezers spoils because of a power outage in the absence of Negligence. Service does not have to be perfect in order to meet a standard of adequacy.

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However, the officials acknowledged the gravity of the situation and Ali Hassan Mahar, representative of Aurat Foundation Sukkur said more than 50,000 mothers in Pakistan lose a child every year to diarrhea, caused by a lack of adequate sanitation and clean water.

Importance of safe toilet facilities urges

111 stipulates that the right to adequate food shall be realized progressively.

Pass the right to adequate food bill now

They may add that if you were to roll over in the morning and whisper softly in your sweetheart's ear "darling, last night was adequate" you may soon find yourself looking for a new sweetheart, not to mention several new body parts.

'Adequate food' - doesn't it make you proud to be British?

The participants demanded the prime minister allocate adequate financial resources to Wapda to develop the national resources of the cheaper hydel power of 100,000MW costing Rs1.5 per unit.

Union for curtailing line losses, power theft

Adequate length of root canal filling was found in 90% cases in teeth prepared with rotary technique and in 60% cases in teeth with manual root canal preparation in this study.

DIFFERENCE IN OBTURATION QUALITY IN POSTERIOR TEETH AFTER MANUAL AND ROTARY CANAL PREPARATION TECHNIQUES

The Kenyan central bank has said that it will offer adequate liquidity after taking over Imperial Bank.

Kenyan central bank promises adequate liquidity

In environmental measures, only ventilation was adequate in the TB ward according to guidelines, but in DOTS plus ward, all the three things, type of ventilation, cross ventilation, and optimal arrangement of the patients, were adequate [Table 2].

Assessment of airborne infection control practices in the pulmonary medicine ward in a tertiary-care hospital of south Gujarat

House Bill 3795 or the proposed "Right to Adequate Food Framework Act of 2014" which calls for the creation of a three-man Commission on the Right to Adequate Food was filed on Monday by Akbayan party-list Reps.

Solons file 'right to adequate food' bill

Estyn rates on a four-point scale and so far in Wales there have been 10 "adequates", six "unsatisfactories" and just five councils deemed "good".

Education chiefs' high pay comes under attack; SALARIES OF MORE THAN PS100K PAID FOR 'ADEQUATE' RESULTS

"As Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, I have witnessed the crucial impact the safeguards policies have on the right to adequate housing of people affected by Bank-financed projects," Rolnik said.

UN expert urges WB to increase protection of right to housing

The A/A-1 ratings of IBK combine the "bbb+" anchor rating, with the bank's "adequate" business position, "adequate" capital and earnings, "adequate" risk position, "below average" funding and "adequate" liquidity.