Its improvised approaches, sniff theorists, cannot be scaled up and are therefore not up to the task of tackling global poverty.
Rockets had not been designed, computers were not up to the task and nobody quite knew how to keep astronauts alive in space.
Current data warehouses are not up to the task of handling the volumes of machine data, aka Big Data, in ways that allow businesses to be responsive.
But sometimes literal quotation is not up to the task.
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Education policy plays a significant role in cultivating a modern workforce, and many leaders in business and technology have warned that the American school system is not up to the task.
President Barack Obama gave yet another speech last week on how he is going to stimulate the economy and reduce unemployment in the U.S. Of course, he is not up to the task.
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This implies several crucial recognitions: that intuition and experience are not sufficient to make all decisions in a way that maximizes shareholder value, that non-experimental methods are not up to the task of determining causality with sufficient reliability to guide many actions, and that experiments can be applied in practice to enough business issues to justify the costs of the capability.
After Irene, the October Storm of 2011, and Sandy last year, the utility infrastructure has shown itself to be not quite up to the task.
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Gone too is the need to settle for local talent that might not measure up to the task.
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But Mr Birch acknowledged that Aussie bands might not be up to the task of putting on an American-type show.
But in practice the administration does not think the group up to the task.
It's likely that part of the story is ability: not everyone is up to the task of dealing with the complexities of a bigger conference room filled with disparate participants.
American officials are reluctant to go nuclear and break them up, not least because the task of splitting them into pieces small enough to pose no danger would be horribly messy.
Hughton and Colin Calderwood could not stop the rot, and the task of trying to keep the club up proved beyond Newcastle legend Alan Shearer.
And now the task is not only to get more medals but to live up to new expectations.
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While its network is probably not up to that task today anyway, this will likely become more of a battleground in the future.
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Hunt also took Righthaven to task for not disclosing up front that Stephens Media had a financial interest in the case thanks to an agreement that promised 50 percent of any damages awarded.
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He was not up to this management task and that has caused real problems for his company, starting with the fact that it will be tougher for him to attract and retain talent while competing with the likes of Google.
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That means persuading the government, which does not want its 59% stake diluted, to stump up: not an easy task.
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He argues that the centre left should not copy the right, because limiting immigration is not a simple task over the long term, and because limiting welfare payments for foreigners tends to end up in court challenges.
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