sufficiency

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“Take your best crack at articulating what standards a court would apply when reviewing the sufficiency of the consultation.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

In his ruling at the Court of Session, Lord Sandison said a "reasonable person" could not have believed the letter gave "any assurance as to the legislative sufficiency of the scheme".

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

"I'm a sleep physiologist who understands the health benefits of sleep, but the strength of the association between sleep sufficiency and life expectancy was remarkable to me."

From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2026

For many, the individualism and accumulation of the container kitchen is aspirational, a way of demonstrating plenitude and sufficiency regardless of your actual class position or relation to labor and ownership.

From Slate • Mar. 15, 2025

Instead of having fluctuating populations that periodically outran their resources and starved, they maintained smaller populations that enjoyed an abundance of food in good years and a sufficiency in bad years.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond