Meanings of respond inadequately in English

The House ethics committee said, without finding any wrongdoing, that the House leadership had responded inadequately to the problem.

In other words, the people whose receptors responded inadequately to the cortisol in their blood were the ones who got the colds.

Background: Twenty per cent of patients with bipolar affective disorder suffer an illness that responds inadequately to treatment and has a poor outcome.

Local authorities responded inadequately to more than a third of serious water contamination incidents last year, the EPA water quality report for 2000 says.