Sentences with phrase «best ineffectual»

Ali Naseem Bajwa, terrorism specialist at 25 Bedford Row, says the government's case for the extension of the current 28 - day limit to 42 days was «manifestly not made out» and that concessions offered by the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, were «at best ineffectual, at worst misleading, and the result appeared to have more to do with political expediency than anything else».

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When you give to just a few people, and erratically, selflessness is a well - intentioned but ineffectual drain on your time.

«Modern financial theory amounts to the belief that hard work, superior insight, and good judgement - the keys to success in the real economy - are ineffectual for the investor in public markets.

After years of ineffectual praying, I have decided to take an active role and try to change things for the better for my fellow humans.

with a sensibility so exquisitely refined that he registers the distress of each fellow creature — he is well intentioned but terminally ineffectual.

Private sermons and pleadings should be avoided for this reason, as well as for the fact that they are utterly ineffectual.

This was ineffectual as an artistic stunt as well as a critique of Catholicism.

Yet for the first time since the Reformation, he believed, «genuine intercommunication has become possible where previously there could be little more than ineffectual goodwill at best and narrow contentiousness as the more general rule.»

Information and well - reasoned analysis belong in sermons, but they are ineffectual as long as the preacher has not entered the landscape of the heart and challenged the reigning metaphors of secularist national culture with the images and narratives of faith.

He's got a lose, lose situation on his hands now, if he says the players are naive and not following direction he's weak, if he's getting the tactics wrong, he's ineffectual, either way it's not good.

On the note that someone mentioned that Ozil needs to be in a better team with better players around him (as far as I'm concerned) reinforces my point of how ineffectual he really is.

His shooting accuracy is actually really good - shockingly on a par with what Henry's was & what Aguero's is now - but in every other area he has failed to improve & wont create shooting openings for himself in the way an Sanchez will for example - nothing like it, so this renders his finishing / shot accuracy ineffectual.

His ineffectual appearance usually works as well as anything.

I really hoped that the two goals he scored as Arsenal beat Hull City in the FA cup last week would spur the French international forward into the sort of form he was showing in the first half of the season, but Olivier Giroud was so ineffectual against Watford yesterday that he may as well have been at home watching it on TV.

Not only did Moreno endure a difficult season under an ineffectual manager and come out of it as one of the better products; however, as the rise of Joe Gomez took hold, he was dropped by the soon - to - be relieved Ulsterman as the defence began to leak goals.

IT»S GOOD TO BE Apart from when some dullards moan that he's ineffectual, flatters to deceive and looks lazily uninterested, Arsenal's German playmaker doesn't so much receive rave reviews as love letters, great drooling odes to his languid, elegant, aesthetically pleasing, creative magnificence — sorry, we're getting carried away here!

Poor against Russia, he had another ineffectual first half against Wales, missing among other things a good chance and only then at half time did Hodgson take him off.

Having actually been one of Manchester United's better performers in the early parts of the season, Fellaini has fully regressed back to the ineffectual bag of elbows that have embodied his Old Trafford career.

«It is easy for people to invest a lot of effort into well - meaning but ineffectual translocations projects if they aren't monitored.

In fact, all the actors feel like nothing more than accouterments for Cruz: Mark Feuerstein, as the dull but well - intentioned TV producer who falls hard for Isabella, is so ineffectual he barely registers on the screen next to her.

Plus the comedy is incessantly forced — uncertain and ineffectual at the best of times.

What's constant between this and Harris's Hannibal Lecter trilogy is his interest in broken heroes: the inversion of the man of action archetype that germinated in the Fifties Western tradition and flowered in the voodoo ego - nomics of the Reagan - mad Eighties, locating Black Sunday firmly in the deep well of Seventies cinema — filthy with ineffectual champions and astringent endings.

If it's feminism, then the best bet probably would have been not to portray all the non-passing women in the picture as shrewish and wheedling or ineffectual and simpering.

The results with this year's «Rock The Kasbah,» penned by Glazer and directed by Barry Levinson, are marginally better, but not by all that much: It's an utterly forgettable and ineffectual «comedy» that's more reminiscent of Murray's mid -»90s nadir («Larger Than Life,» «The Man Who Knew Too Little,» et al) than the more critically adored stuff he's been making this century.

I'm a big fan of Hank Azaria, for no good reason, I guess, beyond his long - term involvement with «The Simpsons», but cast herein as the titular shrink (Craig «Huff» Huffstodt) who witnesses a gay patient (Noel Fisher) commit suicide in his office in the pilot episode, Azaria finds more than just his character neutered and ineffectual.

Punctuated by a handful of well - observed scenes that belong in a better film (including a hypnotic close - up of Huppert's face that seems to last an eternity), it's ultimately a flat, ineffectual affair that goes off with a whimper rather than a bang.

Fourteen of the nation's most prestigious education schools offer teacher preparation that is at best uneven and at worst intellectually thin and ineffectual.

In «Partnership Is a Two - Way Street: What It Takes for Business to Help Drive School Reform» we argue, «Too often, business has put its good intentions to work in the service of ineffectual systems... If business leaders are serious about school improvement, they must play a more forceful role and drive harder bargains with state officials and school district educators.»

This tweet was immediately met with skepticism from the community as it's well known that the studio's default damage control position is ineffectual bluster or, failing that, total silence.

To me, the fact that I actually need to equate the two, and find Mattrick having done better, is more than enough to say that Spencer is pretty ineffectual.

A headshot is the only way of getting a kill on the «Shadows» and body shots are ineffectual at best.

There are unlockable skins, medals and weaponry, most being cosmetic and ineffectual, but good fun all the same.

They are also rather ineffectual at taking down the Locust (when they actually hit them), although equally, the Locust were often no better, paying me little to no attention as they walked up behind and straight past.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PARAGRAPH AND ESSAY WRITING Best Place To Buy Essays Journal coding approach is one that believes to a dictator of knowledge are an ineffectual entity.

Using traditional Song Dynasty landscape painting techniques, with mineral - based inks and watercolors on handmade paper, his paintings and scrolls often explore the effects of environmental engineering and the resulting social upheaval, as well as the repercussions of natural disasters: from the U.S. government's ineffectual response to Hurricane Katrina to the Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze River.

A recent BBC report provides a good review of the details, and — to my mind — a convincing picture of bitter citizens and ineffectual local officials looking in the wrong place for wrongdoing.

Sub-national, national and regional efforts might well be laudatory, but they are also ineffectual.

LORD BARKER - Ineffectual «Puppy - Dog» policies that were designed to make the party look good at the important talks in Paris last year.

You state well the non-national basis of the AGW movement: humans cause climate change, therefor anything the AGW movement demands, no matter how ineffectual or self - serving, is what absolutely must be done.

For all they may be beurcratic elephants, and at times ineffectual and inefficient, it is far better to have them for their primary purpose — forums for disparate national entities to resolve disputes and work together on common problems.

But what with evidence somewhat lacking on positive CO2 feed backs, the present temperature plateau continuing, model projections of warming way out with observation, the analogy appears a bit, well, Ehrlichean, seems to me.And then there's the bleeding of economies by costs of CO2 reduction measures and subsidizing ineffectual, (evidence indicates even un-environmental) renewable energy policies, no gain for lotsa» pain.

Obama was a good president, but proved to be totally ineffectual re climate change.

Such a course is likely to be damaging to the relations between the two states and many very well be ineffectual in any event.»

Seeing as drafting letters will be part of your responsibility as a trainee, a poorly constructed, ineffectual covering letter, riddled with mistakes, won't exactly set a good example.