Sentences with word «ineffectual»

«This is not to conclude the engagement as ineffectual in furthering the collective interests; rather it invites a time for sober second thoughts and doses of pragmatism.»

You have just had a clear demonstration that «the old politics», in the hands of George Osborne and Lynton Crosby, is alive and kicking, but you argue for Labour to become as soppy, all things to all faintly nice people as the near - defunct Lib - Dems or as ineffectual as the Greens.

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.»

The pairing had potential, but the actors prove ineffectual at bringing out each other's ability to be silly, in part because of an ill - conceived script.

I do agree with you about game management though specifically with ineffectual late tactical subs.

It seems that Corbyn, who is stated to be proving ineffectual at winning voters, is so influential that the mere sight of him on a Better In stage would have swung the referendum.

Cazorla has been largely ineffectual in the last two games against Anderlecht and Sunderland, with his woeful shooting at the Stadium of Light a clear sign that our midfield maestro is low on form and confidence right now.

«After a year of failure, it is disappointing for all of those who oppose this Government that the Labour leadership will continue to be dominated by ineffectual leaders.

But James and Tera are so ineffectual in their understanding of and quest for some form of happiness, their plight loses emphasis or meaning.

The particularized subjective aim, the distinctive goal, of each actual occasion of necessity renders ineffectual elements of the past which are irrelevant to it.

Last week it emerged that the Department of the Environment has postponed yet again the publication of its proposals for implementing the directive, which requires turning Britain's existing weak and ineffectual system of designating sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs) into a legally watertight system of protection.

The dynamics of power and control shift, as the child's control strategies become ineffectual with a firm and confident therapist.

This practice has been rightly characterized as one of the most ineffectual practices still used in classrooms.

Generally pleased with the disposability of my toddler daughter's diaper waste (knotted like ineffectual sausage in the diaper pail), I reluctantly tried the cloth option.

Walcott was mostly ineffectual for England against Italy, and his Boss believes he was played out of position in the centre by Roy Hodgson.

A firm's lawyer advertising campaign is ineffectual if potential clients can't recall how to contact it.

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.

Hounsou's a properly chilling bad guy, leaving Belle's rather ineffectual character as the main weak link.

It's easy to just say «oh play a winger, it gives width» but Ramsey is far from ineffectual while on the pitch.

New emissions data for the 10,000 industrial installations covered by the EU - wide cap and trade scheme shows that greenhouse gas output fell in 2012 by 1.4 % despite the ETS's current ineffectual state.

A strategy that worked wonders on one child can be totally ineffectual on another.

So whilst the science and maths around 2 °C provides an unequivocal basis for radical reductions in emissions from wealthier nations, the politics continues to deliver grand but ultimately ineffectual gestures.

In two paintings a stream of water or a lone fireman seem ineffectual in reversing the devastation.

The challenge is one of modulating various pressures and ultimately arriving at some middle ground, where the superintendent is neither perpetually on the chopping block nor perceived as entirely ineffectual.

Pointing families back to the very authorities whose conduct they are questioning is at best ineffectual and at worst wilful blindness to the concerns raised by families and communities around policing issues.»

He spent most of the first half of the season making ineffectual substitute appearances; a brace in the League Cup promised much but in hindsight was a false dawn.

(Just as it seems you are proud of your religion illiteracy and (oh big word hun, pull out your dictionary or google page) ineffectual way of communication.

There has been an overwhelming call for Roma to bring in a proven striker who can bring Roma's ineffectual attack back to respectability.

However, because of ineffectual leadership, the district maintained a large stable of partially filled buildings.

Nonetheless, if one's attention were to momentarily drift during this aimless dramatic nadir, it would be possible to miss the stray lines of dialogue that set off the plot — and yet, before you know it, Maria's mother (Hope Davis) is chucking plates around her kitchen, frustrated over her husband's ineffectual attempts to sell the new hospital proposal.

The insinuation is that Balsillie, along with Lazaridis, dominate a weak and ineffectual board, thereby preventing it from tossing them out.

Critics complain «say on pay» votes are ineffectual because boards aren't bound to the results, but of the 53 U.S. companies for whom shareholders rejected compensation plans in 2012, 45 made changes and got positive votes the following year, according to Institutional Shareholder Services.

Even detractors would concede the diplomacy conducted there and under U.N. auspices around the world is weighty, if often ineffectual, stuff.

Violence has brought so many clear and visible results; how then go back to a way of acting that certainly looks ineffectual and seems to promise only very doubtful results?

Lerner entrusted Lambert with the task of bringing the wage bill down and replacing expensive but ineffectual players with cheaper, younger ones.

The reverse osmosis way of filtration is not only an inefficient means of purifying drinking water, it is also ineffectual to some degree because the small pores in the membrane block particles of large molecular structure like salt, but chemicals like pesticides, herbicides, and chlorine are molecularly smaller1 than water.

Meanwhile, Thor, his once - mighty hammer proving utterly ineffectual against his sister's onslaught, is unceremoniously deposited on a dusty, garbage - strewn planet that wittily underscores the movie's own dumpster - diving aesthetic.

Perhaps the visual display would be like a car's tachometer — it would measure ineffectual use of CO2.

The problem is that many people try to build a six pack using ineffectual exercises and while paying little or no attention to their diet.

Contracts forbidding consumers or patients from voicing negative opinions online is now ineffectual in California.

Once these inhuman social conditions are removed, poverty will also disappear and with it religion which was its inevitable expression and ineffectual protest.

They made the trip, but White couldn't play at all and Jeangerard made only a few brief, ineffectual appearances.

Chapman makes ineffectual efforts to connect with fellow Lennon fan Lindsay Lohan.