Sentences with phrase «ineffectual at»

The finding that the training only condition was ineffectual at some time points, and counterproductive at others is consistent with findings yielded in other, international universal intervention studies, that typically show no or small to moderate effects (Cuijpers, 2003; Roberts et al., 2008; Conduct Prevention Research Group, 2010).

I can't take the answer seriously when you explicitly compare its proposed solution to the «I'm over 18» button, which is laughably ineffectual at stopping the determined user from bypassing the control.

Nobody likes being ignored when walking into a store or dealing with employees who are ineffectual at solving customer's problems.

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.

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

As my colleague Rick Newman pointed out, Warren and the committee didn't have authority to administer any real punishment, which made Warren look like an ineffectual grandstander at first.

, Warren and the committee didn't have authority to administer any real punishment, which made Warren look like an ineffectual grandstander at first.

It is a strange and engrossing work, written in a manner that many have compared to Tolstoy: stories within stories, huge chunks of raw material gleaned from the newspapers and agitprop pamphlets of the time, seemingly endless speeches by would - be rulers in the doomed Duma, and all against the background of a weak and ineffectual Tsar dominated by his wife and «our Friend,» Rasputin, with Lenin seething and scheming in Switzerland, waiting for his time to come round at last.

How were the firstborns to die — tangible murder, or a disease brought about by poor birthing conditions engineered by the medical community of the time, or by a pulse from the Anananunki planet that could be attributed to a weak, ineffectual god assigned to this sector of the universe and passed off as omnipotent because He thought he was, or knew he had to pretend to be, to give humans Any Hope AT ALL?

(16) Many pastors remain in trouble, or are at least ineffectual in their preaching because as keepers of the store they assume sole responsibility for choosing and displaying the people's metaphorical stock.

Ineffectual laws are worse than no laws at all.

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.»

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.

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.

Indeed, the promising young Spaniard held all the hallmarks of a committee signing; if Brendan had gotten his way Liverpool would've ended up with an industrious if ineffectual Ben Davies; Premier League proven through and through, and playing at Rodgers's former club in Swansea.

A high octane start in the win at Arsenal was followed by a largely ineffectual performance against newly promoted Burnley.

After looking sharp in his brief cameo at Old Trafford he was back to languid and ineffectual.

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.

To cast his involvement with street protest as ineffectual, student - unionesque posturing, at odds with the sensible, grown - up business of governance.

So ineffectual is it that at one point, an angry Scottish MP roars, «this isn't a parliament, it's a fucking purgatory!»

In Philadelphia at the DNC all the buzz was reportedly about how weak and ineffectual de Blasio is, and his dismal speaking slot didn't help matters.

62 %, at that time, thought Paterson would be ineffectual as New York's governor.

The investigator, Florence L. Finkle, is leaving less than a month after a damning federal inquiry chronicled assaults on teenage inmates by guards at Rikers, and criticized the division she oversaw as «ineffectual,» «understaffed» and biased in favor of correction officers.

The mainstream Democrats, who have raged against the defectors at great and ineffectual length, are also eyeing the 2018 races.

True, the ETS has been widely criticised as ineffectual, but the system at least imposes an international framework which could be strengthened and expanded.

Sadly, thermogenesis doesn't actually account for much of our calorie burn at all, so as a weight loss tool, it's ineffectual.

It's as if his on - stage portrayal of Willy Loman's ineffectual stumbling drives him to prove that he, at least, can be a real man.

Mike could have been written with Eisenberg in mind, his ineffectual skittishness and that hint of darkness to the sweetness that lets Mike have the uncontrolled reflexes of a coldly efficient killer and the helpful personality of a guy who will point out a gun to the bad guy at just the wrong moment.

While the players in this multibillion - dollar drama wrangled over Justice DeGrasse's order last winter, the question at the heart of the New York case was the one debated across the country: Will more money improve children's education or simply feed an already bloated and ineffectual bureaucracy?

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

Accordingly, this report was widely publicized given the assumed improbability that only 1 % of America's public school teachers were, in fact, ineffectual, and given the fact that such ineffective teachers apparently existed but were not being identified using standard teacher evaluation / observational systems in use at the time.

Rather than having to plod through semester - long courses or sit through ineffectual workshops, they can focus on mastering a specific competency, demonstrating that they have done so, and then moving ahead, all at their own pace.

Does this ever happen to you — you're in line at the market, some pushy person cuts in front of you, you mumble something ineffectual or stupid, then when you're 10 blocks away the light bulb goes off, and you think «That's what I shouda said!»

And ii) Trump as President really could happen (for much the same reasons as the Brexit vote), but now the market (like the GOP) already seems to be moving on to bargaining (& acceptance)... And anyway, a) East Coast - West Coast shame at the idea of a Trump presidency shouldn't precipitate an actual market decline, b) a President who likely ends up isolated from Congress is sure to be pretty ineffectual (as Obama's proved), c) if Trump manages to get anything done, it would probably be stimulative for the market, and d) if Hillary wins... yawn, plus ca change!

My love of sci - fi mingles with my enjoyment of ruining people's lives through ineffectual planning and general stupidity in Aven Colony, which takes the joys of constructing a city and then throws a thin science fiction theme at it in the vague hopes it'll stick.

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

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.

In terms of «solving» the problem of the current waste - load it is ineffectual as it will «consume» it so slowly at massive cost.

I've found you efforts annoying at times, hilarious at others — and generally ineffectual since you are arguing at your fnatasies rather than reality.

The photo at the top of the article shows how ineffectual fire fighting is when you are so far into the forest and when you have no money for even the most basic protection for fire fighters - the army was forced to fight fire with tree branches.

Asad Rehman head of climate and energy at Friends of the Earth had this to say «A weak and dangerously ineffectual agreement is nothing but a polluters charter — it legitimises a do - nothing approach whilst creating a mirage that governments are acting in the interests of the planet and its people,» «Doha was a disaster zone where poor developing countries were forced to capitulate to the interests of wealthy countries, effectively condemning their own citizens to the climate crisis.

Following recent reports regarding the government's ineffectual gender equality laws, Lawyer Monthly has heard from Sarah King, a specialist employment lawyer at Excello Law, who digs deep in to the details.

Peter Smith posts at the Counsel to Counsel blog that avoiding politics is just another way of playing politics, «only in a really ineffectual and doomed - to - failure way.»

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».