Sentences with phrase «ineffectual for»

the NUS have been ineffectual for some 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.

Not exact matches

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.

Beyond another shutdown, a bigger question now looms for credit - rating agencies, bondholders and equity investors: Is America becoming a politically ineffectual country?

The reason we pay so much for healthcare isn't because of insurers, but because of the ineffectual, labyrinthine system they are insuring us against.

So, while a boycott — whether of tourism or of oil sands products — might be, in and of itself, ineffectual in halting oil sands development, it may still contribute to a more challenging business case for future oil sands projects.

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

The gospel's sweetness, for example, is suspect; it looks too much like its caricatures: irresolution and readiness to compromise — often profitably — with the established disorders; the kind of popularity that easily camouflages betrayal; a certain interior, narcissistic complacency — the secret self - vindication of the ineffectual weakling.

Throughout the book, he seems a somewhat ineffectual person, murmuring «For his mercy endureth forever» from time to time while being circled by the villains and thieves who wish to get their hands on the sacred vessel.

We must apply all our attention to the task, asserts Bonhoeffer, to answer the question «Who Christ really is, for us today» — not merely in the traditional, standardized and ineffectual religious terms, but fully, personally and responsibly.

For who is this ineffectual God who failed to show up and claim her but a version of her father who abdicated and disappeared; who failed to protect her from what was going on in her home; who, in effect, «dropped» her before she was fully formed?

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.

For years this misunderstanding underlay ineffectual policies for dealing with abuse of minoFor years this misunderstanding underlay ineffectual policies for dealing with abuse of minofor dealing with abuse of minors.

What is implied about men in the cartoon as ineffectual and inappropriate is something that for many men is getting old and not reflective of a lot of decent, honourable and self — sacrificing men that are still around.

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.

(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.

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

While community passion and suspicion following traumatic events may be an effective motivator for getting enquiries started, passion and suspicion alone have been found to be ineffectual in sustaining the subsequent detailed re-examination and reformulation of complex social policy and commercial practice.

Actual entities not contiguous to B are completely ineffectual in B, even though they are satisfied and exist as beings, as potentials, for others.

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.»

«28 In the church of Geneva, Calvin turned the same concern in the direction of discipline: «As the saving doctrine of Christ is the soul of the Church, so discipline forms the ligaments which connect the members together and keep each in its proper place... [For there would occur] a dissolution of the Church... unless the preaching of the doctrine were accompanied with private admonitions, reproofs and other means to enforce the doctrine and prevent it from being altogether ineffectual.»

Miller is there every time to provide the soundtrack, whether it's for a case of the «nerves,» dumb decision - making, or an ineffectual swing.

And if his showing in Galatasaray hasn't placed him in line for a starts over the likes of Welbeck then there's surely no doubt he has to be on the bench over the likes of the ineffectual Joel Campbell.

But he has never been one to keep his opinions to himself and so the journeyman midfielder was quick to lay into the Arsenal and Chile forward Alexis Sanchez for what he deemed as a lacklustre and ineffectual performance against his former club.

He is definitely not a main striker and has also been ineffectual as an impact substitute striker for much of this season.

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.

Yes DC looked pretty ineffectual and didn't score, neither did Remy, or Falcao, or Kane, or Lukaku, or Benteke, or Rooney, or Bony, or Aguero, or Berahino — but we should make a special case for OG not scoring — simply unacceptable.

Then Arsene Wenger made a tactical switch to substitute an ineffectual Jack Wilshere for Calum Chambers, changing the formation from 4 -2-3-1 to 3 -4-3.

Ineffectual in the transfer market for most obvious positions.

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

Howe sacrificed the ineffectual Glenn Murray and the inconsistent Juan Iturbe, and pushed King through the middle in a switch that sent Bournemouth into the fifth round for the first time since 1989.

On the one occasion he did get forward, he set up the chance of the half for the ineffectual Marouane Chamakh, who scuffed his shot wide.

So I was sent home with a supplemental nursing system and a bottle of donor milk and a serious grudge against the hospital and its ineffectual breastfeeding support services (so much for BFHI!).

This centuries - old party structure is not necessarily an unreasonable way to do things, but it is a slow and ineffectual organization for decisions that require innovation or rapid responses.

Worse, our grassroots efforts can be ineffectual and counterproductive in their messaging (see: March for Science).

The state report accompanying New York's report card singles out the ineffectual State Board of Elections for special criticism.

Now that the Lagos State Government has made known its intention to reposition the hitherto ineffectual Lagos State Public Works Corporation, with the acquisition of some road construction machines for urban renewal, I wish to use this medium to draw the attention of the agency to the deplorable state of roads in the Ajao Estate -LSB-...]

He also criticised the proposal for League economic sanctions because it would be ineffectual and that «It is all a question of real military preponderance».

It was yet another defeat for him, and a lost opportunity to salvage a career legacy that will eternally forefront his brief, ineffectual reign as governor.

Also, amusingly, Smith — whose leadership four years ago was rendered embarrassingly ineffectual by his conference's defectors, and who is no longer in a meaningful leadership position — is now rumored to be flirting with a party switch, after having floated his own name to run for mayor of New York City next year as a Republican.

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.

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

Even the threat of this could be used to persecute: consider the ugly histories of prenatal sex selection and of coerced and ineffectual «therapies» for homosexuals.

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

You won't find ineffectual doses of any ingredients in our products because we know that you don't want to pay for a product that isn't going to work.

Stale as week - old bread and every bit as bland, the movie saddles a strong cast with a groaningly ineffectual script (courtesy of Michael LeSieur, who wrote 2006's You, Me and Dupree) and wastes the director's gift for bringing lived - in charm and feeling to broad comic premises.

That Carnes and Gilbert eventually turn the whole thing around by forcing John to fight for his mother and Mr. Woodcock's crumbling relationship is nothing short of absurd, and - though the performances are all fine and the movie is mercifully short - Mr. Woodcock is generally as ineffectual and instantly forgettable as most of Thornton's comedic output as of late.

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

Curiously, a kind of salvation for both arrives in the same person: Dr. Johann Struensee (Mikkelsen), a radical thinker who is bemused by the silly pomp of cou rt and enraged by the Council's ineffectual governing.

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.