Sentences with phrase «making ineffectual»

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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.

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.

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.

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.

But no — this is the parsimonious side of deal making and it is ineffectual.

There were times though that the Juventus midfield completely dominated the affairs making Baselli ineffectual.

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-...]

This year's approach seems to be to say, «oh yes, the policies are really awful, but we did tell the Tories how bad they were» just makes them sound like some ineffectual agitprop outfit.

17:20 - Geraint Davies (Lab, visibly imploding) is making rather ineffectual hand gestures as he labours over his argument, which I frankly didn't listen to.

It also runs the risk of making Cuomo look ineffectual, ala David Paterson.

The garbled science in this film makes fusion power even more problematic, and the beautiful but ineffectual physicist Dr. Lily Sinclair (Rachel Weisz) doesn't exactly help the cause of women in science.

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.

The truth is that districts are implementing statewide evaluation systems in an unreliable and ineffectual manner — and that means we haven't made much as much progress as we need to when it comes to teacher evaluation.

«He had been educated only in that innocent and ineffectual way in which the Catholic priests teach the aborigines, by which the pupil is never educated to the degree of consciousness, but only to the degree of trust and reverence, and a child is not made a man but kept a child.»

Ignoring the decent blogs, or distorting the contents of their posts, is a very ineffectual tactic when dealing with folk whose minds aren't already made up.

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

First, it makes voluntary action to reduce emissions ineffectual, since this just lowers the cost of emissions permits (I thought this had been fixed by the changes announced in March, but I was wrong on this point).

I note that the warmist attack brigade have made their totally ineffectual flypast and skedaddled for home pdq.

I think they wanted something focused on action, despite how they phrased it (I mean, maybe I'm naive but I can't believe the law society would do something as ineffectual and silly as trying to advance equality by making licensees run around parroting their belief in equality.

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».

This sleight of hand is achieved every time a reader locks onto the Web, by stressing velocity over reflection and brevity over complexity, preferring snippets of news and bytes of facts over lengthy discussions and elaborate dossiers, and by diluting informed opinion with reams of inane babble, ineffectual advice, inaccurate facts and trivial information, made attractive with brand names and manipulated statistics.

In most cases, including on the Surface Pro 3, installing the Technical Preview will overwrite the recovery partition with the Windows 10 image, making a system refresh ineffectual should you choose to revert.