Sentences with phrase «so ineffectual»

Sometimes it was his dinner speeches, educational lectures, and conference addresses that rekindled our passion for justice when it seemed often unappreciated, so ineffectual, so lonely.

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.

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

So why have all the efforts to control spam been so ineffectual?

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

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.

While it may seem odd to attribute great power to so ineffectual an organization, the right regards the UN as the instrument through which national governments will be destroyed, enabling the Antichrist to gain control of the world.

Not exact matches

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.

And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.

So long as liberals attempt to go it alone, or display a readiness to pass resolutions voicing concern and decrying injustice but lack resolve to work out of their faith, an ineffectual witness is guaranteed.

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

So often the contemporary church is a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound.

«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.»

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.

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.

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!

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!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!so much for BFHI!).

Is the Nigerian judiciary so much beyond redemption, in its alleged gobbling of sleaze, that even constitutional provisions to punish judges are so effete and ineffectual, hence this shock therapy?

Mayor deBlasio, so widely seen as incompetent and ineffectual that even some of his strongest «progressive» allies in the Legislature are wary of being associated with him, especially if they hail from the suburbs, where identification with the mayor could prove fatal in next year's elections.

He even joined the local branch of the Communist Party out of curiosity, but he found the discussions so boring and ineffectual that he quit a short time later.

The priority is to put a price on carbon and to do so in a way that avoids the pitfalls of the largely ineffectual European efforts under Kyoto.

However, efforts to slow emissions of the principal atmospheric gas driving climate change, CO2, have been ineffectual so far (Fig. 1).

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

Alas, look is everything here and storytelling and characters are next to nothing, so what emerges is oddly ineffectual and uninvolving — visually striking set pieces set loose in a void.

And though second billed in the credits, Mr. Lennon is not so much co-star as an impish member of the company, an ensemble of oddballs goofing behind the ineffectual strutting of Lt. Goodbody (Michael Crawford, from Lester's earlier film The Knack... and How to Get It and later to star in Andrew Lloyd Webber's «Phantom Of The Opera») spouting his memoirs to the sympathetic German officer that has taken him prisoner.

As she plunges into staggering depths of exhaustion, Marlo faces down opponents familiar to so many mothers: an ineffectual partner, moody daughter, and differently abled son (and a school system that fails him); scarce funds for child care; and a postpartum body — heavy, leaking, and unwieldy — that's no longer her own.

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.

Ineffectual training modules waste time and resources, so if your training isn't getting you the results that you want, it might be time to hire an instructional designer to inspire real change.

Ethical funds are a low - return, ineffectual way to invest your money — or so goes the common refrain.

And personally, I am disappointed in those that have come out in favor of Occupy, not because their many contradictory causes don't have merit, but because Occupy is so singularly ineffectual.

They can also soak up an absurd amount of bullets, so many fights boil down to you holding down the trigger while a hail of seemingly ineffectual bullets hammers into the enemy plane before then patiently waiting for the guns to cool so you can do it again.

Have you ever had a game tell you something so blunt as «you are weak and ineffectual»?

When worlds do change, they do so only in the most perfunctory, ineffectual ways.

His painting is so strong and so obviously the result of impeccable technique and years of tweaking a process that his sculptural work appears thoroughly ineffectual and patchy in comparison.

So why did nations from Australia to Europe and states such as California adopt an ineffectual bureaucratic cap - and - trade system?

Hansen and Sachs met with reporters here Tuesday (Dec. 3) in Columbia University's Low Library to discuss their study and their thoughts on the ongoing — and so far, largely ineffectual — effort to come up with a global plan to combat the problem of climate change and scale back emissions of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide.

So this whole tempest is just ineffectual misdirection, perhaps intended to keep their follower's emotions running high.

However, efforts to slow emissions of the principal atmospheric gas driving climate change, CO2, have been ineffectual so far (Fig. 1).

The other side of the coin is that for long term warming, the cumulative emissions of CO2 are dominant, even if in the short term changes in its emission are relatively ineffectual, even more so because they are often combined with emissions of cooling aerosols.

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

Reports suggest this is about going to courts of law when administrations are so spineless, corrupt and ineffectual it takes the action of citizens to demand the government obeys the law.

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.

Clicking on 645 does in fact take you to section 645 in the main frame, but the location bar still happily announces the ineffectual «FramesView.html», so you try the «other official language dipsy - doodle» I described above, only to find that it fails miserably in Frames View, producing a URL that does nothing but take you to the swathe of Code in which s. 650 is buried.

To that end, we review the traditional methods lawyers use so that we can discard the inefficient or ineffectual steps.