Sentences with phrase «with ineffectual»

Why waste precious real estate with ineffectual fillers?

Two full decades of anthropogenic climate change being established science and Australia's policy focus is fully on maximum expansion of coal and gas extraction and export with some ineffectual climate «policies» to distract and pacify public concerns.

What's constant between this and Harris's Hannibal Lecter trilogy is his interest in broken heroes: the inversion of the man of action archetype that germinated in the Fifties Western tradition and flowered in the voodoo ego - nomics of the Reagan - mad Eighties, locating Black Sunday firmly in the deep well of Seventies cinema — filthy with ineffectual champions and astringent endings.

Just like the first goal the blame lies with the ineffectual double pivot.

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

The Lensois proved resolute during the first half and OM were unable to break them down, with the ineffectual Andre - Pierre Gignac guilty of missing several chances.

As Weigel, perhaps somewhat gloomily, says,»... no pope can govern successfully with an ineffectual Curia whose gaffes undercut the papal message and erode its authority.»

Not exact matches

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

The ruling removes the ineffectual barrier to helping customers determine if a Tesla could be in their future with the aid of a test drive and discussion with a salesperson.

Let me just say that we found him ineffectual and frankly evasive during our dealings with him.

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.

But the real explanation of our ineffectual preaching lies much deeper: far too many of us, far too much of the time, do not recognize the terrible truth that as preachers we are engaged in nothing other than the task of confronting our listeners with the very Word of God.

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

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.

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.

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.

Faced with this mortal threat to their survival, both the United States and the Soviet Union have fallen back upon a time - honored yet thus far ineffectual remedy: Disarmament.

The plea to remember that the other is a human being with feelings, hopes, pain, joy, may on occasion be ineffectual but it is never irrelevant, and it has its place in any ethic.

Axial individuality could be overcome by rejecting consciousness in favor of unconsciousness and thus relapsing into a preaxial state, but it could also be removed — or rendered ineffectual — by dissociation of each momentary occasion from its connection with its predecessors and successors.

«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.»

Information and well - reasoned analysis belong in sermons, but they are ineffectual as long as the preacher has not entered the landscape of the heart and challenged the reigning metaphors of secularist national culture with the images and narratives of faith.

Many pundits have been saying that the Spaniard has been extremely ineffectual this season despite playing every minute of every League game in this campaign, but with an obvious lack of backups since the sales of Matthieu Debuchy (who has been playing like a genius since joining St Etienne) and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain (who forced his move to Liverpool), the only option Wenger had was to give his place to Calum Chambers.

On the note that someone mentioned that Ozil needs to be in a better team with better players around him (as far as I'm concerned) reinforces my point of how ineffectual he really is.

Ineffectual with no control who kept giving the ball away or running down blind alleys.

Just that Francis» escape from an ineffectual corrupt regime with only regional power, was probably simpler than a prize Russian athlete breaking ties and moving to America full time would be.

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.

In Game 2, he was passive and ineffectual, finishing with only 10 points and a lone assist.

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.

With Giroud upfront, Arsenal couldn't stretch play, and instead tried playing off of Giroud; without Ramsey, though, or any other player with intuitive goal - scoring movement (such as Danny Welbeck, Theo Walcott or Alexandre Lacazette), Arsenal's attack was ineffectWith Giroud upfront, Arsenal couldn't stretch play, and instead tried playing off of Giroud; without Ramsey, though, or any other player with intuitive goal - scoring movement (such as Danny Welbeck, Theo Walcott or Alexandre Lacazette), Arsenal's attack was ineffectwith intuitive goal - scoring movement (such as Danny Welbeck, Theo Walcott or Alexandre Lacazette), Arsenal's attack was ineffectual.

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

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.

Slow and ineffectual in midfield and a liability in defence, Garcia spent just two seasons with the club before moving on to Zenit in 2014 where he continues to play to this day.

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!).

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.

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

The Tories will either become non-attached MEPs, an ineffectual rump with zero influence, or they will have to cobble together an alliance with new eurosceptic parties such as the eurosceptic German AfD party, a move which would deeply sour relations with Ms Merkel.

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.

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-...]

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.

That certainly did not create a budget process with a weak or ineffectual Governor nor did it run contrary to the concept of the Executive Budget.

Legislator Meyers joined Grant, but explained his vote against the program came from his experience with a history of similar, ineffectual programs.

They also found that these effects attenuate (or diminish) with respect to distance to a wildfire, becoming ineffectual three miles and further from the burn source.

Any colors with a light pigment will look lightweight and ineffectual against your natural coloring.

The later is the most ineffectual approach and the most damaging as the heart only «feels», it can not understand nor be taken in by these words we try and deceive ourselves with.

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.

The film opens with King George asking Churchill to take over the role of Prime Minister since Neville Chamberlain is woefully ineffectual against Hitler, whose army is sweeping through Europe with alarming speed.

However, rather than getting us to invest in these stock characters, the vast majority of the opening hour is ineffectual, with the film continuously hampered by a poor script that does little to add layers to its cast of players.

In the Mexican state, government agents are not only ineffectual in policing the cartels but are, in some cases, in cahoots with them.

The structure might be called an improvement over Dippold's scripts for Paul Feig, who produced Snatched; it does away with the dull straight man of a plot, instead playing the women's kidnappers and equally ineffectual rescuers — including a fanny - pack - wearing, over-prepared fellow vacationer (Wanda Sykes) who comes across as a rejected Melissa McCarthy cameo — for laughs.