Nor did they suggest that O'Neill had erred in this selection when they subsequently appeared as ineffectual substitutes. |
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Acceptance means that hereditary power will soon pass to his ineffectual, unsoldierly son, Richard. |
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It is all in the facts and figures, but, of course, she images somebody who is useless, inept, bungling, and ineffectual. |
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They soon added a try when one of their strong running centres burst through some ineffectual tackling to score under the posts. |
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After a quick ineffectual glance up at Anderson's house, she ran towards the driveway, splashing spouts of mud and rainwater up at her jeans. |
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Cameron stood on the porch, looking out into nowhere, feeling particularly cowardly and ineffectual. |
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Health professionals are mobilising to condemn the government, propose major structural reforms, and hammer the ineffectual minister. |
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She tackled the unions, but appointed a series of ineffectual liberal Home Secretaries to tackle crime, and they failed. |
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But, at the heart of this argument, I have reached the conclusion that I'm a slightly clumsy, rather ineffectual speaker. |
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All of this proved to be at least as ineffectual, disruptive, and ill-conceived as the previous urban renewal regime. |
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She had certainly been an attractive woman but, as he soon discovered, she was also impractical, ineffectual and, above all, conventional. |
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Lesser actors would have come off as comically ineffectual or abrasive and unlikable, but Howard nails the performance. |
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No matter what cause those who hijacked these flights were fighting for, their tactics are unacceptable and ineffectual. |
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This has the effect of fooling us into believing that this power is ineffectual. |
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Banning things is usually a pretty ineffectual way of stopping people from doing what they want. |
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The Executive's advertising campaigns contrive to be both insulting and ineffectual. |
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The world's leaders may have failed, the UN may have failed and the final action plan and political declaration may be ineffectual. |
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Anyone know of the seemingly ineffectual changes to the way films are nominated for the documentary Oscar? |
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Interestingly the legislation that was passed to control illegal radio stations was remarkably ineffectual. |
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The regulation of our national financial affairs has been as ineffectual as the regulation of political behaviour. |
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Or if I do, it's so ludicrously truncated and ineffectual as to be useless. |
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In point of fact, he was remarkably ineffectual at anything but promoting a sort of genteel cronyism. |
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He is ineffectual in his dual post anyway, but he still can rant and rave over it. |
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The UF and Green candidates seemed quite ineffectual, especially compared to the people they stood last time. |
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Our ineffectual government should have done something about this appalling situation by now. |
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His mother, a pale, ineffectual, religious woman, dies young, leaving Archie to the care of a father he dreads and dislikes. |
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Only problem is, he is ineffectual and naive as a new member of the corruptible capitalist system. |
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Your government is proving itself to be ineffectual when it comes to looking after its own people. |
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Other times, I feel completely ineffectual, and people progress immeasurably. |
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These difficulties would be ignored if he appeared a huge impediment, but he is ineffectual rather than terrible. |
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She balled her fists and struck out at him, her efforts feeble and ineffectual. |
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He was my hero when he was Tom, but now he was Jerry he seemed weak and ineffectual. |
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Several former Confederate states conditionally ratified the amendment, declaring that the enforcement clause was ineffectual. |
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All of these narratives unfold partly as dialogues with what seem to be sympathetic but ineffectual interlocutors, perhaps lawyers. |
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I am frankly flabbergasted that my complaints so far have proved so ineffectual. |
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After one or two ineffectual attempts he managed to pitch the key of the cow-house door in through the window. |
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The interlude of peace as all the naked refugees foregather in an ineffectual attempt to understand their destiny is all too brief. |
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As well as being dishearteningly unoriginal, these statements were also largely ineffectual. |
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I was pretty dubious about it when I was a journalist, but now I think it's remarkably ineffectual. |
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But in situations like this, ineffectual gestures are usually worse than no gestures at all. |
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It is hard to see what more could be done other than a punitive and probably ineffectual bombing campaign. |
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Modern religious rhetoric is dilute and ineffectual, and where it isn't, it seems mad and aberrational. |
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Finally, the intervention of allied troops was ineffectual and actually amateurish. |
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Yet, without strong and committed patrons, there is a real danger that he could become an ineffectual lame duck quite soon. |
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Luftwaffe tactical support for ground operations during the rest of the campaign remained spotty and ineffectual. |
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He was portrayed as a brilliant lyrical poet, but an ineffectual dreamer whose poetry improved when he outgrew his youthful radicalism. |
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He also butted his head vainly against the British and by 1949 he was despised at home and abroad as an ineffectual playboy. |
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They had built a breakwater so ineffectual that any boat taking overnight shelter behind it was likely to be smashed to matchwood on the rocks. |
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Shortly later, Camillo, the heroine's elderly and ineffectual husband, was enacted by a young beanpole of a bumpkin. |
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For all their bluster and bombast, each display of physical power proves in the end to be ineffectual. |
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Apart from the lead, the play is undercast, and it is sloppily staged, even making experienced actors seen ineffectual. |
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The others are ineffectual, arrogant or pleased with themselves. |
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As much as I don't want those resources put to ineffectual uses, I also don't want it to go to waste since it's not like there is an excess of resources to go around. |
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Why, then, are we led to believe that her conniving ways are so ineffectual and misdirected? |
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It's the tale of a delicate, sheltered little prince who leaves his castle and ventures into a world with no patience for effeminate and ineffectual aristocrats. |
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Do you call an ineffectual, hapless person a schlemiel, a shlemel, a shlemyel, or a schlemeyel? |
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Worse, this ineffectual debating society is wholly unrepresentative. |
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Saying that you don't like the choices available is weak and ineffectual. |
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He is around forty, sandy haired, ineffectual and weak chinned. |
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What happens is the CO combines with the haemoglobin in the blood to form the relatively stable carboxyhaemoglobin and renders the blood ineffectual as an oxygen carrier. |
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I was tempted to launch a sarcastic commentary about the difference between nerds and geeks, and their ineffectual nature as insults, but decided it probably wouldn't help. |
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The King recently appointed 30 women to the shura Council, which is kind of like the U.S. Congress but even more ineffectual. |
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He has shown how false and useless and ineffectual the law truly is. |
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Speaking of ineffectual parents, we get them in the shop all the time. |
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The guy's a plonker and made a totally ineffectual campaign leader. |
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Yet as an immigrant and woman of color, she is ineffectual in America. |
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The Sioux understandably resented the invasion of their territory, and the United States Army made largely ineffectual efforts to deter the horde of gold seekers. |
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How our poor, ineffectual Mayor must envy his opposite number in Paris! |
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The woman could not be less interested but the blackboard she gets for her dowry comes in handy as a rather ineffectual shelter against chemical weapons. |
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The cant and hypocrisy from a Johnny-come-lately who was parachuted into his seat to replace an ineffectual MP is amazing. |
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Our group leader proved highly ineffectual, caving to every whim put forth by the other members. |
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By the time that Charles took over command from the ineffectual Lord Mayor, the fire was already out of control. |
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Although the Luftwaffe correctly interpreted these new ground control procedures, they were incorrectly assessed as being rigid and ineffectual. |
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Alaric cashiered his ineffectual puppet emperor after eleven months and again tried to reopen negotiations with Honorius. |
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During the reign of emperor Tiberius, sumptuary laws were passed that forbade men from wearing silk garments, but these proved ineffectual. |
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This left his younger son, the pious but politically ineffectual Feodor Ivanovich, to inherit the throne. |
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The main force was defeated in northern Lesotho, and later guerrillas launched sporadic but usually ineffectual attacks. |
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Social standing and wealth are not necessarily advantages in her world, and a further theme common to Austen's work is ineffectual parents. |
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The end result only confirmed its image as disorganized and ineffectual. |
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Ruwanza S, Musil CF, Esler KJ Sucrose application is ineffectual as a restoration aid in a transformed southern African lowland fynbos ecosystem. |
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But the White House is sounding more and more defensive and ineffectual. |
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On the one hand, there is the danger of ineffectual and often counterproductive conservative handwringing over the crisis. |
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Richard proved to ineffectual and unable to maintain his rule. |
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Such perceived helplessness on the part of the therapist reinvokes the image of the ineffectual parent who could do nothing to protect her child from extreme forms of abuse. |
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However the Queen herself has received little credit for these achievements and has long been depicted as a weak and ineffectual monarch, dominated by her advisers. |
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Parliament also passed several laws aimed at combatting corruption, including the Corrupt Practices Act 1854, though these measures proved largely ineffectual. |
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He proved to be ineffectual and did not significantly expand the empire. |
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John Holland gave a powerful and often quite funny account of the scheming Burgrave, while Leonard Whiting bumbled along as the ineffectual music teacher. |
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Capua was again put under Norman rule after the Siege of Capua of 1098 and the city quickly declined in importance under a series of ineffectual Norman rulers. |
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