| 单词 | ineffectual |
| 例句 | Louis Swift and the other packers added their voices, expressing frustration over the ineffectual government that was keeping black laborers away from work. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Labor unions, an avenue for upward mobility for Northern workers, had been rendered ineffectual or were demolished altogether by the Dixie plutocracy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The name he shouted was that of the TV character most synonymous with the archetypical skinny, ineffectual, small-town policeman. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Bennet’s schemes for this day were ineffectual. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Even with a superior corporate organization, Microsoft would not be successful with an ineffectual leader. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But I find God to be an ineffectual shrink. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z From this meager beginning had sprung the ineffectual squadron commander who was now spending the better part of each working day in Pianosa forging Washington Irving’s name to official documents. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z You can imagine the situation: the pale knights starting to their feet in the candlelight, the ineffectual attempts at aid, and their supposing eyes turning upon one another with ashamed suspicion. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She could already see that losing her temper, which she did rarely because she was so afraid of being ineffectual, would only turn him away, leaving her still outside the gate, railing futilely. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Whenever Mrs. Tallis exercised authority in the absence of her husband, the children felt obliged to protect her from seeming ineffectual. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She made no ineffectual efforts to conduct her household en bonne ménagère, going and coming as it suited her fancy, and, so far as she was able, lending herself to any passing caprice. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z She made no ineffectual efforts to conduct her household en bonne m4nagdre, going and coming as it suited her fancy, and, so far as she was able, lending herself to any passing caprice. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z But he sees firsthand how they can be so loosely allied as to be basically ineffectual—they are wretched and filthy; they live in holes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He watched the flying fish burst out again and again and the ineffectual movements of the bird. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He numbered them through his fringe, glimpsed the ineffectual smoke. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I said, and my careless tone, my little ineffectual smile would scarcely have deceived a child. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Piggy tiptoed to the triangle, his ineffectual protest made, and joined the others. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z General Halleck had shuffled the generals at Pittsburg Landing after the battle there, assigning Grant to an ineffectual position as assistant commander and taking command of the field himself. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The first afternoon following the discovery that A-T and G-C base pairs had similar shapes, he went back to his thesis measurements, but his effort was ineffectual. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Finding them all ineffectual, I attempted to rouse the system by wrapping the whole body...in blankets dipped in warm vinegar.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “What’s so weird about it, Cochran? The boy’s obviously a misfit. He tried in his small ineffectual way to damage the sale and he succeeded in doing the opposite. The school rallied against him.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They took turns getting on top of each other, trading ineffectual blows with inharmonious sound effects that made it seem as though they were fighting to the death. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “The spells that make the attic impenetrable function only if it is occupied by children. Without children, or with adults in the room, the barriers become ineffectual.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She still longs for Ali, a strapping, handsome contrast to her kind but ineffectual husband, while the oblivious Hassan tries to arrange a marriage for his cousin. Review: In ‘Sins of the Flesh,’ One Prison Replaces Another 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z He’s busted out of FBI custody, and the feds, a pathetically ineffectual bunch, can’t catch him. Schwarzenegger falls flat in ‘The Last Stand’ 2013-01-17T20:08:44Z It’s the achingly sad lament of those on the receiving end of these immensely powerful, expertly choreographed and ultimately ineffectual agents of obliteration that landed in their fields and villages. Making Art Out of Bombshells and Memories in Vietnam 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Richard's vulnerability resonates and builds throughout his cheerful and generally ineffectual staff coaching, as when Birney slowly and visibly deflates after one staffer thoughtlessly turns a feel-good exercise into a negative contemplation. Review: Office vibe turns comical in 'Core Values' 2013-05-09T18:49:07Z Tolstoy had come to find something broken and ineffectual in the world of the prattling intelligentsia. Life at One of England’s Last Tolstoyan Communes 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z But Stiller has a comic rage that was consistently endearing: plucky, ineffectual with hints of warmth. In Jerry Stiller, the Rage of Jewish Fathers Found a Hilarious Outlet 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Siegel generalizes: “I propose that one of the sources and essential traits of Jewish humor is a disdain for authority that is rooted in an experience of weakened, ineffectual fathers.” The divine madness of Groucho Marx 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z It paints cooperative human action as ineffectual – even counterproductive – when set beside the powerful forces that actually rule the planet. Kong: Skull Island – why do Hollywood blockbusters have such Trump-like politics? 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z But girl math was co-opted and evolved to apply to all types of illogical thinking or ineffectual action based on real-world situations. Girl math vs. Boy math: an insight into the internet's tit-for-tat battle of the sexes 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z But Tom, a diffident veterinarian, was dithering and ineffectual, while Cromwell is, as the play’s director, Jeremy Herrin, said by telephone, “Effectual with a capital E.” Ben Miles Takes on ‘Wolf Hall’ Onstage 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, in this alternative history, Lindbergh didn’t remain an ineffectual agitator. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Better Call Saul’ and ‘The Plot Against America’ 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z I suspect the play is really an indictment of both generations: the self-seeking individualism of Thatcher's children and their ineffectual offspring, who talk a good ethical game while lacking the capacity for action. Children's Children – review 2012-05-25T11:20:12Z They devote themselves to helping her though treatment, also guiding their Shakespeare-spouting but otherwise ineffectual father through this terrible time. Books of The Times: A Family Speaks in Someone Else?s Words, but at Least It Chooses the Best 2011-01-16T18:30:55Z Russia, exhausted and desperate from three years of disastrous war with Germany and its allies, was being run by ineffectual and well-meaning moderates. Missed connection 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Other forms are easily bypassed, rendering them ineffectual. Fever? Sore Throat? They Just Check ‘No’ 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Farrell went against type in last year’s The Lobster, portraying an ineffectual and timid man in search of love in a hostile world. How to stage a Hollywood comeback 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Of course, we’ve enjoyed our share of villainous presidents, whether they were ineffectual buffoons or blustering pretenders to the Resolute Desk. Perspective | Trump’s exit may be too late to save the presidential movie 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Rather, they simply recognize the limits of law in policing fidelity, and the excessive costs of ineffectual attempts to do so. Your affair might be illegal: Inside the complicated world — and 21 states — where adultery remains against the law 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z And there’s more: Jeff Flake, the ineffectual — but square-jawed — former Republican senator, who was the occasional darling of the Trump resistance, benefited when he signed on with CBS as a contributor this week. Perspective | The media feel safest in the middle lane. Just ask Jeff Flake, John Kasich and Howard Schultz. 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Without a sophisticated understanding of this ongoing threat, our policies in the Middle East are doomed to be ineffectual — or worse, self-destructive. “The Islamic State would not be with us today if the United States hadn’t invaded Iraq”: Islam, religion, and the interview Donald Trump and Ted Cruz must read now 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z We duly meet the well-meaning but ineffectual social worker and discover that the boorish loud-mouth of a neighbour actually has a heart of gold. Some Other Mother – review 2013-06-11T18:26:49Z The rest featured lazy but lovable suburban fathers surrounded by machinery they couldn't service themselves -- see also: soothing tales of learned helplessness to make the ineffectual masses feel less soft and worthless. In search of this year's "30 Rock" 2010-10-02T23:01:00Z I felt like my father must have felt when dealing with my mother: impotent and ineffectual. My son, the repeat offender 2013-01-24T18:16:00Z But all these experts agreed that ethical individual shopping choices, while admirable, are ineffectual without a larger organizing drive to focus change efforts. Sweatshops still make your clothes 2013-03-21T15:36:00Z If the material itself proves to be ordinary and ineffectual at conveying what we want to convey, I don't care how you shoot it. Katrina and all that jazz 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z There was an overwhelming odor of mildew, made worse by a sputtering and ineffectual air-conditioning system. Personal Journeys: With Vacation Rentals, a Little Family Drama 2012-08-03T16:56:06Z Lighthearted diversions are definitely not on the menu at the treatment center where this wan, ineffectual comedy-drama is set. | 'Family Week': Beth Henley Revival Opens at Lucille Lortel 2010-05-05T02:26:00Z Walton has written interesting papers on how the use of torture is not only repellent and illegal, but also ineffectual. Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton – review 2013-01-31T11:00:01Z Like Blair, who for a time was viewed by sections of the press as an affable but ineffectual leader – who now remembers the supreme manipulator being mocked as "Bambi"? Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre - review 2011-07-15T21:55:11Z In her view, the EU, which Romania joined in 2007, is culpably ineffectual against the half-democracies of the former Eastern bloc. Herta Müller: a life in books 2012-11-30T22:55:01Z It fuses ineffectual elements of discontent into a program that can pack quite a wallop. Review: ‘The Death and Life of Great American Cities,’ by Jane Jacobs 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z If the material itself proves to be ordinary and ineffectual at conveying what we want to convey, I don’t care how you shoot it. Magazine Preview: The HBO Auteur: David Simon 2010-03-17T14:56:00Z Except for an ineffectual priest and an imam, whose houses of worship sit side by side, those men are hotheaded bumpkins who profess brotherhood until the tiniest provocation incites them to blind fury. Movie Review: ?Where Do We Go Now?,? From Nadine Labaki 2012-05-10T23:24:34Z If a nation’s reading habits reveal its character, as he believes they do, we are “an infirm, ineffectual tribe still stuck in some sort of larval stage.” A Critic Who Worships Literature, and Defends His Faith Accordingly 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z As for the rather goofy Prince Phillip, his ineffectual kiss is not laughed at, and when we last see him and Aurora they seem to be happily getting to know each other. Love's True Kiss: 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Their decision to promote guidelines, however, was criticized by some nutritionists and eating-disorder specialists as an ineffectual response. Efforts to Stop Use of Underage Models During New York Fashion Week 2012-02-08T21:05:40Z After eight years of ineffectual Republican control, the Department of Labor, and specifically the Occupational Health and Safety Administration, would be in friendly hands. NH post office cuts hours 2012-06-25T15:30:00Z Let’s start with our gold medalist in the field of ineffectual apologies – Rick Ross. The best and worst apologies of the week 2013-03-29T14:58:00Z Thanks to a ghastly combination of warring drug cartels, poverty and virtually ineffectual law enforcement, the city has become one of the most dangerous in the world. A better border is possible 2012-05-26T22:00:00Z While the show was in the early stages of development, he characterized Random Acts to the website Film Comment as a response to “how ineffectual political satire is on television”. 'How do we celebrate, not satirize?': inside the world of Terence Nance 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z In her tweet, AOC refers to the gender-swapped version of the girl math meme going viral on social that implies some type of illogical thinking or ineffectual action based on real-word situations. AOC slams Speaker Kevin McCarthy's "boy math" with a government shutdown looming 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z The two authors argue for the historic importance of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, an international agreement usually dismissed by historians as ineffectual and quixotic. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z It doesn’t help that Charlotte is a completely underdeveloped character who comes off mostly as dull and ineffectual. ‘Kindred’ Review: A Dreary, Derivative Hostage Thriller 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z Now, to be clear, I’m not talking about sad-sack, ineffectual, layabout “omegas,” a type that became popular in Hollywood in the wake of the recession, as Jessica Grose pointed out at the time in Slate. In praise of the “beta male” 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z The trouble with "Stronger" is that Earl's vision is an ineffectual grasp at simple substance through song. Review: Kate Earl's writing is iffy on 'Stronger' 2012-11-19T19:04:08Z But Reagan’s most ubiquitous prevention program, D.A.R.E, was ineffectual at best. Cloudy vision: Jeff Sessions wants to revive Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign with a renewed focus on weed 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Gathering online around the hashtag #TolstoyTogether, readers perhaps unsurprisingly found themselves drawn to a book about a country grappling with uncertainty and ordinary people subjected to the whims of mercurial and ineffectual political leaders. Leo Tolstoy vs. the Police 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z American prison sporks are generally plastic, orange in color and very ineffectual because it is vital that they should not be used as weapons. Consider the spork 2012-10-06T16:00:00Z Baffling, and weirdly passive and ineffectual — almost like a child’s. Middle Age Doesn’t Happen ‘Just Like That’ 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Set in 2022, the grim “Submission” unfolds in self-absorbed narration and ineffectual nattering about politics. Review | Extremism rules ‘Submission,’ but soul swings ‘Three Sistahs’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z This is little more than a convenient dodge for ineffectual care, and a needless burden to place on the shoulders of addicts. Debunking Alcoholics Anonymous: Behind the myths of recovery 2014-04-05T18:00:00Z He switches the gender of the ineffectual law enforcement officer and plants an equally ineffectual red-herring, in the form of an insinuating scar, on her person. Review: In ‘Cabin Fever,’ the Flesh-Eating Virus Strikes Again 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z She burns with rage and disbelief as she encounters ineffectual cops, her passive ex-husband, and others whose lack of urgency or concern infuriates her. In the gripping "La Civil," a daughter is kidnapped as the fallout of Mexico's ongoing drug wars 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Iris can be sardonic and ruthless in her observations, especially about her simple and ineffectual ex-husband. In ‘My Name Is Iris,’ a Mother Learns the Limits of Protectiveness 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Eight days into a two-week sailing course in New Zealand, I felt like the young and ineffectual officer in “Master and Commander” who ends his troubles by jumping off the ship holding a cannonball. A senior’s intense, 14-day sailing lesson — from scratch — off the New Zealand coast 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Even as we’ve shuffled off the image of the ineffectual nebbish, we’ve still been typified as bookish and cerebral instead of masculine in the most conventional sense. Why I love the shameless, gory, Nazi-killing catharsis of Amazon's Hunters 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z June 15th: Amid a spate of ineffectual American operas on inoffensive themes, David T. Little’s “Dog Days,” which had its première in 2012 and which I saw in a presentation by the L.A. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2015 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z But its creative output appears to be hobbled by the same structural problems that led to the two fiascos – which is to say, too many layers of stifling yet ineffectual middle management. The best television of 2012: Andrew Anthony's choice 2012-12-15T22:00:05Z Not so much the main man, Lucifer, but an ineffectual Beelzebub? My Mad Fat Diary: Rae Earl describes her childhood mental health issues 2013-01-21T08:00:02Z Horgan made John Paul frightening, like these characters, but also ineffectual. How Sharon Horgan Shaped a Monstrous Brother-in-Law 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, Mr. Roth clogs the segment with a lot of ineffectual Godardian posturings and peoples it with a handful of pompous, affected graduate school types. Review: ‘The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger’ Lauds a Renaissance Man 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z In a violent reaction of remorse and PTSD, they retreat together into a messy rat hole — the reality of the pristine idyll we saw at the start — in a grimly ineffectual attempt at healing. Cataclysmic Suffering Sprawls Through the Prototype Festival 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z In The Hateful Eight, the word is most often folded into a kind of stylized riffing, potentially offensive if that sort of thing troubles you and nearly invisible—and thus ineffectual—if it doesn’t. Review: Quentin Tarantino's Hateful Eight Revels in Snow, Not So Much in People 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Sometimes, these feelings burst out in sad, ineffectual ways. Two Novels About Frustrated White Men, Thirty-five Years Apart 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Prison governors are either ineffectual figureheads or, as in the case of Bad Girls' Helen Stewart, too busy having a scorching affair with an inmate to notice the chaos all around. Women's TV prison dramas: 10 vital ingredients 2013-07-10T12:04:00Z Among regular people, he disguises himself as an ordinary, ineffectual fellow. Review: Mike Kelley Uncorks Superman’s Kandor City in a Bottle 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z “The two root causes of climate change,” she repeatedly insists, are “the loss of albedo” — i.e., the reflective power of polar ice — and desertification “caused by ineffectual rainfall.” A Memoir That Sees Only the Tip of the Melting Iceberg 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z It’s inoffensive and ineffectual: there is a lot of theatrical emoting to the music, and a lot of faux-sexy, deeply unerotic, “Dancing With the Stars” partnering. Dance Review: Works to Challenge an Audience, or Not 2011-01-27T22:41:02Z I was impressed by how unlikable — how needy and ineffectual, how effete and whiny — Mr. Roth was willing to seem. Books of The Times: In ‘The Scientists,’ Marco Roth Seeks Truth About His Family 2012-09-18T14:03:58Z As embodied with heartbreaking earnestness by Mr. Blum, he is clumsy, irritating and mostly ineffectual. Review: ‘Rancho Viejo,’ Where Banality and Trouble Cohabitate 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z No matter how ineffectual that seems, it’s when we all fall mute that we are truly undone. With Tamir Rice decision, Americans must get off the sidelines 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Selin could be any number of his gentle, ineffectual intellectuals, whose very gentleness and ineffectuality make them so important, according to Nabokov. An Unassuming Heroine Envies Her Harvard Classmates the Confidence of Their Convictions 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Responding to aggression with ingratiation is both ineffectual and immoral. Blind alley 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z He finds self-help books not just “ineffectual” but “odorous.” Finding Alarm and Consolation About the Apocalypse in Two New Books 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z He did so from day one of his term by painting the entire industry as one nebulous cabal of ineffectual antagonists. Jon Stewart is right: How long will the media play Trump’s game? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Over the course of a day, Lisa tries to keep it together as she deals with an ineffectual boss, an awkward attempted robbery and personal problems — both her own, and those of her all-female staff. 9 Movies About Work to Watch This Labor Day 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Some are indifferent, others offer ineffectual solidarity — debating each other rather than engaging the protagonist. An African in Paris, Fighting to Preserve His Dignity 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z In its second season, Mr. Crook and especially Toby Jones continued their marvelous work as small-timers who, most of the time, mask their frustration and rage in hilariously ineffectual diffidence. The Best TV Shows of 2016 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z And de Blasio’s constant complaining about Cuomo in public, as ineffectual as it was, is starting to sound less like an immature squabble than the ringing of a warning bell. Cuomo vs. de Blasio: Clash of egos ends with a whimper 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Police, government officials and doctors all appear in the film - all equally ineffectual. Faith vs love in Cannes entry 'Beyond the Hills' 2012-05-19T14:45:10Z “I don’t know if it’s Shakespearean,” Horgan said, “but the idiot provides relief. I like that he was someone who was incredibly in control and dangerous, but at times, was also an ineffectual person.” How Sharon Horgan Shaped a Monstrous Brother-in-Law 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z So drippy and ineffectual has he been throughout the series, you forget Arthur was first introduced to us, bare-bottomed and giving ye local towne bike a good seeing-to under a tree. Camelot: episode nine 2011-07-30T21:01:00Z Tyler and Jackson went along, after a few ineffectual murmers of protest. Just say no, J. Lo: 'American Idol' judges waffle in season opener 2011-01-20T07:31:04Z The increasingly disaffected Walker, who just wants his money back, finds that he has to work his way up a corporate ladder of crime, disposing of one ineffectual boss after another. John Boorman Tribute at Film Forum Goes Beyond ‘Deliverance’ 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z But as its hapless vampires stumble into positions of leadership in the Vampiric Council in the current season, they have become perfect symbols for our broken, ineffectual political system. Why the Vampire Myth Won’t Die 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z The "Fishing" pirates are so frustratingly ineffectual there's a mutiny. 'Fishing Without Nets' fails to catch interest 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z In one ineffectual detour, Diana smashes lamps in an attempt to hide from her pursuer. ‘Dark Glasses’ Review: She Wears Her Shades at Night 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z All of this action is set against the backdrop of a freshly resurgent and gleaming downtown L.A., where the local media is singularly cynical and opportunistic, the police force incompetent and ineffectual. Learning to Look at L.A. 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z The sequence of Melrose novels – his publisher likes the term "Melrosiad", coined by a reviewer in the Guardian – concluded this year with At Last, which recounted the funeral of Patrick's well-meaning but ineffectual mother. Edward St Aubyn: 'Writing is horrible' 2011-08-17T20:30:02Z They were fed up with their ineffectual government, and on their smartphones they watched the progress of an opposition leader, the former journalist Nikol Pashinyan, as he walked in protest across central Armenia. Reverent Beauty: The Met’s Armenia Show Is One for the Ages 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Heinz goes off with his girlfriend, but in his ineffectual befuddlement, still does clueless things like leaving giant, elaborate bouquets of flowers for Nathalie at the home they used to share. Review: Isabelle Huppert Shines in the Quiet French Jewel Things to Come 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z You start to suspect that it was actually the ineffectual nebbish persona that was the phony one. Anna Gunn on the End of ‘Breaking Bad’ 2013-08-07T19:49:17Z The deciding vote in the room becomes Kendall, who is become increasingly ineffectual, unable to choose a direction and impressionable. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z On the flip side, Michaels is being criticized for hocking "diet pills" at all, especially with ingredients that some say are "dangerous," others "ineffectual." Why "The Biggest Loser" is the most American show 2010-05-25T19:01:00Z Dominic’s family lost close to $200,000— their total retirement savings—on this string of ineffectual programs. The pseudo-science of Alcoholics Anonymous: There’s a better way to treat addiction 2014-03-23T18:30:00Z The police are investigating the case energetically enough to question Grace, but they’re about as ineffectual as detective story police get: They seem to forget about the killing halfway through the story. Books of The Times: ‘You Should Have Known’ Is Jean Hanff Korelitz’s New Novel 2014-03-26T20:50:10Z His oppressed wife is more sympathetic but totally ineffectual. Mary Broome ? review 2011-03-21T18:27:12Z Below are 13 of the best examples of his longstanding — and hilariously ineffectual — animus toward the leader of the free world: Colbert vs. Obama: The battle of the century 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z “The Season of the Witch” suggests that prison hasn’t changed Naz so much as revealed his true self, some dark and angry impulse that his ineffectual college-kid act cannily obscured. ‘The Night Of’ Season 1, Episode 5: Seeing Naz in a New Light 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z Which brings me to the second reason for writing an endorsement editorial — even if it proves ineffectual and even if it deeply angers some readers: Publishing them is the right thing to do. Red-state newspaper endorsements of Clinton are not as pointless as they look 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z And we can expect more "sex strikes" and other ineffectual viral activism attempts from white celebrities to follow suit. Withholding sex is not the answer to abortion bans: The spectacle of celebrity "pro-choice" activism 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z In her voice, the inner lives of Korvette’s seething, ineffectual men come bubbling to the surface. A Punk Band That Knows “The Bar Is Low” for Straight White Men 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Combes said he’s spoken with dozens of ex-observers, and while they are all proud of their service, some admit the system might have been ineffectual. Across Britain, Silent Relics of the Cold War 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z A genuinely unshockable culture would surely find public executions and great Shakespearean tragedies equally ineffectual. Shakespeare's Restless World by Neil MacGregor - review 2012-11-23T22:55:02Z In both cases, the veracity of what they claim isn't as crucial to the larger societal discourse about worker mistreatment, ineffectual human resource departments and terrible bosses. Why we should be thanking Joss Whedon and Jeff Garlin for their candor about workplace misconduct 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z Not too long ago television mined comedy from fictional visions of ineffectual governance. Smart Watch: This week’s TV heroines who nevertheless persist 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z When Superman and Batman doffed their costumes to become Clark Kent or Bruce Wayne, they revealed personae as ineffectual as Don Diego, the ennui-ridden, apolitical dandy who delights in playing parlor tricks with his handkerchief. Zorro at 100: Why the original swashbuckler is still the quintessential American action hero 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Not unlike the blank black squares that flooded Instagram last summer, sex strikes are uniquely, comically out of touch and ineffectual, purporting to make a very public sacrifice that no one really asked for. Withholding sex is not the answer to abortion bans: The spectacle of celebrity "pro-choice" activism 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z But the direst consequences of Donald Trump's ineffectual stewardship of the country affect us even now. "The Good Fight" is as gripping as ever as it tackles Jan. 6, race and ethics in 2021 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z It’s the story of Lou Ford, a deputy sheriff in a small Texas town, seemingly bland and ineffectual, who turns out to be a compulsive and heartless killer. Film: Jim Thompson?s ?Killer Inside Me? Is Made Into a Film 2010-06-03T17:07:00Z Mr. Bryan has a soft, often ineffectual touch, but he’s appealingly loose and charismatic. Critic?s Notebook: Eric Church and Jason Aldean, Country Music Outlaws 2012-03-28T23:11:05Z "Would you like some tea?" she quavers, desperately trying to ignore the profound threat embodied by the other, but her evasions soon fading into ineffectual squeaks and gibbers. I Don't Believe in Outer Space ? review 2011-02-27T00:05:44Z This is a writer chronicling ineffectual, loving humanity, who, in dealing with dirt, sees the world in a grain of sand. First among equals 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The Republicans got painted as dim-witted bullies, but the Democrats were ineffective and ineffectual – you choose which one’s more embarrassing. How late-night comedy went from political to politicized 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z How can you be so consistently and maddeningly ineffectual? 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: Casualties of war 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z In Tim Robbins' satire "Bob Roberts," Vidal played an aging and ineffectual senator who is no match for cynical times. The great, and entitled Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T21:11:12Z Those of us dubious about tomorrow’s world feel as ineffectual as Canute holding back the tide. My 13-year-old son sent a sexually explicit email to his teacher 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Both Kamanger and Dr. Alon Steinberg, a cardiologist, said Murray's admission that he didn't call 911 for at least 20 minutes and his ineffectual resuscitation efforts left Jackson with little chance for survival. Experts focusing on Jackson doctor's missteps 2011-10-13T17:11:08Z Despite his fuming aversion to party politics, Mr. Black says he looks forward to Election Day because that is when he feels “most ineffectual,” thus making every other day seem rich in achievement. Theater Review: ‘Lewis Black: Running on Empty,’ at Richard Rodgers Theater 2012-10-11T02:00:00Z And I believe what I always said, that the mass collection of data is not only illegal, it’s ineffectual. Five Novelists Imagine Trump’s Next Chapter 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z As Guthrie did last week, Welker needs to stay firmly in charge, not relying on weak rejoinders like the endless and ineffectual pleas of “thank you, Mr. Vice President,” as Page did. Perspective | What Kristen Welker can learn from Savannah Guthrie about dealing with Trump 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z According to Ligeti, who died in 2006, the original version was received “with some difficulty” because of excessive spoken dialogue, thick orchestration and a hasty, ineffectual ending. Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z Obsessing over doing the right thing, debating and questioning every move — they're beyond ineffectual. None of us are getting in The Good Place: NBC's comedy exposes the impossibility of virtue today 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z History is all intrigues and executions, beautiful ineffectual ladies and poisoning queens, love-stories and villainies, steeped in Dickensian melodrama and embroidered with the theatrical effects of a Bleak House or an Oliver Twist. Remember Roger Mortimer 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z There's genuine hurt and hope in their exchanges, but their power is diluted by the strangely ineffectual, meandering movie around them. An inconsistent 'Wild Horses' from Robert Duvall 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z But we might as well take whatever we can from these films – as works of art or entertainment – since they have proved so ineffectual as cautionary tales. Cleopatra and Heaven's Gate: the last of the great Hollywood stinkers? 2013-07-19T13:00:00Z Otherwise I’m just largely ineffectual, and I’m trying not to be. Why William Jackson Harper of ‘The Good Place’ Can’t Quit the Theater 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z If following procedure is so laughably ineffectual, then when do you realize where the line is drawn? 'Narcos' Episode 2 Recap: Death to Kidnappers 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z The journalists also discovered that the disinfectant used in hospitals across the country was being watered down, to the extent that it was largely ineffectual, probably resulting in many more deaths. Since the Oscar-Nominated ‘Collective,’ Much and Little Has Changed 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, “Rogue City,” which is streaming on Netflix, is also an ineffectual muddle. ‘Rogue City’ Review: An Action Movie Skimping on Action 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Murphy also finds his subject to be perversely, almost purposefully, ineffectual. ‘Scalia: A Court of One,’ by Bruce Allen Murphy 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Also, my spirit animal is a T. rex: I’ve got powerful, muscular legs but tiny, ineffectual arms. Exploring Kauai’s Na Pali Coast by air, land and sea 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Her replacement as prime minister, the dully ineffectual John Major, has failed to repair the sclerotic economy, which has slid into recession. A Low Point for the Monarchy, in a New Season of ‘The Crown’ 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z While other artists might have feared accusations of "radical chic", BC encouraged them – as if to say that all left activism had become so ineffectual that all one could do is make a fashion statement. Bernadette Corporation: 'Don't have sex with each other' 2013-03-24T21:00:01Z His biggest movie role to date was as the ineffectual junior rabbi in the Coen brothers’ A Serious Man. Simon Helberg: from Big Bang nerd to Meryl Streep’s cartoonish pianist 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z But all of these effects are ineffectual, when it comes to Serge making human connections with the people who drift in to watch them. Theater review: Irony, whimsy, isolation, tedium in French troupe's 'L'Effet de Serge' 2011-04-15T20:21:04Z On record there are confines and boundaries, but onstage there aren’t, and whatever concision Cloud Nothings achieved on this album was often threatened by its interest in extended, ineffectual instrumental passages. Music Review: Cloud Nothings at the Studio at Webster Hall 2012-01-28T02:24:57Z Red Tractor is yet another voluntary scheme, and has been criticized as ineffectual for encouraging improvements to the environment and animal welfare on farms. Environmental plan for England asks farmers to "restore nature" 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Dimly lit potatoes Much of the biennial is bland and well-meant, and as ineffectual as sun cream in a Merseyside September. Back in business at the Liverpool Biennial 2010-09-20T20:30:00Z Recognizing that Giovanni’s amorous quests in the opera are surprisingly ineffectual, Mr. Martinoty supplies him with additional female fodder at key points. Opera Review: In Austria, Stellar Cast Makes Strauss's 'Frau' Shimmer 2010-12-22T13:28:52Z Having the elegant tenor Matthew Polenzani take on the thankless role of the ineffectual Leicester is luxury casting indeed. DiDonato a luminous Mary Stuart at Met 2013-01-01T09:46:04Z Their ineffectual gestures leave them disoriented and defenceless. The Pre-War House and Other Stories by Alison Moore – review 2013-05-17T13:01:01Z He is a bleeding-heart liberal comfortably ensconced in a fundamentally conservative milieu, a court jester whose proximity to power underscores his impotence, a critical intellect whose aloofness renders him ineffectual. ‘Mank’ Review: A Rosebud by Any Other Name 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z As the ballet proceeds, it also proves to be littered with absurd and ineffectual entrances and exits. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Revisits Three Works 2012-06-01T22:46:12Z Rated R for “strong violence,” as opposed to the weak ineffectual kind. Review: In ‘Upgrade,’ Better Killing Through Technology 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z So much for the mousy, ineffectual witch who can’t seem to summon up any power when the chips are down and the apocalypse looms. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: 'Awakening' of Katrina 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z A political controversy erupted when New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd reported last year that the White House was "counting on" the film to "counter Obama's growing reputation as ineffectual." Writer says bin Laden film, trailer not politically motivated 2012-08-08T21:07:43Z An empty shell with two overused presets – standing up for the good acts, ineffectual simpering for the bad – Scherzinger couldn't be more insipid if she was made of mist. The X Factor 2012: could Mel B set it back on track? 2012-08-20T11:19:31Z Tobias, genially ineffectual as he pours himself and Claire another drink, questions whether he has any fellow feeling left in him. 'Delicate Balance' teeters slightly but always fascinates 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Instead, a peace accord, reached in 1996, has been followed by a series of largely ineffectual civilian leaders. Pamela Yates?s ?Granito? Revisits Guatemala 2011-09-11T03:36:29Z The shelves of benign notebooks that had sat so innocently in their cupboard, had been hiding monstrous cries of agony from the mother I had thought was just cold, quiet, inaccessible and ineffectual. ‘My parents’ life was a charade. Mum hated every minute of it’ 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Keaton’s character was now ineffectual; his natural grace was exploited to convey clumsiness. On Video: Buster Keaton’s Talkie ‘Free and Easy’ Comes to DVD 2014-03-23T19:49:40Z In the Kerry Low Low Cheese ad, which features a mouse dodging thousands of traps, he comments that the ad is about how ineffectual mousetraps are. Jimmy Carr to hijack GoCompare ad 2010-04-01T13:42:00Z Enforcement of criminal prohibitions has been infrequent, intrusive, idiosyncratic, and ineffectual, and should be unconstitutional. Your affair might be illegal: Inside the complicated world — and 21 states — where adultery remains against the law 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z An ineffectual Palestinian Authority controls the West Bank and has little credibility with the population it governs. Mission impossible? Biden says Mideast leaders must consider a two-state solution after the war ends 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z His early days as a backbencher were slow and ineffectual. Matt Gaetz got what he wanted. Now what? 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Now, Republicans are fuming at the rebels in their ranks for rendering Congress impotent and ineffectual at a time when legislation and additional funding could be needed to help one of America’s closest allies. McCarthy Allies Criticize Far Right for Leaderless House as Israel Is Attacked 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z Ideally, conservatorship breaks people out of a cycle of ineffectual and traumatic coercion and gets them onto a path to more enduring recovery. Opinion: California needs new rules as it forces more mentally ill people into treatment 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Fisher is one of dozens who recently sought help from the commissioner for this problem and found the state ineffectual. How wildfire risk scoring puts WA homeowners in insurance jeopardy 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z However, many victims and their families say the process has been slow and ineffectual. Chile marks military coup as divisions continue 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Even when it comes to the political arena, which has a lot more space for outright lying, Trump's strategy has been ineffectual. Beware, Trump conspirators! Rudy's latest loss is a reminder that the courtroom is your kryptonite 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Facebook parent company Meta said on Tuesday it had uncovered links between people associated with Chinese law enforcement and a long-running but largely ineffectual operation to positively influence people on social media about China. US restricts exports of some Nvidia chips to Middle East countries -filing 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Until last year, he had been considered an especially ineffectual politician. India’s Top Court Clears Way for Rahul Gandhi’s Return to Parliament 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z They have sometimes been, by turns, stolid, corrupt and ineffectual, but virtually any semblance of organization is better than nothing, because non-union workers don’t strike. Opinion: The SAG-AFTRA actors' strike shows L.A. is leading the labor movement 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z So far it’s a combination of punishing and ineffectual, a anti-abortion facade. In the WA v. Idaho abortion wars, data shows Idaho is losing 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z But in court is where it's especially ineffectual to leverage the "lie a lot, with confidence" tactics. Beware, Trump conspirators! Rudy's latest loss is a reminder that the courtroom is your kryptonite 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Prigozhin said on Monday that a one-day mutiny had been intended not to overthrow Russia's government but to register a protest over what he said was its ineffectual conduct of the war in Ukraine. Jet linked to mercenary Prigozhin flies to Belarus from Russia 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Known as General Armageddon, he commanded the invasion force briefly last year and was behind the largely ineffectual bombing campaign against civilian targets. Wagner, Prigozhin, Putin and Shoigu: Bitter rivalries that led to a rebellion 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z You render victory over enemies' ineffectual attempts at trying to stop this holy seed. "Unfriending" America: The Christian right is coming for the enemies of God — like you and me 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z The other panel shows figures energetically leaping over the barking beast, its growling threat shown to be ineffectual. Review: Keith Haring's art might not be for everybody, but he is 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z “They are foreseeable consequences of corruption, state capture, technocratic ineptitude and unethical and ineffectual leadership by the A.N.C.-misled government.” Eusebius McKaiser, Acerbic South African Political Analyst, Dies at 44 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Likewise, there were many times during the Middle Ages when individual popes were weak and ineffectual and could not even command obedience within the church hierarchy itself. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In his case, say experts who reviewed related documents at Science’s request, the agency was either remiss or ineffectual, compounding a failure of the two institutions to adequately protect victims. NIH rules are supposed to stop ‘pass the harasser.’ In one recent case, they appear to have failed 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Antitrust has become so ineffectual that many big corporations face little or no competition. The corporate attack on democracy 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z A feckless cabal forms a touchingly ineffectual pseudo-religion that turns out to harbor real cosmic truth. Review | Charles Portis, model outsider, gets the canon treatment 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z That combination, Ms. Tocci said, can do serious damage to public faith in the justice system — the defendant’s supporters see the system as illegitimate, while the leader’s opponents see it as ineffectual. Many Democracies Have Prosecuted Ex-Leaders. The Politics Can Be Tough. 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z In the end, they became relatively weak and ineffectual, with another clan, the Carolingians, running most of their political affairs. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of an unwillingness to crack down on criminals, or because of a more insidious, latent belief in ineffectual Black leadership in times of crisis? The spectacular fall of Lori Lightfoot and the politics of race and crime 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Critics have described Carter's foreign policies as "ineffectual" and "hopelessly muddled," and their formulation demonstrated "weakness and indecision." Jimmy Carter's lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle Soviet Union 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z It busies liberals and the educated with a boutique activism, which is not only ineffectual but exacerbates the divide between the privileged and a working class in deep economic distress. Diversity, "wokeness" and violent oppression: Lessons of the Tyre Nichols case 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z Their embarrassing performance at Tuesday night’s State of the Union address — where President Biden handled their boorish heckling with ease, making them look both obnoxious and ineffectual — put them in a hole. Opinion | The Republican clown-car caucus is undermining itself 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Khatib and her team spoke to the girl for more than four hours, using largely ineffectual wooden struts to prop up the collapsed debris. ‘I saw death’: Rescuers in rebel-held Syria plead for help after quake 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Supplied with superior military equipment, the Saudi soldiers that held Khafji offered ineffectual resistance. Don't believe the hype: Ukraine is rapidly becoming another war gone wrong 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z His youth and soft-spoken approach have endeared him to voters who don’t associate him with the ineffectual bombast of the previous political generation. Cyprus picks new president amid economic doubt, ethnic split 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Republicans are betting that TV stagecraft will carry more political weight than the fact that their so-called investigations are pointless and ineffectual. The laptop from hell and other stories: Your guide to 2023 congressional investigations 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Some nationalist military bloggers compared the reshuffling to a game of musical chairs among Moscow’s ineffectual military old guard. Your Thursday Briefing 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z And some nationalist military bloggers compared the reshuffle to a game of musical chairs among Moscow’s ineffectual military old guard. Your Thursday Briefing: A Russian Military Shake-Up 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z “These are measures that will render the ethics office ineffectual and which no member, from either party, should support,” said Craig Holman, a government affairs lobbyist with the watchdog group Public Citizen. New House Rules Make It Easier to Dump Speaker, Harder to Spend or Raise Taxes 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Institutions for adjudicating the worst offenses of fascist rule are often slow, ineffectual or even nonexistent. Review | Why is it so hard to bring brutal despots to justice? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z An ineffectual day for this group in the passing game — three receptions on six targets for 30 yards — and the blocking was a struggle all day in the running game. Reporter Bob Condotta grades the Seahawks’ 30-24 loss to the Panthers 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z That seems as ineffectual, only in the opposite direction. Between prison and pamphlets: WA looks for an answer to the drug crisis 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z Dr Ahmad says that even though his personal stand was that the museum was ineffectual, the community had a right to preserve their culture. 'Miya' Museum: The controversy around Assam's 'Muslim' museum 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z It was that error — presuming the country to be an ineffectual non-state ruled by an illegitimate government — which was used to justify the invasion in the first place. Putin's massive mistake: Lawrence Freedman on Ukraine and the lessons of history 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z The question is whether Mr. Putin would rather keep that pressure on, ensuring one more headache for President Biden and potentially making him look ineffectual, or would prefer to have Mr. Bout. Russia Raises Hopes for Griner’s Release, but U.S. Says It’s Just Talk 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z The groups correctly argue that Mr. Henry’s administration is illegitimate and ineffectual. Opinion | How to help Haiti out of its meltdown 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z Foreign meddlers could launch cyberattacks or exaggerate the effects of relatively ineffectual attacks. EXPLAINER: Threats to US election security grow more complex 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The reigning Defensive Player of the Year should give a pass rush that’s been largely ineffectual in his absence a boost. ‘End of the road’ indeed as Steelers limp into bye reeling 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z The memes received one engagement each, and Meta said the overall operation appeared largely ineffectual at gaining a legitimate following as it struggled to use proper grammar and syntax. China posed as conservatives and liberals to bash U.S. politicians online, Meta says 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Caruso, in turn, depicted Bass as a hidebound member of a failed political class that has been ineffectual at curbing the city’s homelessness and crime — the two issues voters say are their top worries. Bass, Caruso sharpen attacks on ethics, homelessness and their ties to USC 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Biden in May signed an executive order to create a national registry of police officers fired for misconduct that was widely criticized for being ineffectual. Racial justice activists say Biden abandons them with latest crime plan 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Thanks to a hostile Supreme Court, an intentionally ineffectual Federal Election Commission and a similarly feckless Internal Revenue Service, that effort can now be declared an abject failure. Opinion | A $1.6 billion donation points to a bipartisan scandal 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z They believed recent Democratic achievements had changed their image as an ineffectual majority to an effective one. Democrats Sense a Shift in the Political Winds, but It May Not Be Enough 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Introduction of genres and media may be unfocused and ineffectual occasionally. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Despite his efforts to address the hardships that many Americans faced, his ineffectual response to the Great Depression left Americans angry and ready for change. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Still, some analysts questioned whether Mexico’s weak, ineffectual justice system could successfully win convictions in the complex crime. Mexico arrests former attorney general in kidnapping of 43 students 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Integrated Office in Haiti by one year, a measure that went unnoticed by most Haitians, and for good reason: It has been utterly ineffectual. Opinion | As Haiti sinks into pandemonium, the international community is silent 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z That measure appeared likely as of the end of last week, much to the chagrin of some residents, business groups and elected leaders who characterized it an unnecessary and ineffectual overreach. L.A. County could avoid mask mandate this week as coronavirus cases decline 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z The rule of law has seldom seemed more impotent or ineffectual, nor made its believers look more like chumps. The rule of law could use a win 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Likewise, most realized that Hayes would likely be a one-term president at best and prove to be as ineffectual as his pre-Civil War predecessors. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Instead, nearly three decades of ineffectual city initiatives have left nothing more than a 10-acre vacant lot useful only to Gonzalez-Castillo and the shanty dwellers he thinks of as neighbors. After '92 riots, L.A. bought land in Watts and promised jobs. Now, it's weeds and shanties 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z Adding to the complexity were reports that the weapon used in the shooting may have been homemade, meaning that existing gun controls could be ineffectual. Attack on former Japan PM stuns nation known for gun control 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Granted, she has made some missteps, notably by naming a divisive, ineffectual figure, Juanita Miller, as the county’s school board chair. Opinion | The Post endorses Angela Alsobrooks for a second term as Prince George’s County Executive 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z An ineffectual, overwhelmed White House chief of staff who understood that “things might get real, real bad on Jan. 6” — and did nothing to prevent it. Opinion | An aide shatters the Trump White House’s code of silence 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Critics describe the policies as legally tenuous, cynical and ineffectual. Your Thursday Briefing 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z And they did so with policies that critics describe as flimsy, cynical and ineffectual. With Northern Ireland and Migrants, Johnson Swings Cudgel of Survival Politics 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Even though he made clear he’d like to see meaningful gun reform, Mr. Robinson suggested that doing something “hugely ineffectual” is better than doing nothing at all. Opinion | Ineffective gun reform should not be the goal 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z If Congress does something hugely ineffectual, I don’t see how we’ll be any worse off. Opinion | If politicians think gun carnage is acceptable, they should just admit it 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z When it inevitably doesn't – because Republicans never intended to pass any bill of any kind — the blame will fall on Democrats for being weak and ineffectual leaders. Mitch McConnell's Uvalde trap: Democrats rush to participate in their own political sabotage 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z In Africa, American efforts to persuade governments not to work with Wagner have generally been late and ineffectual, the officials said. How the U.S. has struggled to stop the growth of a shadowy Russian private army 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z But when it was realised "stay put" was ineffectual, there was no time to help people escape. Grenfell fire and PEEPs: 'I want to escape a burning building, not sit and wait' 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z “The measure is ineffectual. It establishes a registry system but fails to set deadlines,” said Gustavo Pinheiro, an advisory board member at Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero. Brazil president announces carbon market, thin on details 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Great players often make ineffectual coaches because of the very thing that spurred their fame. Perspective | As an immature coach, Jason Kidd failed. Then he found Luka Doncic. 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z The question is whether those voters will come out for Democratic candidates espousing abortion rights or stay home, furious at Republicans but disenchanted with the ineffectual Democratic Party. The looming end to abortion rights gives liberal Democrats a spark 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z “AIDS care’s ineffectual. Thanks to Koch, the heterosexual.” The Secrets Ed Koch Carried 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z They view the current system as ineffectual, and they think the movers and shakers in Washington look out for elites instead of the little guy, or gal. Opinion | Biden hasn’t lost young voters’ love. He never really had it. 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Throughout the campaign, Mr. Macron appeared disengaged, taken up with countless telephone calls to Mr. Putin that proved ineffectual. Macron to Face Le Pen for President as French Gravitate Toward Extremes 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Because Twitter’s policing of its users’ tweets has been indifferent and ineffectual, the platform often resembles an online version of an open sewer line. Column: Elon Musk's stake in Twitter is not good news for Twitter — or its users 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Influenced by black abolitionists and frustrated by the ineffectual methods of the American Colonization Society, a small but deeply committed number of white antislavery radicals rejected the goal of ending slavery gradually. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z On Tuesday, the commissioners heard a breakdown of a new report from the LAPD’s inspector general, outlining just how ineffectual some of their oversight work has apparently been over the last few years. Column: What happens when 'tough on crime' meets weak on police reform? Not public safety 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z They realize that the checks against them will be mostly weak and ineffectual, as long as the so-called civilized world is left alone. Opinion | Coverage of Ukraine has exposed long-standing racist biases in Western media 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Social media has turned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a former comedian who until recently was seen as an ineffectual and uninspiring leader, into an international idol. Opinion | Putin’s war of aggression has mobilized the strongest international outrage since 9/11 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z To prosecutors, he is a chemical tinkerer who has preyed on horse racing’s ineffectual patchwork regulatory system. As his doping case goes to trial, a veterinarian says it’s horse racing that’s corrupt 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z The issues that plagued them all year — from offensive coordinator Matt Canada’s ineffectual play calling to a defense that was consistently drilled on the road — manifested themselves over the final three quarters. Steelers face long-overdue reboot as Roethlisberger exits 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z The wrangling has made the whole party, including Biden, look ineffectual — and exhaustion with what seems like a forever pandemic hasn’t helped. Opinion | Must Democrats get crushed in 2022? 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z But amid the ineffectual chaos, there is now a push for order. A Movement to Unify the French Left Might Be Its Last Chance for the Elections 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Obviously they are rendered ineffectual on nights when Fasham loses power. CPAP nation: Why millions of Americans willingly go to sleep with a hose strapped to their face 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z It gives me no pleasure to say I think President Ramaphosa will be remembered as a well-meaning and mostly ineffectual leader. 'I’m used to not winning': South African novelist Damon Galgut on his Booker Prize victory 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Ms. Burns, who specializes in domestic violence, describes the criminal justice response to these crimes as ineffectual, like “putting Band-Aids on bullet wounds.” The Woman on the Bridge 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z But the court’s other efforts, which last year included ordering the installation of a pair of air-scrubbing filter towers, have been derided as ineffectual. New Delhi’s Air Turns Toxic, and the Finger-Pointing Begins 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Green Bay looked especially ineffectual on third down, converting just two of 12 chances against a defense that has been horrendous this season. What We Learned From Week 9 in the N.F.L. 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z She criticized world leaders for producing ineffectual pledges and allowing the “exploitation of people and nature.” Young Activists Want Action as Protesters Rally at COP26 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Many criticized Mr. Ramaphosa’s response as slow, and the police and military as ineffectual. He Brokered Apartheid’s End. Can He Save South Africa’s Liberation Party? 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z He has continued that message in his potential bid for governor, suggesting that Ms. Hochul was ineffectual as Mr. Cuomo’s No. 2. Jumaane Williams Runs for One Office With an Eye on Another 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Outgoing City Attorney Pete Holmes’ ineffectual policies were not enough to deter repeat offenders. Stolen Lego scheme shows danger of ignoring petty crime 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z However, the safeguarding review concluded that the police bail was ineffectual. Caitlin Sharp: Vulnerable girl found dead at man's home 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z The Western-backed Somali government is ineffectual in comparison, divided by the corrosive clan politics that have crippled international efforts to unify Somalia’s security services. A C.I.A. Fighter, a Somali Bomb Maker, and a Faltering Shadow War 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Having seen how ineffectual the Republican Party has been, he told me, “I’m wondering, Can it be done somewhere else, and what is the cost, and is the cost worth it?” How the American Right Fell in Love With Hungary 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z In the past, said Jayapal, progressives in Congress were seen as ineffectual: “They’re obstructionist, they don’t really know how to drive power. And honestly I kind of felt that way too when I came in.” Opinion | Pramila Jayapal Won’t Let the Biden Presidency Fail 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z The book, on coalition building, is awash in mocking caricatures of progressives as smug, ineffectual, rigid, self-serious, wonky, disorganized know-it-alls. Opinion | Is It Time for Kyrsten Sinema to Leave the Democratic Party? 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z The transition might not happen at all or the decarbonization process could be so endlessly drawn out over decades as to be wholly ineffectual. Climate-change transition in the Age of Billionaires 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Zuckerberg has become a stubbornly ineffectual bystander to the company he created. Perspective | The whistleblower came to advocate for humans over algorithms 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Recent illegal entrants, especially single adults, will also be targets for removal — a useful way to reinforce the administration’s largely ineffectual efforts until now to discourage illegal border crossing. Opinion | The Biden administration sends mixed signals to undocumented migrants 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z The company’s efforts to share data with researchers to date have been halting and ineffectual. Why Facebook should release the Facebook Files 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z It is a step up from weaker and largely ineffectual measures, including visa restrictions, imposed by the United States in May. Biden Threatens New Sanctions Against Ethiopia War Leaders 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Western democracies have laid the burden of solving the crisis on the ineffectual Assn. of Southeast Asian Nations, a regional organization of states guided by the principle of noninterference. 'The last battle for Myanmar': Citizens take up arms in bid to topple junta 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Good governance advocates denounced the panel, which requires a supermajority of members to pass anything, as ineffectual and designed to fail. New York Will Soon Lose 1 House Seat. The G.O.P. Might Lose 5. 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Our responses had been, to put it charitably, tepid and ineffectual. Opinion | The tragic price of forgetting 9/11 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Maryland should work to fix its ineffectual law, and the University of Maryland should lead the nation in attracting and retaining qualified students of all backgrounds. Opinion | Ban the criminal history question from college applications 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Yet, this meandering, ineffectual, deadly war — the longest in American history — was a grand victory for one behemoth sector of manufacturing that thrives upon tactical failures and stalemates: the military-industrial complex. The war Afghanistan was a huge victory — for the military-industrial complex 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z But Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance recently revealed that Trump's pardon will be ineffectual in the latest proceeding. Jared Kushner pal pardoned by Trump now facing new charges 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z The United States has conducted strikes against the Taliban this summer even as American troops make a final withdrawal from the country, but they have proved largely ineffectual. Fearing Kabul’s Fall, U.S. Officials Implore Afghans to ‘Fight’ 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Congress only to see it stuck in partisanship and with the filibuster albatross rendering it inactive and ineffectual. We all can do more to stop gun violence 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z And how does that contrast with the Democrats' ineffectual response to the 2003 recall of Gray Davis? She predicted the blue wave — now she's trying to prevent a big red one 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z But the book also depicts the president as ineffectual and out of touch while his health and national security officials tried to manage the worsening outbreak. New book offers fresh details about chaos, conflicts inside Trump’s pandemic response 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z “I have a son. A son!” he said, an extremely ineffectual plea to make to women who had their babies stolen by him and his fellow commanders. After that violent scene in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ finale, where does the show go from here? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Last fall and winter, the president of the United States attempted, with ineffectual strategy but violent consequences, to pressure Republicans to overturn an election that he quite clearly lost. Opinion | Three Paths to Containing Trump 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z Though popular in his day, his controversial doctrines were ultimately discounted as ineffectual, inappropriate, and prejudicial. Alphonse Bertillon and the troubling pursuit of human metrics 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z Advocates of the 2015 nuclear deal tout its “enhanced” verification mechanisms used by the International Atomic Energy Agency, but these are grossly ineffectual. Opinion | The Zarif tape shows why Biden should abandon reviving the Iran nuclear deal 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z It was important to Obama to be seen as cool, and he was unhappy when the press began comparing him to Carter three years into the Obama presidency, echoing the words ineffectual and self-righteous. Opinion | The Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden Show 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z But Muhammad said although RAM leaders talked militantly, the group was largely ineffectual. Did a Black undercover NYPD detective unwittingly aid Malcolm X’s assassination? 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z After his ineffectual stint as an Atlanta Hawk, skepticism persists that Rondo, at 35, will provide the offensive organization and playmaking that the Clippers badly need. What’s Wrong With the Los Angeles Lakers 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z However, lawmakers rebutted that Noem's revisions were too substantial and would render the bill ineffectual. GOP Gov. Kristi Noem reverses following pressure from the right, signs anti-trans executive order 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Republican senators would offer some ineffectual band-aid that meant nothing, Democrats would balk after which the NRA, led by Wayne LaPierre, would sweep in and denounce even those small measures and that would be that. Republicans have moved past the NRA: The GOP is now even more extreme on guns 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z “I found myself constantly Googling information while reading Oreo. For example, do you know what a schmendrick is? It’s an ineffectual foolish or contemptible person in Yiddish,” Gerald Ross said. Philly author’s 1974 novel long ignored, now celebrated 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z Others argued that masks are ineffectual at preventing the spread of the coronavirus and other diseases. Idaho House panel approves prohibition on mask mandates 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z The approach also makes Hoback’s hunt for Q seem bizarrely ineffectual. HBO’s QAnon documentary is a megaphone for extremists — and it’s unbelievably boring 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Anyways, I found Davis ineffectual and weak and found no reason to support him or oppose his recall. Column: Recalling California's wild and crazy and crowded 2003 gubernatorial recall 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z That’s because the anxious parent gains a sense of control from taking action rather than remaining helpless on the sidelines, but the child is still left feeling ineffectual and stressed. Emptying the Dishwasher Can Enrich Kids’ Mental Health 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z And sure, it makes raw political sense to appeal to those fantasies in campaign ads and even to make theatrical but ineffectual gestures towards bipartisanship in public. The myth of bipartisanship: Will a fully radicalized GOP finally blow up D.C.'s silliest fantasy? 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z After 10 games he removed ineffectual five-man combinations, and some contributors from the regular rotation, after consulting lineup data. Clippers feel freedom under coach Lue: 'I am not a guy who thinks I know everything' 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z It is a small miracle that the assault by Trump's forces and the ineffectual response by law enforcement did not result in the murders of members of Congress or their support staff. Dr. John Gartner on Trump and terrorism: "If he can't be president, he will make his force felt" 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z In Jackson’s case, Lue pulled the veteran point guard after only 3 minutes and 21 seconds of ineffectual play in the first half. Tyronn Lue wins Clippers debut: 5 takeaways from the game 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z But the police and justice systems remain ineffectual and riddled with graft. As Mexico’s security deteriorates, the power of the military grows 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Our temperatures are taken twice daily, but that is an ineffectual measure against asymptomatic spread. Perspective | Covid-19 is spreading wildly in prisons like mine. We should get the vaccine early. 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z Editorials called the mayor ineffectual and suggested that the city was suffering a morale crisis. David Dinkins, New York’s First Black Mayor, Dies at 93 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Biden plans to announce their selections even as Mr. Trump continues his ineffectual push to overturn the election. Biden Chooses Antony Blinken, Defender of Global Alliances, as Secretary of State 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z As she saw it, Mr. Pope either agreed with Zinni or was an ineffectual adviser, incapable of convincing his boss that supporting the Iraqi opposition was worthwhile. Laurence Pope, veteran diplomat and top envoy to Libya after Benghazi attack, dies at 75 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z There is nothing more maddening and ineffectual than a leader who flouts his or her own rules while holding others to them. Perspective | Notre Dame’s president lacked self-control. Its student body is merely following his example. 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z In one sequence, Wiseman shows us how intersectional, and intractable, a community’s problems can be, and how ineffectual even good intentions, let alone mixed or bad ones, can be at resolving them. Review: Frederick Wiseman returns to his Boston hometown in the magnificent 'City Hall' 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z The Seahawks’ ineffectual pass rush is the most glaring weakness of a defense that has yet to show it is anywhere close to championship caliber. With gut-wrenching loss to Cardinals, the Seahawks have reached their first moment of truth in 2020 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Many of their techniques came from training led by the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which, on home soil, has proved strikingly ineffectual. What this West African village’s Ebola fight can teach the U.S. about COVID-19 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z That trend has been exacerbated this year by what is widely perceived to be a disorderly and ineffectual governmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and now by a chaotic electoral process. Watching U.S. presidential vote, much of the world sees a less-strong America 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z “Mr. Vice President, I’m speaking,” Harris said repeatedly, stopping him in his tracks when Page’s ineffectual thank yous to Pence could not do the job. Kamala Harris' debate was for every woman who's been talked over by a man 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The nonsense, the lies, the propaganda and the ineffectual defiance will continue, perhaps turned up to 11. Trump's Chernobyl moment: Phony patriotism can't defeat this virus 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z “I don’t think anyone wants to be ineffectual as a chief executive.” Liberals Are Furious. Their Standard-Bearer Wants to Hold Back. 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Going to court was expensive and timely, and ultimately ineffectual. Can a mining corporation ever truly be a good neighbor? 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z I was connecting, but after the first two it felt ineffectual.” ‘Maybe it did just want to eat me’: the Australian surfer who survived a great white shark bite 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Eyeing his political future, Mr. Pence has made a few tentative attempts at self-promotion — but perhaps so tentative as to render them ineffectual. From Trump’s Shadow, Mike Pence Can See 2024 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Iraq’s parliament confirmed Mr. Kadhimi, a former intelligence official, as prime minister in May after mass demonstrations forced the resignation of his ineffectual predecessor. Opinion | There’s a chance for positive change in the Middle East. Trump shouldn’t stand in the way. 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z The coup is a significant setback to French diplomacy in the region, though some officials may welcome the departure of Keïta, who was seen as ineffectual. Mali soldiers promise 'civilian political transition' leading to general election 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z In three ravaged neighborhoods — one middle class, one poor, and one upscale — the catastrophe has united everyone in rage against a government seen as corrupt, dysfunctional and ineffectual. Beirut Blast Hit 3 Disparate Neighborhoods. Now They’re United in Rage. 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z And she wrote that his constant complaining about being treated unfairly was “ineffectual and impotent.” These Conservatives Have a Laser Focus: ‘Owning the Libs’ 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z One period of vulnerability began around 1800 B.C.E., with a succession of ineffectual pharaohs who struggled to maintain order. ‘Invasion’ of ancient Egypt may have actually been immigrant uprising 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z “Trump has to worry about his base feeling like he’s ineffectual, even with a Trump Supreme Court.” Amid wave of cultural change, Trump tries to stir a backlash 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z The order is probably ineffectual and legally dubious, and it’s already been challenged in court for violating the First Amendment. Senators ask FCC to redefine Section 230 after Trump’s executive order 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z The authors suggest that axis separation might suppress ineffectual intersister recombination in favour of homologous recombination between chromosomes. How sex chromosomes break up to get together 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z He called the government's plan to quarantine travellers for 14 days "ineffectual" and "unmanageable". Ryanair boss's face mask claim fact-checked 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z This is vexing, for it suggests that — despite all their algorithms — the tech behemoths are ineffectual when it comes to filtering B.S. from the nation’s atmosphere. Opinion | Why people believe in a ‘plandemic’ 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z This is a pretty good example of the Trump White House's reckless, ad hoc, ineffectual crisis management during the month of April. Trump's desperate April: 34 days of fumbling — and it was worse than we thought 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z “He’s concerned about being made to look ineffectual,” said one person familiar with the mayor’s decision-making process. De Blasio Used Last-Minute Text to Tell Cuomo Schools Would Stay Shut 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z He could make a case that Trump’s efforts to gain access for medical experts to China lacked vigor or were ineffectual; he cannot say there was no effort. Analysis | Did Trump offer experts to China to help with the coronavirus? 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Instead, Trump delivered an address to the nation on March 11 that was so error-ridden and ineffectual that global markets tanked the next day. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z A similar move by the Bank of England on Wednesday was equally ineffectual. Dow Ends 11-Year Bull Market as Coronavirus Defies Economic Remedies 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z “It shows how ineffectual the enforcement situation is,” said Toby Edelman, a senior policy attorney at the Center for Medicare Advocacy. Before Coronavirus Outbreak, Many Nursing Homes Had Infection-Control Lapses 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z In the case of the caucuses and primaries, those building blocks of presidential elections, our institutions seem as frail and ineffectual as the impeachment process itself. How democracy ends: not with a bang but with a whimper 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z And Bloomberg’s gargantuan spending for March 3’s Super Tuesday primaries guarantees him a share of the middle-ground vote, despite his ineffectual response to Warren’s pummeling. Opinion | Why Trump is gloating about Nevada 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z But so far, his promise of “hugs not bullets” has proved ineffectual: the massacre of the Mormons came just days after gunmen from different groups massacred 13 policemen and besieged an entire city. The Mormons standing up to Mexico’s drug cartels: 'We have to overcome our fears’ 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Not only was Medvedev seen as often ineffectual and awkward, manipulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, but, according to Navalny, he also lived the life of a billionaire. Dmitry Medvedev was Putin’s political wingman for years. Now Putin wants some distance. 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z There is a lot of bland, mediocre, ineffectual offense in the NFL. Perspective | NFL's bleak record on diversity hiring ends with owners but starts with coaches 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z What we’re left with is a strange paradox: a commercial that feels both deeply insidious and laughably ineffectual at the same time, a bid for sales that may wind up garnering only clicks. Is the Viral Non-Ad Ad the Future of Advertising? 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Indeed, she predicted the most likely response would be an ineffectual missile strike from Iran on Iraqi bases where American troops were stationed. Seven Days in January: How Trump Pushed U.S. and Iran to the Brink of War 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z The ineffectual attack on Wednesday demonstrated the range of Iran’s ballistic missiles — some traveling more than 600 miles — but also their poor accuracy, with several landing well outside their presumed targets. Its Missiles Did Little Damage, but Iran Has More Potent Weapons 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Spoiler alert: resistance proves to be not only deathly dangerous but also ineffectual. “Jojo Rabbit” Captures the Horror and Absurdity of Our Trumpian Moment 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Ki-Taek may seem kind of extraordinary, but I would argue that he’s really more ordinary, in the sense that he’s somewhat of a next-door neighbor and maybe seems ineffectual. Song Kang Ho finds his 'Parasite' dad symbolic of those suffering in the class divide 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z "It is here. After months of false starts and threats and endless posturing by some of the saddest, most ineffectual people in America, impeachment apparently is imminent," Carlson said. Tucker Carlson: Democrats' impeachment mission ironically proves American democracy is 'just fine' 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z He came to be seen as ineffectual, analysts said. Battered U.K. Labour Party Ponders Next Move, as Corbyn Plans Exit 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The lawsuit alleges the defendants were “indifferent and ineffectual” in their attempts to monitor Rodriguez’s condition. Federal lawsuit alleges woman in crisis was arrested, neglected and died at SCORE jail after 4 ‘torturous’ days 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is pressing Trump to re-focus on the issue following an ineffectual US response to the oilfield and tanker attacks. If Tehran is pushed too far, it may hit out in ways that are disastrous 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z The cast, of course, has its share of male singers for clergy and court roles, each a duplicitous or otherwise ineffectual character. Review: First a Netflix series, now an opera, 'Juana.' Why the story of a 17th century nun sings 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Newkirk concludes her book by declaring that the barrier to equality in schools and the workplace ultimately isn’t the fault of ineffectual players in the diversity-industrial complex but rather society itself. Review | Despite spending billions, companies can’t buy diversity 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z This sense of being made a caricature is an issue, he has said, that also aggrieved his father – in Prince Charles’s case as a hapless and ineffectual busybody. Can Prince Harry escape his sea of troubles? 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Gunasekara also dismissed the Paris Agreement as an ineffectual effort to curb emissions. Trump Administration to Begin Official Withdrawal From Paris Climate Accord 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z By banning the symbol, it drew more attention to the league’s ineffectual response to far-right elements in supporters’ groups. MLS playoff predictions: Zlatan Ibrahimovic stands between LAFC and glory 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z They were quick to defend him when President Trump in July belittled Cummings as an ineffectual leader who presided over a rat-infested district. In Elijah Cummings’s Baltimore, mourning a leader who was ‘the city’s voice’ 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z “Until Republicans decide to join the 21st century, Californians are going to choose the ineffectual over the immigrant haters every time.” Column: Republicans blame Democratic leadership for California's problems. They have a point, but ... 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z “That is largely because the gun lobby has been concerned about an effective and aggressive ATF, and their influence over legislators has kept the ATF ineffectual, at least budgetwise.” EXCLUSIVE: ATF beleaguered by crisis in age of mass shootings 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z And Trump has taken over the Republican Party, accruing personal rather than party loyalty and casting the GOP establishment to an ineffectual sideline. GOP unlikely to reprise role it played in Nixon’s 1974 exit 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z However this instinct to consensus that made him so ineffectual was also Chirac's political touchstone. Chirac: Political chameleon who charmed France 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z But it is also being tried for conditions “where it is ineffectual and may actually increase the risks to patients,” the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology warned in March 2017. Niche drugs become victims of their own success as off-label use leads to shortages 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z These people would be piled into corrugated-metal hangars, which were partitioned into tiny rooms with ineffectual giant fans. Behrouz Boochani Is One of Australia’s Most Celebrated Writers, But He Can’t Step Onshore 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z But the growing anger is directed not just at the attackers but also what is seen as ineffectual policing. 'We are a target': wave of xenophobic attacks sweeps Johannesburg 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The handful of prospective missions he signed onto were ineffectual, as he predicted they would be. Review | In Israel’s founder, many contradictions but a single-minded determination 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z I will not unlearn the lessons he taught me, nor the muscle memory of how ineffectual my body weight was at pushing off his. Letter of Recommendation: Deadlifting 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z In “The Godfather,” Fredo Corleone is the middle, forgotten son; his associates view him as ineffectual, the worst kind of gangster. Is ‘Fredo’ a Movie Reference or an Ethnic Slight? Depends Who You’re Yelling At 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z The United States, eager to end a prolonged conflict, signed the Paris Peace Accords, an ineffectual document gesture that did not result in peace. Opinion | We can’t leave Afghanistan without protecting our closest allies first 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z But as he saw it, hippies were weak and ineffectual, and where they aimed to expand their consciousness, he wanted his followers “dead in the head.” Five myths about Charles Manson - The Washington Post 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z A Kamala Harris presidency would be ineffectual for the demographic that will probably comprise much of her base: black women. Black women deserve better from Kamala Harris. Don't take our vote for granted | Malaika Jabali 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z When his usual methods prove ineffectual, a political strategist takes a gamble on a new client to prove that sometimes dirty battles have to be fought cleanly. TV Listings: Here are the feature and TV Films airing the week of July 28 - Aug. 3, 2019 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z My client didn’t want to talk about his behavior with other people because she didn’t want to seem weak or ineffectual. 4 strategies for managing uppity interrupters | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z At first glance, Trump’s half-empty administration might appear understaffed and ineffectual, and in terms of the public interest, that’s probably true. The government is working — for corporations 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z Labor, after years of vacillating and ineffectual opposition to Howard’s policies, has long since capitulated on all of the important points. The USA is imprisoning people it finds undesirable. Australia has already lived this nightmare | Jason Wilson 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Somehow they think by being weak and ineffectual it is some clever political strategy. Psychiatrist John Gartner: "Two years ago I compared Trump to Hitler. People didn't believe me" 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z This brazen nose-thumbing will continue, as long as Democrats keep demonstrating, with every ineffectual move, that they are unwilling to do anything substantive to hold Barr or Trump accountable. Trump loves drama: Now Democrats need to use that addiction against him 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z He also without doubt noticed how George W. Bush, who was considered ineffectual and laughable, suddenly took on authority when a scared nation needed to rally behind a leader. Yale psychiatrist Brandy X. Lee on Trump: "His state has been steadily deteriorating for some time" 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Instead, she let him have it, criticizing his inconsistent stance on Vietnam, lambasting his ineffectual campaign workers, and complaining about the unfair advantage Kennedy enjoyed simply by dint of his famous name. The Campaign Volunteer Whose Brilliance Haunted Robert F. Kennedy 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z President Trump personally announced the rule during a speech before faith leaders who say the protections are necessary because of ineffectual enforcement of existing statutes protecting such decisions. A violation of ‘privacy, liberty, dignity’: Civil rights groups sue HHS over religious exemption rule 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z The campaign seems to have been largely ineffectual - Scott-Railton noted that “most of their stories got almost no organic buzz” - but a couple did break through. Report: Iran-linked disinformation effort had personal touch 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z With such conflicting forces, it’s no wonder Tommen was an ineffectual king. The history behind Tyrion’s ‘kings and queens’ dig at Varys 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Religious conservatives counter that such protections are necessary because of increasing mandates to provide care and ineffectual enforcement of existing statutes protecting workers. Trump touts new faith-based protections for health-care workers at National Day of Prayer ceremony 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z I understand why Biden turned into a prattling, ineffectual lump of nothingness. Opinion | Joe Biden doesn’t owe me an apology. Clarence Thomas does. 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z That’s the line that the South Korean government and the semi-permanent community of ineffectual “Korea watchers” who populate the offices along Massachusetts Avenue in Northwest Washington are taking in response to North Korea’s latest provocation. North Korea may have done world a favor with weapon test 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z According to Prof Davidson, a major depressive disorder rendered both Calvin Coolidge and Franklin Pierce ineffectual as leaders after their sons died. The mental rigours of being US president 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Some express anger at what they see as ineffectual U.S. bluster and are calling colleagues still inside, telling them to stay put. Venezuela’s military, despite U.S. expectations, has not turned on Maduro 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z The throne itself is hideous and fairly ineffectual. Who will win ‘Game of Thrones’? Sansa already has 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z We’ve all seen the photographs of migrant children huddled under those ineffectual mylar “blankets” inside chain-link cages after they had been separated from their parents. Donald Trump’s America treats dogs better than migrant children 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Emery’s latest attempt to remedy the sequence was as ineffectual as his team. Everton’s Phil Jagielka strikes early to secure victory against Arsenal 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z I found it quite interesting: you’ve got the leisured classes who have become ineffectual and the downtrodden working classes. On my radar: Paul Simonon’s cultural highlights 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Those mounds, now reduced in size, are still evident on the hillside above the 11th green, but they are well short of the putting surface and are ineffectual. Masters 2019: We Redesigned Augusta National* - Golf Digest 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Each year brings another round of “Least Productive Congress” headlines, eulogizing our ineffectual Senate. We can have Medicare-for-All—and bypass Mitch McConnell and the GOP-controlled Senate to get it now 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Either way, it would be wrong to try to blackmail him into not exercising the right to vote — and ineffectual, because such an agreement would be unenforceable. I Detest the N.R.A. What Should I Do With My Gun? 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z “They like him; they think he’s ineffectual,” he said. Who will succeed Donald Trump? Conservatives don’t have a clear answer yet 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z In “Breaking Bad,” Walter White went from ineffectual nonentity to super-competent tough guy and moral monster, and millions of us couldn’t look away. Meet Paul Le Roux, the cyber criminal exposed in new books by Evan Ratliff and Elaine Shannon 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z The absence of a political agreement made the May 2018 presidential election perfectly legal but politically ineffectual, as major opposition parties refused to participate. Recognising Juan Guaidó risks a bloody civil war in Venezuela | Temir Porras Ponceleon 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Like China, Thailand seems to be going through the same cycle: denial of a chronic problem, ineffectual solutions and then a sudden realization that the chemical miasma isn’t going to magically disappear without coordinated policies. Bangkok Is Choking on Air Pollution. The Response? Water Cannons. 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z That does not mean building an ineffectual wall on the United States’ southern border, a costly and mostly symbolic measure that lacks broad political support. Focus on real, bipartisan immigration reform 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z At the turn of the 20th century, the Senate proved ineffectual in regulating railroads and banking. Mitch McConnell Got Everything He Wanted. But at What Cost? 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z “He’s completely ineffectual now,” said Kitty Green, a Sioux City Democrat, referring to King’s removal from committees. Rep. Steve King is spurned in Washington. In Iowa, sentiment is mixed. 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Kane’s play portrays a suicidal soul tormented by internal voices and buffeted by ineffectual medical interventions. Psychotic Operas at the Prototype Festival 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Grisham, who has described Trump’s idea for a wall as outdated and ineffectual, previously indicated she would reconsider the state’s deployment of National Guard troops to the border by Republican predecessor Susana Martinez. Trump set to visit southern border in Texas, as ongoing federal shutdown continues 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z In a statement Tuesday evening, Lujan Grisham described Trump’s idea for a wall as outdated and ineffectual and called on the president to end the federal government shutdown. New Mexico governor plans border visit, criticizes Trump 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z They made him look as clueless and ineffectual as Mark Sanchez against the Giants last month at DeadEx Field. SNYDER: Ravens embraced all-or-nothing approach 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Trump’s capitalization habits are erratic, but he presumably meant the former senator Jeff Flake, a Republican of Arizona, who openly condemned Trump but did so on his way to retirement, rendering his eloquence somewhat ineffectual. Romney vs. Trump: If Utah’s New Senator Is Serious, He Should Be Running for President 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z It’s true that the judge’s decision looks somewhat glib and ineffectual under the circumstances. Yes, a deer poacher should watch Bambi. Films can transform us all | Ryan Gilbey 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z A gloom falls over the franchise — again — and it demands two things: an open door and a strong foot to kick out a few ineffectual leaders. Perspective | It’s time for Bruce Allen, architect of this Redskins disaster, to be shown door 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z She doesn’t have much to do in Crimes at all, besides shouting ineffectual protests as Credence makes poor decisions. Unanswered questions from Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z These were relatively ineffectual and did not lay waste to any camp, let alone one used by Bin Laden. What Trump gets wrong about the Osama bin Laden killing 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z His and successive governments were so corrupt, bungling and repressive as to be totally ineffectual, just like their armed forces, which also had no will to fight unless alongside Americans. Review | The many flaws and failures of the United States in the Vietnam War 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z But it seems more telling that she spends a lot of time on-screen with nothing to contribute to the story except pained looks and the occasional ineffectual protest. Even for Harry Potter fans, Crimes of Grindelwald is convoluted 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Other critics say I-1639 violates their Second Amendment rights and will be ineffectual in preventing mass shootings. Gun owners group vows to sue after Washington state passes tough new regulations 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z "It’s called demagoguery—fanning flames of hatred & false fear, & offering unlawful, ineffectual solutions like an executive order ending birthright citizenship. Unconstitutional & unworthy of a president," Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., echoed on Twitter. What does the 14th Amendment actually say? A look at the citizenship clause Trump plans to challenge 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z “Samuel Johnson’s Eternal Return” then is a chronicle of his adventures in other peoples’ bodies and his hapless and largely ineffectual attempts to return home to see his son. 'Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return' is an unexpected trip - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z He even devoted his first speech as national security adviser to trashing the International Criminal Court, an obscure and ineffectual boogeyman that has long obsessed him. Opinion | On the INF Treaty, Trump finally gets something right 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z His detention of the prime minister of Lebanon was ultimately ineffectual. The Prince and the President: Khashoggi Case Raises Saudi-Turkey Tensions 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z “We knew he wasn’t good,” Fernandes said, recalling his friend’s ineffectual, one-handed backhand. Umpire in Serena Williams Dispute Was a Stickler From the Start 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z But if so it’s the most ineffectual coup imaginable, with no actual plan for changing the direction of his pontificate. Opinion | The Pope and the Accusers 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z He is merely a noxious, venal, and ineffectual blowhard, who has assembled a team of associates who are themselves, with few exceptions, noxious, venal, or ineffectual. After Trump: The Donald in the rearview mirror 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z The administration’s ineffectual response to the hurricane disaster in Puerto Rico was responsible for greater loss of life. Opinion | Congress should initiate impeachment proceedings 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z The proposed rule will be just as ineffectual as CPP in combatting climate change, but its minimalist approach offers many advantages. The ACE up the EPA’s sleeve 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z “I was with a group of survivors, and they were all upset with the statements as being ineffectual,” he said. In Ireland, Pope Francis acknowledges ‘outrage’ over abuse, but his remarks strike some as empty 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z They also argue that video has been ineffectual: many times, the public has watched the police abuse and kill black men without facing conviction. Can the Manufacturer of Tasers Provide the Answer to Police Abuse? 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Yet state licensing officials, also responsible for the Texas foster care system, have been found to be dangerously ineffectual. Federal agency sent immigrant kids to dangerous youth facility, despite serious warning signs 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Would the running game, so ineffectual last year, and so emphasized by Carroll this year, show signs of promise? Seahawks open preseason as a mystery that will take some time to solve 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z So far, attempts to muster support for the international regulation of autonomous weapons have been ineffectual. Elon Musk, DeepMind founders, and others sign pledge to not develop lethal AI weapon systems 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The town’s chief authority figure, the mayor, boldly announces a series of indecisive and ineffectual remedies and later, as order deteriorates, lapses into authoritarianism. Now on Broadway: SpongeBob ChauvinistPants 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z The only thing the two movements have in common is that both are dangerous to the very tiny group of ineffectual politicians who've been running both parties for decades now. Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez too “far left” for America? Absolutely not 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z It was as if Nigeria had expected the bickering, disinterested and ineffectual version of Argentina to show up, the group that had rebelled against their coach and seemingly quit against Croatia. Argentina Finds World Cup Salvation in Thriller Over Nigeria 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z “If California passes a weak, watered-down, ineffectual net neutrality bill, that sets a terrible standard not just for other states but for the federal government.” Net neutrality backers fume as California bill watered down 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Hansen says in a scathing upcoming book that the former president “failed miserably” on climate change and oversaw policies that were “late, ineffectual and partisan”. Ex-Nasa scientist: 30 years on, world is failing 'miserably’ to address climate change 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Add to that Trump’s continual demeaning of his hand-picked team-mate, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and you have one of the most dysfunctional and ineffectual political teams in history. Sport molded my character - and Trump has learned none of its lessons 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Paul Ryan is an inept and ineffectual speaker of the House. Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z But the unions were ineffectual because they struggled to rile up their membership. Can Weak Unions Get Teachers More Money? 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z There was no brave new world and it is those of us whose futures were effectively ignored by its instigators and the ineffectual reformers who came after them who have most to complain about. A French revolution that pushed immigrants to the margins | Nabila Ramdani 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z In his mind, Mr. Sessions would soon be recused from the Russia investigation, rendering him ineffectual, and Mr. Rosenstein had shown himself to be untrustworthy because of his role in firing Mr. Comey. James Comey Opens Up About Ego, Distrust and More 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z The bombing of Syrian government targets by the United States, Britain, and France is a disgraceful and ineffectual act masquerading as a noble gesture. The Syria bombing is a disgraceful act disguised as a noble gesture | Moustafa Bayoumi 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z In the end, the WTO would be a modern-day League of Nations: weak, ineffectual, and beside the point. Perspective | Trump doesn’t have to start a trade war to upend the global system 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Reformers urge policymakers to consider a series of ideas intended to save lives, while their opponents insist those ideas would be ineffectual and unconstitutional. Former Supreme Court justice calls for Second Amendment's repeal 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z I’m reluctant to refer to Tillerson, Cohn, and McMaster as the administration’s “grown-ups,” since they were often wrong, ineffectual, and marginalized. Trump brings a change for the worse to the White House 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z External reviews generally rated him somewhere between ineffectual and the worst secretary of state on record. What Pompeo means for US foreign policy 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Cook says the bathroom bill was “ineffectual” and “dangerous” to the Texas economy. Report: Texas bathroom bill diverted from school, tax issues 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z To the Raffs, it felt as if history was repeating itself, as if the pointless, ineffectual Microsoft case was happening all over again. The Case Against Google 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z It's amazing the powers that some GOPers assign to the very political party they claim is so ineffectual. Gov. Eric Greitens of Missouri Indicted on Invasion of Privacy Charge 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Unless New Delhi swiftly restores democracy, it risks looking ineffectual in the face of Chinese inroads into India’s traditional zone of influence. China Encroaches on India’s Sphere of Influence 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z It’s crushing, how many decisions there are to make, how ineffectual or catastrophic they could be, how we can’t know which are which. Why Aren’t Businesses Doing More to Save American Manufacturing? 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z The coalition headed by the prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, may be ineffectual and unpopular, but it still holds a solid majority in parliament. In Sri Lanka, local elections have rattled the government 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Without a clear strategy, efforts to push procreation will remain piecemeal and ineffectual. China is in a muddle over population policy 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z “If the legal system is bypassed because it is seen as ineffectual, what will take its place?” Actors are lining up to condemn Woody Allen. Why now? 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z But on the night of the president’s first State of the Union address, the Capitol turned into an echo-chamber of ineffectual fashion Babel. Perspective | At the State of the Union, fashion puts women on mute. 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z For perhaps the first time in modern conservative politics, National Review and many of its peers looked completely ineffectual. Why conservative magazines are more important than ever 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z In a world of misinformation and ideological echo chambers, satire is ineffectual at best and irresponsible at worst. What counts as satire in the Trump era? Not pointless Photoshop parodies | Arwa Mahdawi 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z But as of the time of the publication of this book, they remain ineffectual. An excerpt from Trumpocracy 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z “If the legal system is bypassed because it is seen as ineffectual, what will take its place? Who will be the new power brokers?” Margaret Atwood faces feminist backlash on social media over #MeToo 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Football star Fridge is now an ineffectual Kevin Hart, whose main abilities are carrying a large backpack and commenting on how short he is. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle mines the wrong kind of gaming nostalgia 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z She added the moratorium may be ineffectual because it’s essentially toothless. Failing our forests: we’ve lost enough trees to cover Spain in 2 years 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Other forms of gene modification add copies of genes, but are ineffectual if a dominant mutation remains. Gene Editing Shows Promise for Alleviating Hearing Loss 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z BHP said it differed from the Chamber of Commerce’s characterization of the Paris climate agreement as ineffectual and the business group’s opposition to taxing carbon emissions. Mining Giant BHP Breaks With Coal Lobby Over Paris Agreement 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z One symbol of change at the top is powerful, but it’s also often ineffectual. Perspective | The NFL is in need of vision. Its owners can’t see through the white-out. 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z My question is: Why are the Democrats at the national level so ineffectual in rallying public pressure and outcry against this? Opinion | The Tax Bill That Inequality Created 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z And moral panics are worse than ineffectual; they result in greater evils than the original sin. Perspective | Let’s not congratulate an IOC that awarded Russia an Olympics in the first place 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Often, it finds its source in his hapless characters’ everyday awkwardness, with which Atalla — who considers himself a “low-level, ineffectual troublemaker” — sympathizes. A London Penthouse, in Shades of Gray 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z On Tuesday in Tourcoing, Mr. Macron derided the program as ineffectual. Macron Visits ‘Left-Behind France’ to Show He’s President for Everyone 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z “Crime fell, but it fell marginally. People were panicked. His response to crime was ineffectual.” David Dinkins Doesn’t Think He Failed. He Might Be Right. 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z “There was ideological chaos, the party apparatus at every level seemed ineffectual, the military was no longer under the leadership of the party.” As Party Gathers, Xi Jinping Displays a Firm Grip on Power 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z “This is the state of the G.O.P. in a nutshell. It is a party locked in mortal combat between an establishment that is ineffectual and unimaginative and a populist wing that is ineffectual and inflamed.” Right and Left React to Bannon’s Harsh Words for McConnell 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z As with many other emotional-release therapies of its time, primal therapy is today widely rejected by mental health professionals as unscientific and ineffectual. Arthur Janov, psychologist behind 'primal scream' therapy, dies aged 93 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z The federal government gets a bad rap: it is constantly described as bloated and clunky, its workers as inefficient and ineffectual. Federal Workers Who Made a Difference 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z The invitation for anyone to catch as many of the fugitive fish as possible was, at best, ineffectual, he said. Protest seeks shutdown of Atlantic salmon farms in Washington state 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z In the meantime, local governments are left with administrative moves by the executive branch that have widely been perceived as cosmetic and ineffectual. A Sheriff’s Bind: Cross the White House, or the Courts 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Over those years, divided Sunni politicians were ineffectual, and many Sunni professionals and businessmen left the country. Shattered by war, Sunni Arabs despair over future in Iraq 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z Take the notion that fiscal stimulus is ineffectual. Governments need to rethink their attitudes to debt 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z He was as ineffectual as the team were imbalanced. Carlos Tevez's big-money move to China has proved an expensive mistake 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z The invitation for anyone to catch as many of the fugitive fish as possible was, at best, ineffectual, he said. Protest seeks shutdown of Atlantic salmon farms in Washington state 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z But he’s also been guilty of putting Tyrion into a passive, ineffectual mode for long stretches. Why do Game of Thrones’ showrunners hate Tyrion so much? 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z The action may be ineffectual, but it’s better than inaction. To Punish Putin, Economic Sanctions Are Unlikely to Do the Trick 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Trump’s meteoric success despite mounting controversy only bolstered their view that experienced political professionals were overpaid and ineffectual, pushing them to find their own solutions to the campaign’s problems. ‘A million miles per hour’: Inside Trump’s campaign when Trump Jr. met with Russian lawyer 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Sanctions are likely to be revisited, through a reconvening of the UN Security Council, but the political process is slow and enforcement is at best a partial and therefore ineffectual approach. North Korea new missile test: A game-changer? - BBC News 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Investigations into complaints of torture are often corrupt and ineffectual, fueling a culture of impunity as perpetrators walk free. Hundreds have gone missing in eastern Ukraine’s dirty war 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z At the moment, he’s getting what reality competition shows call the “loser edit,” where he only appears in scenes where he’s being problematic, ineffectual, or annoying. Why do Game of Thrones’ showrunners hate Tyrion so much? 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Although Trump has criticized President Barack Obama’s “strategic patience” policy as weak and ineffectual, he has yet to distinguish his North Korea policy from his predecessor’s. Opinion | We participated in talks with North Korean representatives. This is what we learned. 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z It’s too ineffectual to effect anything as big and complicated as an election. Progressives made Clinton. Yes, Democrats need a civil war: Believe it or not, it’s the only real path back to power 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z There’s nothing like the prospect of an authoritarian strongman to make intellectuals, hippies, and, above all, hippie intellectuals appear hopelessly ineffectual. 'A reckoning for our species': the philosopher prophet of the Anthropocene 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z In practice, though, it can be an ineffectual organization that has little power to change entrenched practices among various agencies — particularly in military affairs. US revives space-policy council after 24-year absence 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z This is why Edward Snowden famously leaked information about the NSA collection programs to the media; apart from a broken, ineffectual Presidential Directive, Snowden didn’t have viable options. Donald Trump promised to go after leakers. Now he's doing just that | Arjun Sethi 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z In its absence, the Iraqi state had collapsed, and in its place was a small, ineffectual council of American-appointed leaders. James Mattis, a Warrior in Washington 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z The 2008 financial crisis, and the left’s ineffectual, rather old-fashioned response to it – such as the short-lived street protests of the Occupy movement – further convinced Srnicek that an updated radical politics was needed. Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z And when schools don’t act — or when their efforts to root out abuse are ineffectual — justice is not served. AP reveals hidden horror of sex assaults by K-12 students 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z For the buffoonish and endlessly ineffectual Van Peteghems, affectation knows no bounds. Bruno Dumont goes unexpectedly light with wacko French comedy 'Slack Bay' 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z They argued that the two inmates’ particular medical conditions made it likely that the sedative would be ineffectual, making the executions unconstitutionally painful. Arkansas Executes 2 Inmates, a First for Any State on One Day Since 2000 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Mattis was furious; he thought that the order made his men look simultaneously brutal and ineffectual. James Mattis, a Warrior in Washington 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z His effort to broker a deal on healthcare reform turned out to be as ineffectual as it was ostentatious. 100 days: how Donald Trump compares with last five presidents 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z "A lot of people are doing this play this year because it has so much to say about autocracy, and the horrified and ineffectual reaction of the educated elite." Game of Thrones actress to appear in Julius Caesar at Bridge Theatre - BBC News 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Calling “Idiocracy” a documentary is one of those jokes about Donald Trump that was made constantly in the latter months of 2016 and now reeks of a certain strain of ineffectual liberal smugness. Mike Judge, the Bard of Suck 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Then the Senate, if it likes, can go back to its ineffectual arguing about who is to blame for what. Gorsuch Wins, the Filibuster Loses 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The session signals that the new administration intends to maintain leadership of a sprawling diplomatic effort that Obama began in 2014 against the Islamic State, despite Trump’s characterizing his predecessor’s strategy as weak and ineffectual. Tillerson calls for allies to help stabilize Iraq and Syria after ISIS is expelled 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Ambassador Nikki Haley went further, telling an interviewer Friday that the Trump administration is making a sharp pivot away from what she said was an ineffectual Obama strategy regarding China and North Korea. Tillerson says ‘all options are on the table’ when it comes to North Korea 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z But over time, he said, he was able to remove the ineffectual teachers and, in the process, gain the trust of the more talented and energetic ones. Why 2 South Bronx Schools Share a Building, but Not a Future 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z The state’s current one-year lobbying moratorium is seen as ineffectual. Lobbying moratorium bill advances in New Mexico Legislature 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z The ineffectual efforts to correct this costly mistake would be laughable if people were not suffering and dying for lack of basic health services. Opinion | Where is the empathy on health care, legislators? 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Blair was well aware he would be criticized and didn’t spare even his own party in his critique, which he declared to be ineffectual and a “facilitator of Brexit.” Tony Blair's new mission is to change minds on Brexit 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z I didn’t like him; he seemed to me too moony and ineffectual. Can Anne of Green Gables overcome 30 years of nostalgia? | Emma Brockes 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The EPA has enforcement power but does nothing more than write to ineffectual local authorities. Opinion | EPA employees are blind to their own mistakes 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z |
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