| 单词 | inefficacy |
| 例句 | As Luther’s claims about the inefficacy of indulgences spread, with help from the new Gutenberg printing press, so did the idea of the solas, which formed the basis of the Reformation. The Hidden Life of a Forgotten Sixteenth-Century Female Poet 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z He also became convinced of the inefficacy of Congressional oversight of the agency. Books of The Times: ‘The Snowden Files,’ by Luke Harding 2014-02-04T21:45:45Z One of the most common often involves the hilarity of Southern inefficacy and sloth. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z So to keep this myth going simply perpetuates the inefficacy of black fathers and gives women another reason to have yet another generation of fatherless families. Kyle Pruett on Fatherhood 2012-07-23T11:00:00Z But it’s failure that absorbs Stuart, the body’s stubborn, fumbling thickness, its sticky desires and cruel inefficacies. Dance: Meg Stuart Choreographs ?Blessed? at New York Live Arts 2012-01-06T20:40:21Z He seemed to think he could figure this out, make the kind of adjustment he has made so many times before in a career defined by his ability to stave off long stretches of inefficacy. Padres pound Max Scherzer and push Mets to the brink of elimination 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Phil Jackson took over the team the next year, ushering in a new period of inefficacy for the team. The Knicks Are Ready for a Sequel. The Good Kind. 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z To Mr. Will, failure to lower the rate is proof of the inefficacy of Roosevelt’s costly job-creation programs. Opinion | Say yes to a new New Deal 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Disillusioned with the inefficacy of the Federal Police, López Obrador as president bet his security strategy on a new force that would draw on the resources of the military, but be civilian in nature. One year later, watchdogs criticize Mexico’s National Guard 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z In its report, Amnesty said its research “demonstrates NSO Group’s continued failure to conduct adequate human rights due diligence and the inefficacy of its own human rights policy.” Spyware technology found on phone of Moroccan journalist, report says 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Far-right populists point to the disagreements within the bloc as evidence of its inefficacy and weakness in a moment of peril. Analysis | Coronavirus reopens Europe’s angry divide 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z The impressive inefficacy of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report and then the impeachment proceedings in changing people’s minds should convince people of how powerful these mechanisms are. Pelosi “has the right” to submit Trump to an “involuntary evaluation": Yale psychiatrist Bandy Lee 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z He justified the approach by pointing to the inefficacy of other methods and asserting that there was “an intimate connection between the story of the patient’s sufferings and the symptoms of his illness.” The Troubled History of Psychiatry 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Of course, all this pales in comparison to the all-time Open record for inefficacy, set by J.D. U.S. Open 2018: Scott Gregory shoots 92; still 65 shots short of all-time high score - Golf Digest 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z All of the other problems derive from the fact that healthcare is an inelastic market compounded by the both the inefficacy and costs of these concentrations in the industry. How Expanding Medicaid Can Lower Insurance Premiums for All 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z And his base — which has, until now, long believed in government incompetence and inefficacy above almost any other political principle — willingly suspends disbelief. Telling it like it is? Americans now want politicians who tell it like it isn’t 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z The penal system is creating a need for itself with a proven record of inefficacy. Welcome to the new Jim Crow: Michelle Alexander is right — our justice system doubles as a racial caste system 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z This extraordinary stylistic range stems from Graham’s wish to make a lavish formal show of her epistemological turbulence, her poems’ provisional victories over their own inefficacy. Jorie Graham’s Nature Poetry 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z When people pause to consider how the projections about global warming could impact their children or grandchildren, they often experience an uncomfortable mix of anxiety and inefficacy. 5 Empathetic Strategies To Inspire Climate Action Now 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z The senator said today’s doctors have watched the profession undergo tremendous realignments that are shifting doctors’ responsibilities away from patient care, changes they attribute to the government’s inefficacy. Is There a Doctor in the House? Yes, 17. And 3 in the Senate. 2014-03-07T21:00:17Z “Is it possible to escape the terrifying sandstorms of fear and anxiety?” she asked after we discussed the inefficacy of her antidepressant. Well: Living With Cancer: Finding Calm in the Storm 2014-03-06T17:47:59Z The inefficacy of the regulation comes a distant second to political point scoring, he said. Banning naked short-selling won't solve the eurozone crisis 2012-07-06T08:00:03Z The incident sparked a fiery public debate and several protests decrying the inefficacy of the Gurgaon police. India Ink: Angered by Unsafe City, Gurgaon Women Call for a 'Girlcott' 2012-04-04T10:34:03Z I am myself an instance of the inefficacy of prosecution. The Trial of Henry Hetherington 2012-03-06T03:00:21.680Z As a result of these tests, within a few years the inefficacy of sarsaparilla became very clear. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z I could not help smiling at Cecil's humble substitute for the care of Providence, and inwardly moralising upon the equal inefficacy of others which are in more common repute. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z The extreme depravity and disgusting nature of the scene; the inefficacy of acting to encourage or maintain the delusion. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z No human language could possibly set forth, more graphically, the utter inefficacy of the Levitical ceremonial. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z No sooner, however, was its inefficacy perceived, than it sunk in the estimation of its worshippers, as low as it previously had risen. Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion 2011-07-29T02:00:29.353Z Discharges of Prisoners.—Summary of the causes of the present inefficacy of the Police, under nine different heads. A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention 2011-03-23T02:00:17.353Z The opposite of efficacy is not beauty, but inefficacy: there is no reason that the two should be mutually exclusive. Get-well wishes to Argentina's El Flaco whose football moved the world 2011-03-16T12:56:11Z The young man, who seemed aware of the inefficacy of such expedients, waited till the moment when he should be left alone. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z These men are all engaged in organizing the workingmen's vote with extraordinary efficacy in Europe, and with extraordinary inefficacy in the United States. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z The prince, whose humanity would not suffer him to insult misery with reproof, went away convinced of the emptiness of rhetorical sound, and the inefficacy of polished periods and studied sentences. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z In the operation of this Act is strongly evinced the inefficacy of the best laws, when measures are not pursued to insure an accurate and chaste execution. A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention 2011-03-23T02:00:17.353Z Another remonstrance of constant recurrence—a proof of its inefficacy—was that against the alienation of the crown lands, and the sale of offices and the lesser titles of nobility. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies Their inefficacy, indeed, may justly be cited in testimony; for what they extort is in all probability false, what they fail to extort is in all probability true. The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion The proof which in the history of thought is offered again and again, be it noted, is not of the reality of life, but of the unreality and inefficacy of death. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The only answer they generally received was, that it was the custom of the country; and the only result of their efforts was the distressing conviction of the inefficacy of their humane endeavors. Oriental Women Have we not in such an experience an irrefutable proof of the inefficacy of Mr. Britling's God? God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' But this faith of mine in an ideal and lasting union does not lessen at all my scepticism in the moral inefficacy of our present marriage system. The Truth About Woman But, in spite of the complete inefficacy of the old penal system as regards the diminution of crime, they have so far only put into practice few of their ideas. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study The inefficacy of merely sufficient grace, therefore, is owing to the resistance of the will and not to any lack of intrinsic power. Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise Yet there is evidence that he felt the inefficacy of any external bond. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History These instructions were not carried out; at best such a scheme would have been insufficient for the purpose; subsequent experience in the case of the Clergy Reserves proved the inefficacy of such an appropriation. McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 Our author distinctly says, that "it was in the western part of the United States that the inefficacy of the power of Congress was most complained of." The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 You know too well, Sir, the character of the Barbary States, and their policy, to be ignorant of the inefficacy and dangers of such a measure. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I The inefficacy of natural prayer asserted in our thesis, is not, as in the case of merit,443 due to any intrinsic impossibility, but to a positive divine decree to grant supernatural prayer. Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise Their only value is as a lucrative source of gain to those people who, knowing their inefficacy, yet exploit the distress of certain women by selling them. Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand The Anabaptist believed in the inefficacy of baptism without faith manifested by an external act; but is not Calvin, at this very hour, as much to be pitied as the Anabaptist? The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 They themselves will hardly deny the inefficacy of their instructions. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. Numerous were the complaints of the inefficacy of the measure for present relief, numerous the predictions of the ultimate impossibility of carrying it into effect. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I There is something incongruous in the notion that the efficacy or inefficacy of divine grace should depend on the arbitrary pleasure of a created will. Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise The inefficacy of the catechism was proved later, when the precocious girl developed into the graceful, unscrupulous society woman. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 I was almost afraid to give them, but the inefficacy of the other medicines gave me no hopes of a cure from continuing them, which made me venture to comply with her request. An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases The contrast is most ludicrous between the need that undoubtedly exists for some such quieting influence, and the utter inefficacy of it, if applied, under such circumstances. 190October 20, 1875. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California The French passengers smiled derisively at the inefficacy or rather total absence of any system of embarkation of passengers, and the Americans opened their eyes! From Edinburgh to India & Burmah Aphrodica acquainted Quintian with the inefficacy of her endeavours, who, enraged to be foiled in his designs, changed his lust into resentment. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs This bland acceptance of the meaninglessness and the inefficacy of beauty is habitual to most young professionals who wield pen or pencil. Personality in Literature What they said I do not exactly know, but I believe it was to point out to them the utter inefficacy, besides the wickedness and folly, of their incantations. My First Voyage to Southern Seas "You forget, father," said Mildred, conscious of the inefficacy of any other appeal, "that Mr. Thomas has promised to pay the legacies that Sir Wycherly intended to leave." The Two Admirals He added to the illustrations already given of the inefficacy of the proposed amendment to reach the desired end, one of special force and pertinency. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 One repeated a text from St. Paul, supposed to assert the inefficacy of works; another observed, it was presumptuous to dictate to Providence. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel I, with Shakespeare and Homer, perceive the bitter inefficacy of fighting the scientific critics. The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison Whatever opinion others might entertain of their weakness, inefficacy, or other defects, Mr. Hastings found no such things in them. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) It satirizes also the encouragement given to vice by princes, the inefficacy of ministers, and the ignorance of physicians and astrologers. Tales from the Hindu Dramatists To give a pastor the direction of parishioners established within an enormous radius of his parish house, was to condemn his ministry in advance to inefficacy. The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval Experience proves the inefficacy of a bill of rights. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 "To pleasure thee, Sir Christopher, there is nothing which I would not undertake, convinced though I am of its inefficacy." The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance The repeated complaint of the inefficacy of chastisements has in it a tone of sorrow and of wonder which does not belong only to the Prophet. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII These considerations, taken in connection with the probable inefficacy against modern artillery of elaborate fortifications, suggest the possibility of a reduction throughout Europe of the peace-footing armies. New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 Can Congress, after the repeated unequivocal proofs it has experienced of the utter inutility and inefficacy of requisitions, reasonably expect that they would be hereafter effectual or productive? American Eloquence, Volume 1 Studies In American Political History (1896) We see in Christendom the effects of belief in a personal God, and also the inefficacy of mere ethics. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 One clear-visioned Frenchman writes: "The inefficacy of the organization aimed at by the Conference constrains France to live in continual and increasing insecurity, owing to the falling off of her population." The Inside Story of the Peace Conference The major was overcome by the unexpected inefficacy of his violence, and had an illness which lasted more than three weeks. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft The expert is every day more clearly demonstrating its inefficacy while the psychologist and the sociologist are constantly becoming more convinced that it is barbarous. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society His penitence was of course poignant in proportion to its tardiness and inefficacy. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Antonyms: inefficacy, impotency. efficient, a. competent, capable, proficient, effectual, potent, efficacious. effort, n. attempt, endeavor, trial, essay, venture, exertion, strain, struggle. egg, n. ovum, germ, cell; spawn. Putnam's Word Book It was remarked upon 'Change how much he had aged of late, and moralists commented upon the vanity and inefficacy of the wealth which could not smooth the wrinkles from the great trader's haggard visage. The Firm of Girdlestone The two signs by which the "learned physicion" recognized diabolic intervention were: first, the preternatural appearance of the disease from which the patient was suffering; and, secondly, the inefficacy of the remedies applied. Elizabethan Demonology There needed no second look to assure Ludlow of the inefficacy of further pursuit, since the sea was already ruffled by the breeze which had so opportunely come to aid the smuggler. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas With this learned man I had many conferences, in which I endeavoured to evince what he has at last confessed in the narrative of his life, the uncertainty and inefficacy of his method. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Medicine and therapeutics are powerless, and their inefficacy has long been recognized by specialists. Facing the Flag This attempt may, perhaps, be justly suspected of resemblance to the practice of physicians, who, when they cannot mitigate pain, destroy sensibility, and endeavour to conceal, by opiates, the inefficacy of their other medicines. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II S. A sermon on the inefficacy of the prayer of faith without submission to God's better wisdom. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Higher religions discern the inefficacy of the mere Act. American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent In the man's emphasis the girl realized at last the inefficacy of her efforts to combat his will. Within the Law The breast of Symmachus was animated by the warmest zeal for the cause of expiring Paganism; and his religious antagonists lamented the abuse of his genius, and the inefficacy of his moral virtues. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 At first, it occurred to me to summon my servant, and make her spend the night in my chamber; but the inefficacy of this expedient to enhance my safety was easily seen. Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale If both, theoretically, owned the inefficacy of such amends, the woman's instinctive subjectiveness made her find relief in this crude form of penance. The Touchstone The dreary process of dunning a man across half the globe, the hopelessness of appeals that took two months to come to hand, and the inefficacy of threats that were wafted over miles of ocean! Lord Kilgobbin Indeed, such instances of the total inefficacy of state laws are not wanting. American Institutions and Their Influence M. Pelletier had the idea of rendering these bags cheaper by employing plain squares instead of curved ones, but the advantage thus obtained was more than counterbalanced by their comparative inefficacy. Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 The Indians, seeing the inefficacy of resistance, submitted to the yoke. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) With a few exceptions, the chief of whom are Jane Austen and Alice Meynell, the greatest of them suffer from this garrulous, gesticulating inefficacy. Journalism for Women A Practical Guide In this situation several shots were fired by either party, without effect, until Borroughcliffe, perceiving the inefficacy of that mode of attack, summoned the garrison of the vault to a parley. The Pilot There is no preternatural inefficacy in it by reason of its falseness. Friends in Council — First Series In fine, what idea should we form of the stupidity of the vulgar, who, notwithstanding these confessions, should not cease to pay dearly for remedies, the inefficacy of which every thing tends to prove? Good Sense The prince, whose humanity would not suffer him to insult misery with reproof, went away, convinced of the emptiness of rhetorical sound, and the inefficacy of polished periods and studied sentences. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes She could still hear her lamentation under the stars—the cruelty of nature, the inefficacy of science, the wickedness of humanity, and the need she felt of losing herself in God, in the Unknown. Doctor Pascal But Bentham has said: Every time that punishment is inflicted it proves its inefficacy, for it did not prevent the committal of that crime. The Positive School of Criminology Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901 Great use has been made of the inefficacy of the present law to decry the proposal made by the noble lord for laying a high duty upon these pernicious liquors. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 11. Parlimentary Debates II. If it be urged, that the inefficacy of our measures is a sufficient proof of their impropriety, it will be proper to substitute another plan of operation, of which the success may be more probable. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I Then it was, that his own pain taught him to compassionate others, and his experience of the inefficacy of the methods then in use, incited him to attempt the discovery of others more certain. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons But are not the very number and repetition of these humane provisions sufficient proof of their inefficacy? The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 A second source of the universal depravity was the growing inefficacy of the public religion; and this arose from its disproportion and inadequacy to the intellectual advances of the nation. The Caesars He seems almost to have been sent into the world to prove the inefficacy of human reason to effect human happiness. La Vendée She was defeated, and so profoundly moved in her defeat that she did not even reflect upon the obvious inefficacy of illuminated texts as a deterrent from evil-doing. The Old Wives' Tale But on that night he felt the inefficacy of conventional antidotes to melancholy. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million This great discovery of the inefficacy of magic must have wrought a radical though probably slow revolution in the minds of those who had the sagacity to make it. The Golden Bough But the practice seems now to be so rare, probably because its legal inefficacy is better understood, that it need not be more particularly referred to. Second Shetland Truck System Report Such admissions ought to open people's eyes to the inefficacy of material hygiene, 220:6 and induce sufferers to look in other directions for cause and cure. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures I have always had this feeling of the inefficacy and slow progress of intellectual compared to mechanical excellence, and it has always made me somewhat dissatisfied. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners But the manner in which he had obtained possession of the Spanish crown had proved the inefficacy of such renunciations. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 They have long left off using the waters, after having experienced their inefficacy. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker When the Duke said that he feared that his wishes were not understood, and spoke of the inefficacy of his former declaration, he was alluding of course to the Duchess and to Mr. Sprugeon. The Prime Minister |
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