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.
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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.
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That was the unspoken logic — often unarticulated, always ineffectual.
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And for all his strength, he is often deeply ineffectual.
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There's a small chance it might not be so ineffectual.
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The government is ineffectual there but maintains a symbolic presence.
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The second is that it has made them more ineffectual.
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The C.I.A. launched a similar campaign, but it proved ineffectual.
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Police, ineffectual and disengaged, populate a fair number of pages.
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And at that point conservatism became limp, shallow, and ineffectual.
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Mitt Romney, mostly pushes back by issuing stern but ineffectual tweets.
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The conclusion many people came to was that we were ineffectual.
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On the whole, the Trump administration has been incompetent and ineffectual.
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On Tuesday in Tourcoing, Mr. Macron derided the program as ineffectual.
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His detention of the prime minister of Lebanon was ultimately ineffectual.
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" Another, an especially beautiful story, is titled "Ineffectual Tribute to Len.
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Otherwise I'm just largely ineffectual, and I'm trying not to be.
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Corrupt and ineffectual organizations need to be replaced by effective ones.
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And this gap, critics say, has rendered the agreement largely ineffectual.
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Meanwhile, the great dealmaker at the White House was completely ineffectual.
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State has endured waves of ineffectual "reform" efforts in the past.
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More shocking was that Bloomberg was so ineffectual in defending himself.
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Instead, it proposed an ineffectual non-enforceable lifetime health advisory level.
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But another high-profile failure could leave Trump looking dangerously ineffectual.
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That's not to say the so-called adults were entirely ineffectual.
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Which leaves both mainstream Republicans and Democrats looking pretty limp and ineffectual.
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The World Trade Organization, which sets these rules, has been totally ineffectual.
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With such conflicting forces, it's no wonder Tommen was an ineffectual king.
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Meanwhile, London's security forces are mostly unseen and — of course — totally ineffectual.
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Grieving loss of privilege is as ineffectual as dreaming of American isolationism.
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Fortunately, this line of reasoning is as ineffectual as it is mistaken.
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Some people were outraged, but outrage soon became its own ineffectual reflex.
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They have been dismissed as thugs, vandals, political pawns or simply ineffectual.
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Rather, its record in the region so far is confusing and ineffectual.
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The other counts offer legal but likely ineffectual grounds to block deportations.
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He's always been pretty ineffectual — remember his inane wire crossing last season?
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But even these changes might be too slow and ineffectual on their own.
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A similar approach in the market for comparison-shopping services has been ineffectual.
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Any protest is brutally suppressed, and an ineffectual resistance barely clings to life.
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Ultimately, making Brazil safe will require an overhaul of its rotten, ineffectual institutions.
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Without a clear strategy, efforts to push procreation will remain piecemeal and ineffectual.
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Those who are for him are likely to stick, despite his ineffectual performance.
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Don't treat customers like lazy, ineffectual idiots at the expense of their safety.
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Assailing previous presidents as ineffectual, he vowed to make Mexico pay for it.
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He will be markedly ineffectual and do relatively little of any political consequence.
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William Morva went to jail with a reputation as a particularly ineffectual criminal.
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To dismiss Trump as ineffectual or anomalous is to miss the broader point.
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Being veep — the most ineffectual role in D.C. — has never been so powerful.
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Its leadership is weak and increasingly viewed as corrupt and ineffectual by Palestinians.
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The central bank's efforts to cushion the blow might not be merely ineffectual.
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He's a "bourgeois ineffectual," to borrow a phrase from a Sigrid Nunez novel.
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But the unions were ineffectual because they struggled to rile up their membership.
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Why bother with ineffectual diplomacy if you could just eradicate that pesky enemy?
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In its early years, commissioners were often ineffectual veterans appointed over and over.
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And given the distracted and ineffectual way that the last pope ran the church, it's very easy to imagine a distracted and ineffectual attempt to restrict McCarrick being subverted and ignored by the cardinal and his allies in the hierarchy.
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Counterpropaganda strategies deployed by the U.S. on the Internet have been criticized as ineffectual.
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" She said NYC's system for dealing with the problem felt "indifferent, passive and ineffectual.
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Roberto De Biasio's soft-focus tenor made the caddish Pinkerton a mild, ineffectual presence.
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Raiman leaps into action, while Stripe is virtually ineffectual at covering her from gunfire.
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Your extra thumb or heart would be embarrassingly ineffectual, a drop in the bucket.
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The study also proved that green tea, one supposed bad-breath cure, is ineffectual.
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The decision not to veto was cowardly, hypocritical, wrong, and yet, thankfully, ultimately ineffectual.
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And they say the Trump-endorsed outside support group, America First, is equally ineffectual.
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Indeed, the best outcome from the JASTA bill would be that it is ineffectual.
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But instead of facing the ineffectual Democrats, Abe's decision effectively triggered the party's demise.
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Back in 1994, when the directory was born, search engines were rudimentary and ineffectual.
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A decade later, he still felt singed by that breakup—how ineffectual he'd been.
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Disaster, inflated masculinity, and ineffectual superheroes seemed to be much on the artist's mind.
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Whatever passion drives the characters feels ineffectual and impotent, much like the characters themselves.
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"We knew he wasn't good," Fernandes said, recalling his friend's ineffectual, one-handed backhand.
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Especially as the Great Depression took hold, parliaments and political parties seemed utterly ineffectual.
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Conventional wisdom holds that protest in the internet age has become unfocused and ineffectual.
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So what did Trump's missile strike accomplish beyond a symbolic, ineffectual use of force?
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As Trump looks stronger than ever, his opposition continues to appear ineffectual and divided.
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He says the skilled-worker law could be amended one day if it proves ineffectual.
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Cramer also thought Secretary Clinton would be equally ineffectual, unless there was a Democratic sweep.
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But thanks to the stigma and misunderstanding surrounding HIV, some have found it wholly ineffectual.
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Still, the ineffectual flames got no closer to licking the truth out of the ice.
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Saudi attempts to project leadership in other countries, from Egypt to Lebanon, have been ineffectual.
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Sad to say, the best hope for world affairs is that they will be ineffectual.
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Schumer separately called the wall "ineffectual and expensive" but said he wouldn't negotiate in public.
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It went along with ineffectual United Nations sanctions but enforced them lackadaisically, if at all.
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Mr. Corbyn has been markedly ineffectual as leader, unable to enthuse even his core supporters.
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As embodied with heartbreaking earnestness by Mr. Blum, he is clumsy, irritating and mostly ineffectual.
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That threat of course turned out to be wholly ineffectual in halting the Pakistani program.
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The latter, after years of ineffectual New Republic rule, see the benefits of strong centralized power.
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We may be effective or ineffectual in our efforts, but we do the best we can.
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But he's also been guilty of putting Tyrion into a passive, ineffectual mode for long stretches.
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Though the smaller teams boasted no world-class players, their star-studded opponents were largely ineffectual.
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Both are set in ineffectual, vaguely sinister institutions intended to aid people with mental health issues.
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Take away determination bit by bit, and you have "this ineffectual but brilliant person," says Graham.
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These qualities make it fascinating, but ineffectual as a narrative — or even as a demo reel.
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So far, attempts to muster support for the international regulation of autonomous weapons have been ineffectual.
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Lord Rose, chairman of Britain Stronger In Europe, the pro-EU campaign, has often seemed ineffectual.
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This executive order would leave key environmental statutes on the books while rendering them largely ineffectual.
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The laws were made more ineffectual by landmark changes approved by Vladimir Putin in January 2017.
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Mattis was furious; he thought that the order made his men look simultaneously brutal and ineffectual.
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The Trump administration has been filled with bold pledges about deregulation and relatively ineffectual executive orders.
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Beneath the veneer of star power and nostalgia was an unattractive matchup between two ineffectual teams.
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The counters were largely ineffectual, but staying unpredictable through twenty five minutes is pretty near impossible.
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Kane's play portrays a suicidal soul tormented by internal voices and buffeted by ineffectual medical interventions.
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"You learn at a very young age that, with the Cubs, prayer is ineffectual," he said.
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It is instead a bitter and ineffectual pill, since the rhetoric and the reality don't match.
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Unsworth criticized Musk's efforts to help as ineffectual and a "PR stunt" in a CNN interview.
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In practice, however, civilian review boards have proven to be an ineffectual check against police misconduct.
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Pence reversed himself amid a public outcry and permitted the law to be ineffectual by amendment.
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At the turn of the 20th century, the Senate proved ineffectual in regulating railroads and banking.
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BDS endorsements may seem remote, and even ineffectual, from the perspective of repression on the ground.
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But the protesters have had it with the government, which they see as corrupt, ineffectual and insulting.
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Indeed, by spelling out notions that should be self-evident, they risk making the leadership look ineffectual.
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Making terrorists prohibited purchasers while allowing them to buy guns through private sales would be similarly ineffectual.
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In Latin America, as elsewhere, voters are furious at elites they regard as corrupt, ineffectual and condescending.
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The Lima group's endorsement of the national assembly is a fillip to the divided and ineffectual opposition.
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Then she's just marking time, more or less, and dealing with an ineffectual not-that-scary government.
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In Paraguay in 2012 the military endorsed the lightning impeachment of Fernando Lugo, an ineffectual left-winger.
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Prior to his last attempt to get treatment, William had been through several ineffectual and uncoordinated programs.
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Individual land ownership is often ineffectual for forests and rangelands, which lose their value when parcelled up.
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But the importance of his majority, however slim and ineffectual, does seem to have penetrated Trump's outlook.
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Though Mr. Bratton had expressed support for the concept, he scrapped the program in 1994 as ineffectual.
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This approach is harmful; it appears leaders we have trusted are being brushed aside and made ineffectual.
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"We spent an outrageous amount of money for what really amounted to ineffectual treatment," Mr. Bilkie said.
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Charles is a clinician who is inept at self-analysis and pretty ineffectual at most everything else.
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His male friends, he was a little shocked to learn, were ineffectual, indiscreet, and bizarrely merciless confidants.
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The paper has been an ineffectual shill for Clinton while damaging its own credibility along the way.
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The government will repeal an ineffectual, century-old insolvency law and amend 11 laws now dealing with defaulters.
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He's been a cheerleader for the inhumane and ineffectual sanctions campaign to topple the Maduro government in Venezuela.
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In the 1990s, activism — particularly student activism — was stigmatized as tedious, silly, self-important and, most damningly, ineffectual.
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The term "paper tiger" refers to an outwardly powerful or dangerous force that's actually inwardly weak or ineffectual.
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Applying the same old tools to a very new situation, even though those tools have been proven ineffectual.
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On the other hand, Joe Biden is seen as too moderate and ineffectual by many in the party.
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Tragically, the hard times facing North Korea now are most evident in agriculture, where policy, too, remains ineffectual.
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Tinkle remembers the rest of the Huskies being equally ineffectual, which she chalks up largely to their preparation.
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Chris Liddell led an office that West Wingers privately mock as ineffectual — Jared Kushner's Office of American Innovation.
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And Lorenz Larkin was able to do a similar thing to make most of Albert Tumenov's offense ineffectual.
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His appointment reinvigorated that opposition-dominated legislative body, which had become ineffectual and deeply unpopular in recent years.
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"Negative interest rates struck me as ineffectual," Kudlow said during an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box" from Davos.
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As MacFarquhar notes, the foundation has a history of creating change in areas where governments are often ineffectual.
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Though their ineffectual father seems vaguely sympathetic to their plight, he never stands up to their tyrannical mother.
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The problem with the new bills is not that they are unconstitutional; it is that they are ineffectual.
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With the U.S. ineffectual in discouraging nuclear proliferation on the Korean peninsula, neighboring countries have pivoted toward China.
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The Ad Library came under fire last year for being ineffectual in Facebook&aposs efforts to curb misinformation.
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Hunters do not normally employ shields, ineffectual against the strength of the beasts as they tend to be.
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But a fractured opposition has proven an ineffectual restraint on the kleptocratic and authoritarian impulses of President Hernández.
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Also, if we must name something after Greta Thunberg, can it not be a tiny, ineffectual, blind, flightless beetle?
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She doesn't have much to do in Crimes at all, besides shouting ineffectual protests as Credence makes poor decisions.
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Clarence (Key) and Rell (Peele) are best-bud cousins living in Los Angeles, both of them hopeless, ineffectual nerds.
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Twitter remains phenomenally influential, but the company's initiatives to capitalize on its popularity to generate profit have proven ineffectual.
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She's well-cast in a role that mostly just asks her to play the earnest, forlorn, ineffectual straight-liner.
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Was it inevitable that an administration that supports an "America first" foreign policy propose such drastic and ineffectual cuts?
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The post-Watergate reforms were undermined, though, by the ineffectual Democratic president, Jimmy Carter, elected in the scandal's wake.
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Numerous ineffectual commissions investigating the crimes against the Rohingya have been established, but have thus far offered inconsistent findings.
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Effie's feminine fashion symbolizes an ineffectual and "unnatural" aristocracy; in contrast, the proletarian Katniss loves and understands the woods.
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Asked about funding on Tuesday, Schumer called the wall "ineffectual and expensive" but said he wouldn't negotiate in public.
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Four ineffectual, inflation-ravaged years in office didn't cause the typical Jimmy Carter voter to suddenly turn against him.
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In the same vein, Mr. Trump just announced a counterproductive and ineffectual suspension of travel from much of Europe.
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When the imperial rulers became ineffectual or tyrannical, they could rightly be removed in a coup or a revolution.
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And I believe what I always said, that the mass collection of data is not only illegal, it's ineffectual.
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The Jets (0-53) have been ineffectual in his absence and are off to their worst start since 2003.
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She said that testifying in court during the pretrial phase of the current case had so far felt ineffectual.
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There's also the corrupt and ineffectual police and criminal justice system, with a homicide conviction rate below 22013 percent.
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It is the language of people who believe that politics is pointless and that its institutions have become ineffectual.
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His predecessor, Arnold Fields, was pushed out after what many considered an ineffectual 2-and-a-half-year tenure.
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As in performance, your body— earnest-eyed, humble, and mostly ineffectual — is the vessel that makes brief communion possible.
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Laws like these that were allegedly put in place to prevent transmission have been proven not just ineffectual, but counterproductive.
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It is hard to reconcile these tragic deaths, both animal and human, with the demand for trinkets and ineffectual potions.
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Your line of thought suggests that any new drug not passing phases one to three in clinical protocols is ineffectual.
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This situation is similar to what happened when the Turkish government attempted to ban Twitter—the gesture was largely ineffectual.
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Those in power don't want to acknowledge that so they prefer to portray us as thugs or as ineffectual dreamers.
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Adults were regularly portrayed as so comically ineffectual they needed to be saved by the kids whom they'd previously disregarded.
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If for some reason you can't, look hard for those ineffectual USB Implementers Forum logos that theoretically denote safe cables.
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Perhaps more important is the growing despair of Brazilian business at the prospect of another three years of ineffectual government.
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While Mitchell is conducting this ineffectual affair, his wife is having a considerably more successful one, with a black man.
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Indeed, Gorbachev was soon sidelined and the Russians were left with Yeltsin, ineffectual and buffoonish, corrupt and too often drunk.
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The cross-examination of Ford by committee counsel Rachel Mitchell, an Arizona sex crimes prosecutor, was polite, professional and ineffectual.
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This interpretation depicts decertification as a "legal placebo" – a harmless, if ineffectual, way to make a petulant president feel better.
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The game was as ineffectual as you'd expect, a montage of semi-scripted big plays and beefy, stagy forced chuckles.
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Jason O'Connell brought complexity to the role of John Kempe, who is as ineffectual and pathetic as he is cruel.
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As a result, I inherited this mess of ineffectual support and information; she wasn't able to show up for me.
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In July 2015, an article published by investigative journalism nonprofit ProPublica took the agency to task for its ineffectual database.
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This proposition doesn't mesh with an ineffectual enforcement policy and a border that, to most voters, looks like Swiss cheese.
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The invitation for anyone to catch as many of the fugitive fish as possible was, at best, ineffectual, he said.
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But if so it's the most ineffectual coup imaginable, with no actual plan for changing the direction of his pontificate.
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By shifting gears from the ineffectual gun control debate to the Collaborative Firearms Education Initiative, the narrative begins to change.
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Kyle Korver, not known as a defensive player, made a vague and ineffectual flap at him as he sailed by.
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Anyone familiar with Mr. Chaffetz's record of partisan, ineffectual witch-hunting won't be surprised to learn that he's done nothing.
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Ineffectual boards can provide the local power brokers with political cover against media scrutiny and community resentment over police misconduct.
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The mainstream Democrats, who have raged against the defectors at great and ineffectual length, are also eyeing the 2018 races.
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According to a 2016 report from the Harvard Business Review, traditional sensitivity training can be ineffectual and can breed resentment.
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If you want to be happy and powerful, he says, you need to stand up straight: If your posture is poor, for example — if you slump, shoulders forward and rounded, chest tucked in, head down, looking small, defeated and ineffectual (protected, in theory, against attack from behind) — then you will feel small, defeated, and ineffectual.
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For many Taiwanese, the Republic of China, Taiwan's official name, is a figleaf for independence; Sun is an old ineffectual ghost.
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After decoy limos proved ineffectual against the cunning fans, the Beatles were shuttled into venues in a military-like armored car.
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Another factor is oppressive, ineffectual government, which gives locals little to cheer about and plenty of grievances against which to fight.
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The content or uses of such media are as diverse as they are ineffectual in shaping the form of human association.
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Paradoxically, Russian interference is far too ineffectual to get us there—but domestically mounted attacks by all-American political actors might.
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The mechanical T-Rex charges across the desert landscape as I pepper it with a hailstorm of seemingly ineffectual fire arrows.
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Twenty-four years of mostly ineffectual leadership slid inexorably into the Civil War; Abraham Lincoln gave birth to a new America.
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Never before had Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili — the core of four N.B.A. championship teams — looked so collectively ineffectual.
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The first two committee counsels were dismissed as ineffectual, while a third quit because he was not allowed to subpoena witnesses.
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After trying various supplements that proved ineffectual, she went to a meeting for Women Grow, an industry group for cannabis entrepreneurs.
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In its absence, the Iraqi state had collapsed, and in its place was a small, ineffectual council of American-appointed leaders.
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Never mind that real solutions for this real issue exist amid Trump's talk of ineffectual walls, sealed borders, and nonexistent terrorists.
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He is also in the middle of committing one of the clumsiest, most ineffectual, but brilliant crimes of the 21st century.
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"It shows how ineffectual the enforcement situation is," said Toby Edelman, a senior policy attorney at the Center for Medicare Advocacy.
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Rex Tillerson, once known as a corporate titan, will now be remembered for his brief, ineffectual record as secretary of state.
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Iraq's ineffectual prime minister, hamstrung by pressure from Iraqi militias and neglect from Washington, abandoned the job after the Soleimani killing.
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That isn't necessarily unusual for a prime-time soap, but men in "Good Witch" are a particularly clueless and ineffectual bunch.
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Other ineffectual and even dangerous treatments include smoking to treat asthma and sexual intercourse with virgins as a cure for syphilis.
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Recent repatriation deals with Bangladesh — which were really only dusted-off versions of ineffectual agreements from the 0003s — have accomplished nothing.
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In "The Godfather," Fredo Corleone is the middle, forgotten son; his associates view him as ineffectual, the worst kind of gangster.
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Meanwhile, Arizona special interests are pushing to undercut the democratic rights of Arizonans to mount ballot initiatives to get around ineffectual legislatures.
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The proactive power fantasy of Fortnite is as ineffectual as any others are, and it's because it cannot truly alter its format.
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A great many claims today are based on domestic violence or risks from murderous criminal gangs, in the context of ineffectual government.
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Now, ex-President Ian Khama, who imposed the ban five years ago, says lifting the legislation would be both unwise and ineffectual.
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In addition, sanctions are widely regarded as ineffectual if there are no existing splits amongst elites or opposition movements within the country.
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But the President risks a backlash if he proves ineffectual at solving the pernicious problems that have plagued their communities for decades.
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After two rounds of ineffectual work on the outside against King Mo, Davis actually got comfortable throwing combinations from within striking range.
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It appears members of this ineffectual and abusive production company recognized their hypocrisy and sought to apply real action to their words.
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Her ineffectual leadership has been compounded by her scripted style; among her critics she was derided early on as "the notebook princess".
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Ah-In Yoo stars as Jong-su, the quiet, ineffectual young man obsessed with his former classmade Hae-mi (Jong-seo Jeon).
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Coups are far less common these days; the African Union, often an ineffectual organisation, has recently taken a firm stand against them.
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It was part of Trump's regular attacks on Bush as he painted him as weak and ineffectual throughout the GOP presidential primaries.
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"Remaining silent in an effort to curry favor with Turkey is as morally indefensible as it will be ineffectual," Mr. Schiff said.
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But given the profusion of well-meaning but ineffectual police training programs, he said, the aim here is for what is feasible.
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In 2005, Bush nominated Bolton as the US' ambassador to the UN — an institution Bolton has regularly decried as useless and ineffectual.
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Critics have savaged the settlement, arguing it is ineffectual, and non-profit EPIC has sought to get involved in the legal process.
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Lawmakers in both parties could face voter anger in November, if only for being ineffectual in doing anything about the governor's cuts.
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She's no genius — her Asia policy, in particular, is so ineffectual and contradictory as to be worthless — but you saw the debate?
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Emirati troops did most of the heavy fighting on the ground in South Yemen, while Saudi jets provided often ineffectual air support.
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Mr. de Blasio's diversions into national politics came at the price of appearing ineffectual on a larger stage and disengaged back home.
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They govern much of daily life for residents living in their areas of control, stand-ins for a corrupt and ineffectual government.
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As might be expected, they are all old white men — centuries old, in fact — who are as ineffectual as they are talky.
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But in an instant, we watched those precious papers we cling to made ineffectual by the whims of a few powerful Islamophobes.
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She also joined Obama in declaring that Assad had to go, even though the U.S. has been ineffectual in making that happen.
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The American military has had to take the lead in expanding the Afghan government's capacity because our civilian agencies have been ineffectual.
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It plays like a dime-store "Dangerous Liaisons," with a touch of "Amadeus" in Joseph Quinn's twitchy performance as Catherine's ineffectual son.
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Joe Antos, a health policy expert at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, argued Trump has largely been ineffectual on health care.
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At first, things like the drawing mechanic (you just move around the left stick to make Sean sketch) seem ineffectual and unnecessary.
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Rolled out of their usual rooms into the hallway, some people lay in their beds in front of a large, ineffectual fan.
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Compared to the president's many strange and ineffectual stand-ins, Gaetz seems, even in his wildest flights and absurdist accusations, remarkably sane.
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America's China policy since Reagan has oscillated between intellectualized inconsistency (Bush) and impotent obeisance couched in the somber tones of ineffectual, nuance.
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Selin could be any number of his gentle, ineffectual intellectuals, whose very gentleness and ineffectuality make them so important, according to Nabokov.
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Colossal is unmissably harsh on its male characters, all of whom are sheepish and ineffectual at absolute best, and downright malevolent at worst.
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TAFURI: But a weak ineffectual Trump meeting with Putin and having Putin get the best of him is not going to improve things.
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Mr. Trump's "America First" approach to economic policy has sometimes brought him into conflict with international organizations, which he has criticized as ineffectual.
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The coalition headed by the prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, may be ineffectual and unpopular, but it still holds a solid majority in parliament.
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Whether the end result resembles funk hardly matters; fluid rhythms and strong riffs enliven what might otherwise dissolve into a flighty ineffectual puddle.
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So far, the general response by Trump's critics to his norm-violations has been verbal, amounting to little more than ineffectual tut-tutting.
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Thus far Macron's economic proposals overlap significantly with those of his predecessor Hollande — and those provoked a political backlash and were economically ineffectual.
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And if Bartlet doesn't cut it for us, we have so many other presidential options, running the gauntlet from MVP to completely ineffectual.
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In the past, the modern and media-savvy Podemos likened the party to the Grouchy Smurf—an ineffectual grumbler, incapable of winning power.
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For months, the Minnesota senator has languished in public opinion polls outside of the top tier — an ineffectual moderate alternative to Joe Biden.
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This is an issue of the wrong people being ineffectual at their jobs, and their ineffectiveness leading to the death of innocent people.
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Recently, a federal watchdog report concluded that the government's main cyber defense system, known as "Einstein," was largely ineffectual at thwarting sophisticated hackers.
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Either way, it seems to work with domestic audiences fed up with what they see as the ineffectual platitudes offered by mainstream politicians.
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Even the "all right?" had an edge, like the verbal fillip ineffectual parents add on when demanding better behavior from a misbehaving child.
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And in the age of social media, it can be ineffectual, sometimes demanding nothing more than adding our name to an online petition.
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In interviews across the country, Republican voters suggested that Mr. Romney's move was presumptuous and described him as out of touch and ineffectual.
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A roughly 500-year period was glossed as a time of "Oriental decline," wherein Muslim empires were said to languish under ineffectual despots.
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To the Raffs, it felt as if history was repeating itself, as if the pointless, ineffectual Microsoft case was happening all over again.
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Connor is so ineffectual, he's barely gotten a storyline on this show, despite Alan Ruck's obvious skill at playing such a stuffed shirt.
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Often, it finds its source in his hapless characters' everyday awkwardness, with which Atalla — who considers himself a "low-level, ineffectual troublemaker" — sympathizes.
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Others have moved on and reserve their contempt for the Democratic establishment and what they view as its ineffectual response to President Trump.
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Indeed, she predicted the most likely response would be an ineffectual missile strike from Iran on Iraqi bases where American troops were stationed.
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She declined to slam Sanders' views — but went after him for being ineffectual and for some of his supporters' vitriolic approach to politics.
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In the meantime, local governments are left with administrative moves by the executive branch that have widely been perceived as cosmetic and ineffectual.
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He often expressed contempt for what he described as the "ponderous" and "ineffectual" headquarters bureaucracy under J. Edgar Hoover, the former F.B.I. director.
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Republicans steamrolled his ineffectual replacement as governor, retook the Senate with the help of Democratic turncoats, and rolled back the left-wing turn.
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They argued that the two inmates' particular medical conditions made it likely that the sedative would be ineffectual, making the executions unconstitutionally painful.
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By choosing an Afro-Cuban prime minister, Mr. Díaz-Canel could have positioned himself as more than the ineffectual successor of the Castros.
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Russia, exhausted and desperate from three years of disastrous war with Germany and its allies, was being run by ineffectual and well-meaning moderates.
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However, doctors at Alder Hey argued that keeping Evans on life support would not just be ineffectual, but actively harmful to Alfie's well-being.
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Lead and copper contamination can come from irresponsible industry, aging pipes, ineffectual water treatment plants and too little investment in our public water infrastructure.
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Alas, his rule proves ineffectual as his policies and ideas differ wildly from one another because he's never had a style of his own.
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However ineffectual Cambridge Analytica's efforts have been, Facebook is still on the hook when it comes to "fake news" and misinformation in the region.
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Football star Fridge is now an ineffectual Kevin Hart, whose main abilities are carrying a large backpack and commenting on how short he is.
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But for all its beleaguered neighborhoods ignored by a corrupt government and an ineffectual or actively harmful police force, Chicago is still Chance's home.
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All I'm getting out of this is a bunch of quick cuts between identical robots and spaceships flying around each other in ineffectual circles.
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Second, Brussels must confront the new Polish government in a manner that is profoundly different from its timid, inconsistent, and ineffectual approach to Orban.
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Call me cynical, but Obama has been ineffectual in alleviating the humanitarian disaster that goes by the name of Syria — and everyone knows it.
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They also argue that video has been ineffectual: many times, the public has watched the police abuse and kill black men without facing conviction.
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Yadav, who received a university education in Australia yet became typecast as the ineffectual scion of a political patriarch, decided he needed a makeover.
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The World Trade Organization, for example, has become completely ineffectual," he said, adding later: "International multilateral organizations are not going to determine American policy.
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I will not unlearn the lessons he taught me, nor the muscle memory of how ineffectual my body weight was at pushing off his.
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A number of academic studies have shown how D.A.R.E. was at best ineffectual and, at worst, more likely to convince kids to try drugs.
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Guatemala's ineffectual president, Jimmy Morales, a former comedian, will soon hand power to the winner of an election to be held on August 202017th.
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Europe is being swept by populist fury, much of it directed at the European Union — at its centralizing tendencies and its often ineffectual results.
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Mr. de Blasio staked his political identity on aiding New York City's less fortunate, and has been attacked by critics as an ineffectual manager.
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At worst, Japan could go back to the bad old days when the country cycled through ineffectual prime ministers who lasted a few months each.
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Throughout season 7, showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff scooted him firmly to the back burner, where he sat and fretted and was generally ineffectual.
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But critics say this new bill is flawed and will likely be ineffectual in moving the dial on the viewing and sharing of extremist content.
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Units are totally ineffectual against their counter-units, so you simply have to have the right units for the job on hand, or face defeat.
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Whether one likes or dislikes his deeds, the 45th president will distinguish himself from the conventional politicians whom he has often derided as ineffectual blowhards.
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Aside from the weak and ineffectual Weimar Republic of the interwar years, Germany lacked a democratic tradition from which to draw stability, norms and custom.
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As Wolfensberger noted, these restraints on the Imperial Presidency were only partial and often ineffectual, as post-Nixon presidents found ways to work around them.
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It was formatted to appear on FCC letterhead in business letter format and used a term preferred by the far right to denote ineffectual conservatives.
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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.
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This state of civic decrepitude is the bane of the ineffectual Mayor Evans (John Ellison Conlee), whose problems are about to become a lot worse.
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The real ambition, he said, was to build the foundations of a sustained resistance movement that could circumvent the ineffectual opposition and reenergize Hungarian democracy.
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Whether it's because he's a liar or just because he's ineffectual, this rhetoric has nothing to do with the actual conduct of the Trump administration.
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" In a 2012 memo to park superintendents, NPS director Jarvis said the agency's policies "do not require what is impossible, economically infeasible, or likely ineffectual.
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The Galactic Senate is rendered as a sea of pods around a cavernous rotunda — and, is an ineffectual check on a tyrant's push for war.
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Nor could she endorse a conclusion in which people are ineffectual in shaping their fate: Orestes is spared only when Athena breaks the jury's deadlock.
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But that rush of pure adrenaline turned out to be a false dawn instead of the cathartic boost this talented but ultimately ineffectual team required.
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Discrimination based on protected characteristics like race and gender is already illegal, but those rules are ineffectual against the current technologies of surveillance and control.
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The Iraqi government—embattled, paralyzed, ineffectual—seems highly unlikely to carry out meaningful evacuations or large-scale relief efforts in the event of a breach.
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Absent some satisfactory calibration, our national security agencies run the risk of being marginalized and ultimately irrelevant and ineffectual, with grave consequences for national security.
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The Indonesian government's recent decision to block Telegram is an ineffectual form of prevention because it targets the means of radicalization rather than its sources.
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Bannon may have been a keeper of the flame, but his penchant for political knife-fighting, lobbing grenades and leaking on his rivals was ineffectual.
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It also invigorated the opposition, which had appeared rudderless and largely ineffectual since a wave of protests in 2017 was crushed by the security forces.
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Your group of survivors was not, at the start of the game, just a group of random personalities thrown together to create an ineffectual commune.
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Fans have commented for years on how an organization like the Jedi Council was ineffectual at confronting the Clone Wars and mired in its own traditions.
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Especially in the impoverished south, voters saw the populists as better just because they were not the left establishment, which they viewed as uncaring and ineffectual.
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Flynn is deeply disliked by much of the intelligence community and the top military brass and is fairly likely to be ineffectual as national security adviser.
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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.
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"I think you could make the case, especially with negative interest rates now, that monetary policy has gone from being ineffectual to being harmful," he said.
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His successor could be worse As ineffectual, at times, as Tillerson has been, it cannot be assumed that things couldn't get any worse under new management.
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Chait sees the interplay between radicals and policymakers as a burden foisted on Republicans, while Democrats merely have to fend off demands from an ineffectual left.
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While it was great to get the dragon-like Pokémon from a strategic standpoint, it was always bittersweet to say farewell to the adorable, ineffectual Magikarp.
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In an essay published Monday in Nature Ecology & Evolution, the authors argue that the Lorax may not have been as bossy and ineffectual as he seems.
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Ending the so-called individual mandate was Republicans' most direct blow to President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement after a year of misses and ineffectual attacks.
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And by all banding together in one small, completely ineffectual, powerless party, you can leave the rest of us alone to actually get some shit done.
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His halfhearted attempt to cover himself with one hand as he swayed was mostly ineffectual, which only made his friends laugh harder and cover their eyes.
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Rather, it's that the adults were merely a haphazard and ineffectual barrier against Trump's instincts — which, contrary to some popular myths, have always been quite hawkish.
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In Suto Orizari, most people see political leaders as ineffectual and have yet to see a candidate who will fight for funding for Roma communities, Memet said.
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But many Labour lawmakers see his leadership style as ineffectual, his policies as out of touch with voters' views and his commitment to party reform as hollow.
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Aware that they could not solve the problem of parties altogether, the founders thought the constitution would at least ensure that they were reasonably numerous and ineffectual.
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They say this is not only ethical but will greatly reduce costs for Californian taxpayers, who have spent more than $5bn since 1978 on the ineffectual programme.
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If they behave instead as party loyalists, the greatest risk is not that an ineffectual Fed will allow inflation like that of the 1970s to take hold.
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In a move that was dissected almost immediately, Bruce Bochy removed Moore for the ninth to bring in a string of ineffectual relievers starting with Derek Law.
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But this week's reactions to Trump's budget hints point toward a long, draining, contentious process likely to further stymie the regime's showy but so far ineffectual agenda.
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Yet Trump's argument will please his supporters, who reject the premise of the international liberal order and multinational institutions, and believe the previous Obama administration was ineffectual.
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Russia's surprise success in the prolonged civil contrasts well against America's long, bloody intervention in Iraq, not to mention Washington's ineffectual insistence that Assad must step down.
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With a broad mandate from Congress, the DoD risks either setting overly ambitious goals and overextending Pentagon resources or reducing Congressional intent into an ineffectual bureaucratic task.
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Public uproar has hounded Baidu after a student suffering from a fatal form of cancer blamed the company for directing him to suspect and ultimately ineffectual treatment.
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It is a visual rendering of white men as helpless and ineffectual while their white women are being defiled (though with the implied approval of their oversight).
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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.
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" 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.
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Then there's that eerily poised girl (Fina Strazza), who might have stepped out of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" and mysteriously channels Rachel's ineffectual therapist, Stephen (Greg Keller).
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I think Mueller ducked the tough decisions he faced at the end of his investigation and issued an ineffectual report that failed to come to clear conclusions.
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His ineffectual latter years belied formidable willpower and political talent, which earned him the nickname, as Prime Minister Georges Pompidou's troubleshooter in the 1960s, of "the bulldozer".
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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.
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It replaced an earlier group that was charged with fighting online messaging from terror groups such as the Islamic State, but was frequently criticized for being ineffectual.
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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.
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"On the Palestinian side, you have an ineffectual leader, Mahmoud Abbas, who has not been very effective in bringing his side to the table either," O'Rourke said.
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For example, there are hanging panes of bulletproof glass, spattered with icons of feminity, ineffectual attempts to shatter the glass ceiling—an injustice more evident on the web.
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When I talk to Bahmanzadeh, it's a struggle to keep his focus—unanswered questions about ineffectual lawyers or evidence barge into his head, derailing his train of thought.
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Or maybe he just wanted to bring out his trademark TV catchphrase, perhaps in a misguided bid to boost his popularity amid an ineffectual first year in office.
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But to see the footsoldiers of Trump's notorious internet army revealed as ineffectual bullies armed with keyboards and exactly zero common sense is a twist for the ages.
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Hardy portrayed the oblivious and ineffectual Minister of Magic in four movies, starting with 2002's Chamber of Secrets and running through 2007's Order of the Phoenix.
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That makes tariffs both ineffectual and pointless, and it may be that we are in for more of the same—the facsimile of chaos with manageable economic effects.
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Combat is held back as long as possible, guns are tinny and ineffectual, and the enemies all feel like empty suits that just flop down dead, en masse.
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Canada has been asking allies to raise the matter of the two men in their interactions with China, a pressure campaign that Beijing on Wednesday dismissed as ineffectual.
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Environmentalists caution that farming is unlikely to benefit other endangered species, such as tigers and rhinos, and may only create demand for the ineffectual "medicines" made from them.
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Such conflicting, uncoordinated efforts have led to an environment in which the government machine produces ad hoc, largely ineffectual, Madison Avenue - like media products that waste taxpayers' money.
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Even the daring yet ill-fated Operation Eagle Claw rescue attempt in April 1980 only served to cement the image of America as a diminished, ineffectual world power.
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After extended periods of ineffectual leadership, people may become jaded about reform campaigns, and shock and awe may be required if they are to to be taken seriously.
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This strange presidential aesthetic is replicated on the international stage, where we have regressed as a civilized nation from once-dignified and purposeful leadership to ineffectual global belligerence.
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In other words, China's latest family-planning policies aren't just another violation of women's rights; they are also an ineffectual means of promoting the government's population-growth agenda.
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Each case, along with a number of others recently taken up by the court, has cast the governing party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, as corrupt or ineffectual.
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Now, at twenty-nine, he's become a leading figure in the movement to strike juveniles from the registry and to challenge broader restrictions that he believes are ineffectual.
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I will remember Barack Obama as a basically good man who overplayed his hand his first two years in office and was ineffectual the rest of his term.
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Congress has the power to help Puerto Rico shrug off its ineffectual government and take some concrete steps toward escaping its decade-long recession and creating jobs again.
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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.
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After Isabelle's failed attempt to fix their engine and her ineffectual call to the local mechanic, it turns out these characters are going to have some time to kill.
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The implication, to many of the viewers, was that American fascists are ineffectual and silly, quite different from their German counterparts, no matter how similar their ideology might be.
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Both as a leader and as a protagonist, as one of the series's primary load-bearing characters, Jon is one of the most ineffectual people on the entire show.
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Those MPs think he was at best ineffectual, and at worst actively sabotaged the campaign to stay in the EU, and so held a no-confidence vote on Tuesday.
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He sat in the cabinet for only a few months, as the second in a line of ineffectual Brexit secretaries, and comes across as ideological, blinkered and throbbingly boring.
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And Nafta did include provisions that in theory could do that, but they were oblique and ineffectual, partly because businesspeople on both sides of the border opposed stronger ones.
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She lost popularity among both Republicans and Democrats; Democrats attempted to distance themselves from her during the 2010 elections because she became a symbolism of ineffectual leadership and liberalism.
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It was meant to ensure that the Obama government appeared dysfunctional and broken and prove the argument that Obama is ineffectual, weak, and unable to reach across the aisle.
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No doubt the White House calculation was that, if President Obama acknowledged the letter, personally praised the doctors and condemned the Syrian and Russian airstrikes, he would look ineffectual.
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White's utterly ineffectual regime gave rise to a flurry of significant negative attention on "beleaguered SEC Chair Mary Jo White," ranging from wonky critiques delivered by letter from Sen.
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By attacking Ryan on Twitter as disloyal and a "weak and ineffectual leader," Trump is setting up the Wisconsin lawmaker as the scapegoat for a possible Election Day disaster.
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The industry has also been largely ineffectual in lobbying the various state and territory governments to open up more onshore exploration areas and end bans that have been imposed.
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If Reichardt's ineffectual years in Hollywood taught her anything, it was the value of identifying undesirable ways of working and living — and then developing the confidence to avoid them.
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The president's initial ineffectual response to the events that led to the killing of counter-protester Heather Heyer have resulted in the withdrawal of executives from Trump's advisory council.
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Right now the FEC is largely ineffectual, as it often deadlocks on a 3-3 vote (and right now it has only four members, the minimum for a quorum).
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Mr. Pacino's interpretation of the character is not ineffectual, and it finds its match in a Salomé played by Jessica Chastain, appearing several years before she achieved screen stardom.
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So May is likely to stay prime minister, but will likely become an increasingly ineffectual unpopular one as she tries to navigate the country through the complex Brexit process.
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It came next for the technocrats and the data nerds of the Democratic Party, who were revealed as ineffectual, clueless and self-regarding in opposing Trump's clown-car campaign.
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Mr. Obama's ineffectual "pivot to Asia" undermined confidence among Australians that Washington had the resolve to resist Beijing's ambitions, or the finesse to do so without provoking a war.
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The hearings may spin out of control and make Democratic politicians seem ineffectual and obsessive, as the stonewalling testimony of a former Trump aide, Corey Lewandowski, did last week.
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The last we heard from the company, it was emerging from a — disastrous is too strong a word, but perhaps we could say ineffectual — fact-checking partnership with Facebook.
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Until recent days, the National Assembly had been regarded as ineffectual, and led by politicians who had lost popular support as their efforts to challenge Mr. Maduro faltered repeatedly.
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And Conor Friedersdorf of the Atlantic tweeted that he was "happy to entertain" the idea that such actions might be politically productive, but he perceived mostly ineffectual self-congratulation.
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She might be ineffectual in her new position at Facebook, and I can't imagine Zuckerberg would have a problem with that as long as it looks like she's doing something.
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So did Tottenham sensation Dele Alli in England's first World Cup qualifier on September 4, who had to sit so that England's ineffectual captain could play behind striker Harry Kane.
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Even his final moments on-screen in the finale were passive and ineffectual, as he lurked in the darkness outside Dany's room, watching her welcome Jon Snow into her bed.
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Such heady comparisons, though, seem far-fetched in Venezuela right now where not just government officials but even some cynical opposition supporters scoff at the flash protests as ineffectual stunts.
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So, some of my best friends, it is apparently well-understood on the left that the "some of my best friends are" argument is not only ineffectual and insufficient... Yes.
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He proved to be an ineffectual party leader and resigned from the speakership in 1998 after the GOP had the worst electoral showing in 64 years, losing five House seats.
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She was the last Baratheon in Westeros — legally speaking, at least — and her absence has the potential to create even more of a power vacuum in Tommen's already ineffectual reign.
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The government has cracked down on corruption, which had flourished under the previous president, Goodluck Jonathan, an ineffectual buffoon who let politicians and their cronies fill their pockets with impunity.
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While the ferry fiasco was unfolding, Mr. Grayling organized a spectacularly ineffectual demonstration of Britain's ability to deal with the backups of truck traffic expected in a no-deal Brexit.
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It's said routinely that we live in an age of slacktivism—that gathering large crowds in support of a cause has been made both simple and ineffectual by social media.
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He's certain to deem them culpable for stymying Moore and to rage at them, if only to divert attention from how ineffectual his blessing of Moore turned out to be.
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Trump serves as an ineffectual figurehead, talking tough but not really being able to engage with the policy details enough to properly negotiate an unprecedented rollback of the welfare state.
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Miller positions Superman as Batman's true rival, a polite water carrier for ineffectual elites and authority figures, a symbol of weakness and civil decline to which Batman provides the antidote.
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Confusion, rebellion, frustration, economic instability, a wounded national pride, ineffectual political leadership -- and the desire for a strong man who would do something, who would bring order out of the chaos.
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Lawmakers often oppose proposals made on the other side of the aisle not because they disagree on substance, but in order to make the other side look heartless, corrupt, and ineffectual.
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The band of bike-riding unpaid vigilantes chases down petty criminals in Vietnam's largest city and the neighboring province of Binh Duong, where residents grumble about rising crime and ineffectual policing.
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The third argument against variable geometry, again expressed by a senior Eurocrat, is that too much variation would turn the union into an ineffectual organisation reminiscent of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Earlier this year it was at the center of a national media outcry when a student with a fatal cancer blamed Baidu ads for directing him to suspect, ultimately ineffectual treatment.
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For the alt-right, "censorship" is everything up to and including criticism of outright bigotry, and SJWs are painted as ineffectual proponents of everything from racial tolerance to nanny state politics.
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" "Moral panic might be influencing formalization and might increase due to it," the article said and might "result in poorly thought out and ineffectual public policy efforts to restrict gaming time.
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But it's lurking there, under every scene where Mickey turns to alcohol, pot, or sex to distract her from her problems, or whenever Gus is painfully needy and ineffectual at work.
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Daley, who served as President Barack Obama's top staffer for a little over a year, slammed Trump as an ineffectual leader and claimed Trump had run his businesses as an autocrat.
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"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.
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"Given that we have seen almost a year's worth of quantitative easing, there is a concern that policy is proving somewhat ineffectual," said Chris Williamson, chief economist at survey compiler Markit.
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Though Trump did enforce such a red line in April 2017 in a fairly ineffectual cruise missile strike, and acted again in April 2018, such threats today are now resoundingly empty.
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In these poems she finds a portrait of Southampton that doesn't tally with the traditional stereotype of the patron as an effeminate, ineffectual youth engaged in a love affair with Shakespeare.
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The 13,000 United Nations peacekeeping troops and police officers in South Sudan have been ineffectual, unable even to protect civilians in United Nations-run refugee areas, called protection-of-civilian sites.
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So the six-member commission in charge of regulating and enforcing how campaigns can raise and spend money often reaches deadlocks, leading critics to label the group as partisan and ineffectual.
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These kinds of volunteer experiences can range from ineffectual to harmful: Some orphanages have even been found to intentionally keep conditions as dismal as possible in order to attract more volunteers.
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And so wicked parents became wicked mothers acting on their own, and then wicked stepmothers; fathers were rewritten to be either virtuous but ineffectual or absent; trickster children were erased entirely.
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Large majorities oppose mass deportations, because they are cruel, as well as President Trump's proposed wall along the United States-Mexico border, because it will be ineffectual as well as expensive.
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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.
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However, one activist, Jagdeep Chhokar, a founding member of the Association for Democratic Reforms, a nonprofit organization, dismissed the change as ineffectual, saying donors would simply slice contributions into $30 pieces.
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Thunberg and her fellow youth activists seem frustrated by sluggish and ineffectual efforts of adults, and are not willing to hand out self-congratulation for a renewed wave of protests, either.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Lipstick shades are kissing off Japan's short-lived economic recovery, and fashion industry hues are turning as somber as a central banker after another ineffectual splurge of money printing.
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The result today is that even when a decision endorses Fourth Amendment protection —and requires a warrant, as in Carpenter — that protection is easy to avoid, and likely ineffectual in practice.
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After the Mutant leader is put in jail, he tears out the throat of Gotham's mayor, one of the story's many ineffectual social and political elites, using his file-sharpened teeth.
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That's what America sorely needs in foreign policy, where we have for too long been mired in a deadly status quo of ineffectual and often counterproductive intervention -- especially in the Middle East.
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This after that dreadful presentation where Ronda Rousey was dragged up to talk about how ineffectual sports bras are for an MMA fighter and how the new gear will be far superior.
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But if they can't have that, then an ineffectual US government, one at odds with itself and thus limited in its ability to counter Russian influence globally, is a nice second best.
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Jared Kushner, Trump's influential son-in-law, seems to have views similar to this group — as does Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, though he's been largely ineffectual in internal White House debates.
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But the truth is that aside from being wrong and ineffectual, even from a political standpoint the U.S. allowing the Resolution to pass was likely actually harmful to the overall peace process.
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This was the year that many liberals turned to forms of protest that were convenient and often social media–based, but ultimately ineffectual: Drumpf hats, safety pins, and thinkpieces about Harry Potter.
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For the US, the singular focus on North Korea is not only naive and ineffectual, but also masks other consequential issues in the relationship that need to be addressed directly and candidly.
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But lacking any reproductions, his florid (often erudite) exegesis of lesser known artists makes the book often ineffectual — short of turning pages with one hand as the other gooses an internet connection.
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He was terribly ineffectual but such a compelling showman that, in 199153, voters sent him to the U.S. Senate over a young man named Lyndon Johnson—the only election Johnson ever lost.
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Bewkes argued "tectonic changes" in the media industry have rendered traditional networks, like Time Warner, ineffectual advertisers, as evidenced by falling advertising revenue and the decline of pay-TV, as a whole.
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A number of Republicans have caught flak for offering "thoughts and prayers" after recent mass shootings, with critics calling it an ineffectual response and pushing for GOP lawmakers to take legislative action.
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Last year's profit drop coincided with investigations into how third parties used Baidu's advertising service, prompted by the death of a cancer patient who found ineffectual treatment via ads placed with Baidu.
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As played by Cian Barry and April Pearson (a graduate of the terrific British TV series "Skins"), the interlopers are a weird, disgusting delight, easily dominating the movie and their ineffectual hosts.
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones responded to Twitter's seven-day platform ban Wednesday by posting a video to Twitter in which he blasted the company for its ineffectual attempt to shut him down.
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Players on the Broncos had soured on Ralston, who they thought was aloof and ineffectual; a dozen players issued a statement after the 231 season expressing their lack of confidence in him.
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As rise of the parlors and the peep shows has empowered gangsters and corrupt cops, the pimps have turned into ineffectual middle men, glorified chauffeurs who are still demanding their nightly cut.
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Ryan et al are likewise telling us "there is no alternative" – to the bipartisan consensus on mass unskilled immigration, ineffectual interventionism, one-way globalism, bureaucratized unaffordable health care, and all the rest.
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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. 27.
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Having again reached my tolerance for feeling like an ineffectual idiot unable to buy a simple pair of gloves, I give up and walk home gloveless, my hands freezing in the wind.
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Some of those bills are well intentioned, says Schafer, but will be ineffectual, and some of them may just be empty shows of support for veterans offering little in the way of substance.
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The second volume features archival documents of rules and regulations from a range of public institutions in Communist Czechoslovakia with all the verbs obsessively removed, effectively turning these documents into totally ineffectual scripts.
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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.
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"The liberal establishment basically sucks up radical energy and directs it into ineffectual methods of change, such as … buying a T-shirt that says 'resist' on it and sending an email," Hallam said.
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Political reforms are mostly ineffectual, in part because they are often aimed at the balance of power between the straightforwardly wealthy and the politically powerful, rather than the lot of the have-nots.
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The only means a lot of gig workers have to register grievances are ineffectual customer support email addresses—which often connect them to equally poorly paid representatives around the world—and each other.
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Heavy government spending will insulate people for a while longer, but with little FDI, ineffectual economic reforms and the continuing decline in oil revenues, MBS financial comfort blanket will surely start to fray.
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Nor can I think of a reviewer less likely to be informative than one who refers to "the ineffectual senselessness of punishment" without the slightest nod to the specific deterrence effects of imprisonment.
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What Ty best captures is not the street cliché of feeling trapped but rather the feeling of being ineffectual, as if given too much time to think with no outlet for the effort.
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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.
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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.
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Frustration in Australia: Prime Minister Scott Morrison has faced bitter criticism over what many see as an ineffectual response to the country's wildfires and his dismissal of climate change as an exacerbating factor.
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Calling "Idiocracy" a documentary is one of those jokes about Donald Trump that was made constantly in the latter months of 22000 and now reeks of a certain strain of ineffectual liberal smugness.
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" This was clearly unconstitutional — the Russian constitution, ineffectual as it is usually is, explicitly bans denationalization — and prompted what Human Rights Watch's Russia director, Tanya Lokshina, described as a "a staggering media outcry.
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Israel, for its part, has long agreed with the Palestinian street: that Abbas is a feeble and ineffectual leader whose promises in the negotiation room could never actually influence anything on the ground.
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Bolton, after a speech condemning the International Criminal Court, said the judicial body's failure to act in response to earlier chemical weapons attacks was evidence that it was ineffectual in deterring war crimes.
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And his films certainly seem to offer some hints in that direction: They frequently fetishize service members and military hardware, and they tend to portray governments and bureaucracy as ineffectual, self-interested, and incompetent.
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" The Department of Defense not only acknowledges climate change, but warns that it could exacerbate "poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership and weak political institutions that threaten stability in a number of countries.
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But for many of his supporters and Black Lives Matter activists, this came off as ineffectual — they want him to convincingly speak to their passion and concerns about racial disparities in the justice system.
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"Monetary policy, I think, especially with the advent of negative interest rates in Japan and the ECB, has gone from really being ineffectual to harmful, " the chief investment strategist at Strategas Research Partners said.
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"There's been a series of brutal reviews calling Tillerson everything from an "unmitigated disaster" (Tufts' Daniel Drezner) to "quite possibly the most ineffectual secretary of state since America's rise to global prominence in 1898.
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But unless the regressive mind-set of those men undergoes a revolutionary transformation as well, the new laws will be ineffectual eyewash in the face of the misogyny that Pakistani women encounter every day.
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The generation ostensibly in power — the patriarch Arkel (the booming Franz-Josef Selig), and the gentle Geneviève (Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo), Pelléas and Golaud's mother and a kind of grown-old Mélisande — are ineffectual, inaccurate.
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Op-Ed Contributors WASHINGTON — President Trump's sanctions strategy against Venezuela remains committed but ineffectual, and banning a smallish band of regime loyalists from traveling to the United States will do little to change that.
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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.
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FEBRUARY 5 The first season of the writer/producer Simon Rich's fantastical sitcom "Miracle Workers" was set in a bureaucratic, ineffectual version of heaven, governed by a lazy, insecure God (played by Steve Buscemi).
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As for the guys, they're either ineffectual head-in-the-sand types like Neil and Luke (Maurice Jones), Linda's New Agey co-worker, or pompous and predatory, like Dave (John C. Vennema), Linda's boss.
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But that's not the only thing you need to understand about the Catalan drive to secede from Spain, which is expected to lead to a formal (if likely ineffectual) declaration of independence on Tuesday.
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The movie begins with a voice-over from one of its central characters, Helen Wayne, describing in excruciating detail her beloved dog's mange, and the seemingly dozens of ineffectual cures she has tried on it.
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She's a complicated figure, but in this first hour, Wendy's hyper-aggression so uncannily resembles her boss's that she's like Axe's surrogate at home, too, squashing Rhoades's ineffectual suggestion that she look for work elsewhere.
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Suicide is an impulse that passes quickly, and throwing up barriers that may seem on the outside to be symbolic or ineffectual are often all it takes to stop someone from taking their own life.
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It's fighting a €2.4 billion antitrust fine from the EU. It (along with the rest of tech) has been ineffectual in making a dent in the Trump administration's stance on both immigration and net neutrality.
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Druid plays a familiar troubled-teen character—Conrad's so obsessed with violent video games and ineffectual around classmates that it's understandable when Jonah asks him half-jokingly if he's going to shoot up his school.
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But that wouldn't count for much if he would likely turn into a murderous mad king like Aerys, a boozy absentee king like Robert, a cruel king like Joffrey or an ineffectual king like Tommen.
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The boys are not intimidated, because they assume Carrillo has to act within the limits of the justice system, which would be ineffectual against underaged kids, especially in a city essentially run by their employer.
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But what this obscures is just how ineffectual these senators have been over the past eleven months, even though a slim two-vote majority in the upper chamber gives them a great deal of power.
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He's so cautious and protected that some, like Winslow, suspect that El Chapo may have cut a deal with the Mexican government for his genteel and ineffectual re-arrest rather than misstepped for cinematic glory.
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And throughout, the South Korean government is painted as ineffectual, apathetic, and at the mercy of the Americans who maintain influence both through their presence at the military base and in South Korea's cultural hegemony.
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Helen McEwin, Adelaide Hills, South Australia I live every day in fear, in fear of wildfires destroying everything around me, in fear of the most dangerous and ineffectual prime minister Australia has had since Federation.
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And, amid suspicions that Russia is trying to destabilize the Continent by allying with the right, Europe's mainstream parties may be forced into awkward or ineffectual coalitions, to preserve their power and keep extremists out.
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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.
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The three countries agreed a so far ineffectual plan to wind down the fighting between the Syrian army, which is supported by Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, and jihadist fighters and Turkish-backed rebels.
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This helplessness recalls the 1930s when the League of Nations, the great hope for security co-operation in the aftermath of the first world war, proved ineffectual in the face of Japanese, German and Italian aggression.
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The reason he felt so ineffectual for much of the season — and indeed, moped about it on a few occasions — is that he did a bad job reading Daenerys's opinions and maximizing his influence over her.
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He'd become so ineffectual (and illogical) during last season, it's a pleasure seeing him revert to fight-or-flight, base instinct mode… and then demonstrate how much he's truly been broken by losing it on Joey.
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The 2016 investigation by BuzzFeed News and the BBC found that the Tennis Integrity Unit, set up in 203 to enforce fair play, had been ineffectual and secretive in dealing with the corruption plaguing the sport.
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"The proposed changes, at a minimum, would be ineffectual at achieving the DOL's stated goals and would result in an unconstitutional limitation on the media's First Amendment protected right to newsgathering and dissemination," the lawyers said.
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Modigliani's father, Flaminio, a bankrupt businessman 15 years older than his wife, was absent and otherwise ineffectual during much of Dedo's upbringing, while the Garsins taught him French and versed him in poetry, art, and culture.
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Screenplays with a message can be ineffectual without good planning and appropriate screenings, be it in schools, labor unions or regions rife with slavery, said Fred Lucio of ESPM Social, a consultancy promoting corporate social responsibility.
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We've seen security tech theater from China before, in the ineffectual and likely barely functioning AR displays for scanning nearby faces, but this is different — not a stunt but a major effort and correspondingly large failure.
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When citizens do not take a watchful stand – when they take their civil rights for granted – it allows opposing forces to render policies impotent and ineffectual, making it all the easier to justify their total annihilation.
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Editorial Since it began operations in 2002, the International Criminal Court has secured just four convictions, fueling the perception that it has been largely ineffectual as a tribunal of last resort for the world's worst criminals.
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Unfortunately, even if President Trump's approach to the summit seems to be a recipe for failure, the G-20 itself had already proved itself to be increasingly ineffectual well before Donald Trump came on the scene.
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Ellsberg said he views the leaks of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden to be on par with his own, and offered that while a leak may be ineffectual, it may still be worth the grave risk.
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Spraying insecticides to kill mosquitoes has had no evident effect on halting the spread of dengue fever, raising concerns that it may be equally ineffectual in checking the spread of the Zika virus, Dr. Kieny said.
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As her prospects dwindled, Warren increasingly turned her fire on Sanders, arguing that, for all their policy agreements, he was -- unlike her -- an ineffectual legislator with a short resume of accomplishments during three decades in Congress.
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Something that's not widely understood is that your cable bill is so high not because of the cable companies themselves (which serve as largely ineffectual middlemen) but because of those various rights packages I mentioned earlier.
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If the local organizations in your area are lethargic and ineffectual, then find one or two people to join you and, boom, you are a precinct committee, self-appointed to connect to voters in your neighborhood.
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His contact, Ellie (Grace Van Patten), desperate to escape from Pittsburgh, has taken on a job as the driver on this errand, at the behest of a very ineffectual low-level criminal played by Mike Birbiglia.
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Additionally, opposition parties, previously weak and ineffectual, have a much louder voice since being joined in Parliament by the Economic Freedom Fighters, a more radical party that has gained a large following among unemployed black youths.
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"Congress has shown themselves to be completely ineffectual at doing anything to rein that in; even when they have a majority in the House," he added, despite more and more Democrats pushing for Trump impeachment proceedings.
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By continually contradicting himself and not seeming to care, Trump generates confusion in the members of the media and political opposition that has often rendered them ineffectual, especially in speaking to those outside the liberal base.
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The Republican establishment proves helpless against the hijacking of the party, the mainstream media prove ineffectual against the tide of fake news and the political system proves vulnerable to the machinations of a sinister foreign government.
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THE salvoes of cruise missiles Bill Clinton launched in August 1998, against a suspected chemical-weapons factory in Sudan and an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, were considered by many American lawmakers to be ineffectual, or worse.
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But if you had stepped just outside the UN doors, you would have had to pick your way through the bodies of the dozens of dissenters playing dead on the sidewalk to protest the ineffectual climate agreement.
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The firm, China's answer to Alphabet Inc's Google, was at the centre of a national media outcry last year when a student with a fatal cancer blamed Baidu averts for directing him to suspect, ultimately ineffectual treatment.
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So much history focuses on his single, ineffectual term during which he was handcuffed by political division, faced a growing pro-Andrew Jackson sentiment, and found his abolitionist views on the losing side of the slavery argument.
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Instead of leading the way and encouraging democratic progress, they have grown divided and ineffectual on the world stage, unwilling to inspire and unable to develop a coherent, united policy to tackle many of these global challenges.
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Even if a new government is formed, new ministers have to be approved by the Parliament, which insists on nominating the same crop of ineffectual, corrupt former exiles who have been running the country into the ground.
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Lansdale returned for an ineffectual stint as an adviser from 1965-68, but for Mr Boot, overthrowing Diem was the critical mistake that ended any chance of a viable South Vietnam—one Lansdale would not have made.
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Also: Pycelle, Uncle Kevan, Lancel the twit and finally the tragically ineffectual Tommen, who in his poignant final moments finally embraced the reality we first understood when we saw him cavorting with Ser Pounce in Season 4.
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As a result, the world's largest U.N. peacekeeping mission has become virtually a permanent, ineffectual fixture, while the DRC military continues to be plagued by many corrupt officers and bloated by abusive and poorly integrated former rebels.
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There's plenty of grasping to contend with, especially after Holbrooke started making money in the private sector between Democratic administrations, working as a consultant to companies like Nike and landing cushy gigs as an (ineffectual) investment banker.
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Back on April 26 the mixed martial artist, Xu Xiaodong, nicknamed "Mad Dog," fought a different Tai Chi master, Wei Lei, after accusing Wei and other practitioners of traditional martial arts in China of peddling ineffectual nonsense.
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The cynical marketing calculation — Mr. Trump's favorite form of math — would seem to be that, as with previous administration outrages, the news media will grow weary, the public will grow numb, the Democratic inquisitors will appear ineffectual.
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The TurkStream project which stretches from Russia to Turkey, and estimated to cost around $12 billion, was also mentioned in the defense bill but the pipeline is set to launch early January so sanctions would be ineffectual.
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For rank and file Republicans, Trump is just as much a response to the ineffectual conservative intellectual establishment and the impotent, often dishonest, Republican elected class as he is to the Left's attempts to fundamentally change America.
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On top of everything else it would do to the Consumer Bureau, the Hensarling plan would greatly increase the likelihood of ineffectual gridlock by turning the CFPB from a director-led agency into a five-member commission.
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In it, the titular characters broker peace between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a Star Wars-like cantina — just to taunt the President of the United States for his ineffectual peace talks.
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Whether one thinks the Fed was the arch-villain behind the Great Recession, or a hapless accomplice, or merely an ineffectual would-be rescuer, we nonetheless have a decent mental model for how the next recession will start.
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While you can enable this in every modern-day browser, it's not a protocol that Facebook currently recognizes, so it's going to be largely ineffectual when it comes to stopping the social network from keeping tabs on you.
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Spammers were relatively free to ply their trade at that point, but the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 did lead to some legal consequences down the road — although CAN-SPAM has still been called overly lax and ineffectual.
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In the wake of the Trump administration's staggeringly ineffectual response to the territory's continuing humanitarian crisis, Giovannetti, like so many Puerto Ricans, is turning to an unfazed group of neighborhood volunteers to help him start all over again.
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Ubisoft's meticulous avoidance of the real world except for physical likeness was meant to maximize its market and avoid the type of "controversy" that brings furious tweets and ineffectual boycotts down on media that dare to make statements.
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And the Palestinian leadership itself is horribly divided and completely ineffectual, with the militant Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas ruling with an iron fist in Gaza and the corrupt and dysfunctional Palestinian Authority in charge of the West Bank.
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In 2014, Brandon Chamberlin, then a law student at Emory University in Atlanta, researched national hazing laws for an article in the school's law review and concluded that they were often weak and ineffectual, as well as misguided.
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It carried out a spate of ineffectual, but widespread bombings in 2005 and appears more recently to have allied itself with IS. In public the Bangladeshi government refuses to accept that IS has taken root in the country.
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This was an early salvo in what became round after round of ineffectual UN-linked diplomacy, while Syria descended into war and the death toll began its climb toward the current total of more than half a million.
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It's a record-breaking fine — but critics have argued that it is ultimately ineffectual, amounting to only a fraction of Facebook's annual profits, and it's not accompanied by any more fundamental structural changes to the company's business model.
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He said the injury had forced him to start hard in the final with the hope he could build an unbeatable lead by the time he got to the breaststroke leg, where the injury rendered his kick ineffectual.
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And tax reform has been cooked for months, as ObamaCare has been dying a slow death and Republican lawmakers in both the House and Senate continue to prove they are ineffectual at governing even with a numerical majority.
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After John Kelly became chief of staff on Monday—taking over from the comically ineffectual Reince Priebus—there were some signs that President Trump was maybe, just maybe, beginning to not act like a toddler all the time.
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Oh, and the very pluralism of the Democratic system, while it can make the party diffuse and ineffectual, means that there's nothing like the right's unchallengeable orthodoxy, which in turn means that sometimes analysis and evidence can matter.
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Recently, in a blistering roast by Sarah Ellison in Vanity Fair, Ms. Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, were cast as ineffectual dilettantes and Beltway laughingstocks, treating the nation like a vanity project, an ad campaign, a toy.
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When the Electoral College proved to be ineffectual, political party elders became the gatekeepers and effectively blocked popular candidates like Henry Ford (anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi) and George Wallace (pro-segregation), whom they deemed unqualified for the presidency.
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Not since 1861, when Abraham Lincoln entrusted the conduct of the Civil War to George McClellan, the ineffectual leader known as "Little Napoleon," has the balance of civil-military authority tilted so greatly in favor of the generals.
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The power to wage war on our enemies and to slap tariffs on our trading partners are but two examples of where the president has been given too much authority by an ineffectual and too internally conflicted Congress.
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As a result, right now his presidency is in danger of being very swiftly Carterized — ending up so unpopular, ineffectual and fractious that even with Congress controlled by its own party, it can't get anything of substance done.
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Vice President Biden was overseeing American policy toward Ukraine at the time, and he did push for the removal of the country's top prosecutor, who was seen as corrupt or ineffectual by the United States and Western European governments.
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He was way too slow and ineffectual on defense, whether he was not really protecting the rim (read: trying not to get dunked on) or switched out on the perimeter, where he floated around on skates made of farts.
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"Not only do we have a struggle with production and an ineffectual OPEC, non-OPEC production regime, but you have this overhang again that is not clearing, and so that is what this market is reacting to," he said.
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When a president appears weak and ineffectual in confronting an autocrat who seeks to destabilize the world's democracies, then the world in general becomes less respectful of freedom, liberty and the right of people to choose who governs them.
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Bayless passes out to a rolling Joel, streaking toward the hoop, Drummond makes an insanely ineffectual, vainglorious swipe at Joel, and lifts it just in time to avoid the foul and, ultimately, direct blame for his colossal fuck-up.
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Wednesday's last-minute change of plan may be a practical application of political machinery, but it also looks like tacit recognition that the battle-worn strategy of putting people on the streets is beginning to look tired and ineffectual.
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The denizens at Harry's bar — a sheeplike herd of enjoyably varied bleats — include an ineffectual policeman (David Lansbury), and three wilting barflies (Billy Carter, Richard Hollis and John Horton) who are drawn to the place by its owner's notoriety.
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These ineffectual measures would be punctuated by rage-fueled tweets aimed at Jerome Powell (for not pushing negative interest rates), Xi Jinping (for not having immediately surrendered to an inept trade warrior), and the media (for the usual stuff).
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Venezuela appears to be sliding toward a more volatile stage of unrest after anti-government forces looted weapons during a weekend raid on a military base and frustration over what some see as an ineffectual opposition leadership boils over.
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That senior Treasury Department officials view Neal and the Ways and Means Committee — historically perhaps the most powerful committee in all of Congress — as so ineffectual that they can blow off meetings and flat out refuse invitations is revelatory.
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"I've been advising them to not rely on the comfort of a shield of collective action through trade associations that have been largely ineffectual, speak their own mind[s] but do it with homework and preparation, showing grassroots legitimacy," he said.
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Amid reports in early 2017 that its workplace encouraged partying on the job and cutthroat competition among employees, Uber became a poster child for the kind of prized startup whose hard-charging, "unconventional" culture is enabled by an ineffectual HR department.
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If Mr Macron too has only one chance at reform, his focus should be on the joblessness that has robbed the French of hope and which feeds Ms Le Pen's arguments that citizens are being failed by a greedy, ineffectual elite.
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" But its best traits, she told Refinery219, are "its pace of life, which is much slower without becoming ineffectual, the wineries and affordable excellent dining options, the proximity to other travel destinations, the architecture and the creative energy of the city.
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As Mr. Erdogan seeks to eliminate all opposition and create a single-party regime, the European Union and the United States must cease their policy of appeasement and ineffectual disapproval and frankly inform him that this is a dead end.
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Inside the Anaheim Convention Center, players are clapping and watching teasers for Overwatch 2 and Diablo IV. Outside, others were donning Winnie the Pooh costumes—a cartoon character banned in China—and protesting Blizzard's ineffectual response to the controversy it created.
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After an early injury led to a stretch of stiff-legged, ineffectual play that caused plenty of consternation around these parts, Wilson's not just back to his old self; he's better—and the rest of the NFL is officially on notice.
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If the day-to-day part of your job is going smoothly, and it's ultimately your patience that's getting the best of you—and perhaps ineffectual goal-setting—try to see if being less impatient and rewriting those goals changes anything.
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Committing a terrorist act is an extreme and corrosive response to environmental abuse—and an ineffectual one, at that—but Reichardt keys into the youthful impulse to make a real, lasting impact on the world, however misguided it may be.
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What's also clear is how deeply ineffectual these guidelines are—not just for users, but for Facebook's army of moderators and the two billion Facebook users who rely on them to keep their feeds scrubbed of the most disturbing content.
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Still, after years of attempting to resolve harassment and discrimination complaints through ineffectual human-resources departments, or through lawsuits kept quiet by powerful attorneys, women have found a path that produces results: gathering an unimpeachable number of witnesses and going public.
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Branding liberals and peacemakers as ineffectual, rousing popular support to right old wrongs, real or imaginary, putting their part of the people first, last and always, means that the elections of this week are bad news for a strained world.
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The material supervised by Mr. Williams (who's esteemed for, among other things, his work on "Who Framed Roger Rabbit") was shaped into two subsequent features, one a well-meaning but ineffectual salvage job, the next an out-and-out bastardization.
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Here again Lowry acknowledges Trump's appeal, perhaps blotting out the subsequent point, in which he describes the President as a deeply flawed person, mostly ineffectual in convincing the public to back his allies and consistently self-defeating as a political actor.
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Veep Through nearly five seasons of "Veep," we've seen Selina Meyer suffer embarrassments galore and absorb loss after loss, to the point that some may wonder how anyone so gaffe-prone and ineffectual ever wound up in the Oval Office.
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The distraction of a costly, ineffectual and over-extended foreign policy is undoubtedly part of this decline, linked as it is to the expansion of an invasive surveillance state which tramples innocent Americans' privacy rights and undermines the rule of law.
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Putin believed that Russia had grown weak and ineffectual in the nineties, and during the first year of his Presidency he and a council of economic advisers carried out reforms meant to bolster the authority and the competency of the state.
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Responding to this question through the use of ineffectual capture technology is Italian artists Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti's Les Paradis, rapport annuel (or "The Heavens, Annual Report"), a superficial photographic culture jam developed undercover in tony offshore tax havens.
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Its government was as corrupt and ineffectual as any in the post-Soviet space; it produced neither oil nor gas to serve as a financial cushion, and it was divided between a Russian-leaning east and a Europe-leaning west.
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But advances in fishing technology, better understanding of fish behavior and even social media have changed the sport from a caricature of inactivity — a metaphor for blind, ineffectual waiting in subpar conditions — into an action-packed, fish-producing winter pastime.
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Though Mr. Trump ultimately put his assets into a so-called half-blind trust that Mr. Shaub has called ineffectual, the ethics office has worked closely and productively to steer the president's nominees through necessary financial disclosures and ethics agreements.
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And the danger some Democrats appear to fear of seeming naïve by clinging to a goal of bipartisan support for the court seems less acute than the certainty of their appearing ineffectual in a futile effort to block the Gorsuch appointment.
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Angry and frightened, Australians have been venting their frustration with Mr. Morrison over what they see as his nonchalant and ineffectual response to the disastrous blazes and his unwavering dismissal of the force that has made them so intense: climate change.
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Whatever their own issues, there is another we should confront -- one that may have prevented this apparently long-term disaster: As a society, we may be keeping to ourselves a little too much, judging others -- but from an ineffectual distance.
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For months, critics like Corker, Flake and Kasich have complained about Trump's direction without employing any of the tools they have available to impose consequences for it; in Cooper's formulation they have looked far more like ineffectual priests than indomitable warriors.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela appears to be sliding toward a more volatile stage of unrest after anti-government forces looted weapons during a weekend raid on a military base and frustration over what some see as an ineffectual opposition leadership boils over.
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Comprehensive background checks sure sound good, but this would only mean tweaks to a completely broken system, and that would be the ineffectual proposal the NRA supports -- not more sweeping criminal background checks of all individuals applying for gun ownership.
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And citizenship for those who reside here must be a stand-alone cause, unencumbered by compromises that are not only distasteful but also politically ineffectual — and that today would provoke opposition from the nativist right and the grass-roots left.
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The man who many saw as weak and ineffectual when he took over in 2014 from a predecessor who was blamed for the Islamic State takeover now heads towards an election next year as the commander who freed Iraqi lands.
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The biographer is unflinching in describing Nixon's amorality during Watergate, his self-destructive tendencies, his vile foreign record (not only the bombing campaign in Laos and Cambodia but his ineffectual response to the genocide in what was then East Pakistan).
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Plumlee, who sincerely stumbles, now finds himself under and behind DeMarcus as he rises up and flushes a big two-hander over him and Trey Lyles, who has rotated over and provides an ineffectual swipe at the most guaranteed two points imaginable.
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The men in the film, including a prime minister who insists on carrying around his pet duck ("the fastest duck in London"), and a powdered courtier who insists women want their men to be "pretty", are at best ineffectual and at worst monstrous.
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When he understands that nothing will come of the cease-fires, and that the city's defensive forces are ineffectual, then legends rise up about the appearance of some great foreign power that will bypass the logic of the siege and bring justice.
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Set off by criticism from Senator Elizabeth Warren, the discussion has often focused on the system's real but minor bias toward small states, and the system's intended (by the founders) but now entirely ineffectual role in preventing the "tyranny" of direct democracy.
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To wit: in the two regular-season meetings between the teams this year, attempts by Cleveland to gain an advantage by getting Love the ball in the post versus Green were completely ineffectual, while on the other end ... well, it wasn't ideal.
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With a shaky 2018 midterm coming up for the GOP, and top donors threatening to cut off a party that they are finding ineffectual, it's unlikely that Republican politicians will be willing to risk the wrath of the NRA or their constituents.
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It is wearying to see yet another film like this in which women mostly exist either to say clueless and ineffectual things (in this one, that character is played by Catherine Keener) or to be collateral damage in the machinations of violent men.
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Sure, some of them might get to cut ahead in that line with their $1000 first class ticket to Toledo, but you gave $85 to a routinely ineffectual government agency to skip straight past the worst of the security theater and get to your gate.
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She added: I felt the West's response to the crisis was short-sighted and ineffectual, and was highly related to the problematic rise of overly conservative us-vs-them (white Western Christian vs brown Eastern Muslim) rhetoric in the increasingly divisive socio-political landscape.
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Though the movie is examining a very real social ill — and pulling no punches in its critiques of ineffectual politicians and macho idiocy — Chi-Raq's style is very theatrical, with rhyming dialogue and frequent musical numbers performed by stars like Nick Cannon and Jennifer Hudson.
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But the term "cuckold lifestyle" conjured up the Chaucer I had read as a student — stories such as "The Miller's Tale" and "The Merchant's Tale," in which younger women have sex right under the noses of their unsuspecting older and ineffectual in every sense husbands.
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The whole thing, in fact, felt outsourced to the Republican National Committee—if to be sure, the RNC's B-team, for the main difference with conventions past was more ineffectual staging: no way, for instance, they intended for the thing to end near midnight. Chaos!
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And so thankfully, aside from being wrong as a matter of law, the new Resolution is also ultimately, completely ineffectual, because despite what people might think, the resolution was merely the expression of a political opinion, and not, in any way, binding international law.
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But the morass left by that unforced error, along with the West's ineffectual response to the Arab spring, have convinced all but a conspiracy-addled fringe that there is not much substance to talk of Western omnipotence, American hegemony or even a Zionist conspiracy.
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The cast of characters shifts between too many points of view: as well as those of Abe Auer and Ana Beidler, we see events from the perspective of Shmuel Spiro, a radical Jewish activist, and the ineffectual rabbi Max Hoffman, along with Abe's daughter, Judith.
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Worthwhile reforms like automatic voter registration (now limited to Vermont, Oregon, California and West Virginia), online voting, and voting on weekends or a special national holiday instead of on Tuesdays would not necessarily increase voter turnout much, if many continue to see voting as ineffectual.
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"Central government efforts to address excessive production capacity have been ineffectual due to regional protectionism, weak regulatory enforcement, low resource pricing, misdirected investment, inadequate protection of intellectual property rights and an emphasis on market share," the chamber said in a report released this week.
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The words of the ineffectual Warden Caputo (Nick Sandow), "This place crushes anything good," come true, as the most reluctant participant in the prisoners' fateful antagonism ends up suffocated by Litchfield's meekest guard, Bayley (Alan Aisenberg), and the most vicious — for now, at least — prosper.
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But after a series of ostensibly high-stakes missions turned into dull processionals through waves of ineffectual enemies—even an enemy attack helicopter proved to be little more than an annoyance—I realized it had been hours since anything genuinely suspenseful or novel had happened.
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He reacts more than he acts, and even when tries to make decisive moves — like suing Shawshank, or planning to return to Texas with his mom — unexpected circumstances and external resistance keep getting his way, rendering him ineffectual, and leaving him rooted in the Rock.
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We've published columns on all sorts of ineffectual things: fatbergs, squirrels, ear candling, bogs, acupuncture, even something called "the Useless Machine" — a box with a switch that, when you turn it on, opens, releasing a small "fingerlike projection" that flips the switch off again.
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Yet so far, despite the White House's sharp rhetoric about how North Korea will not be allowed to continue its nuclear program and how China must bring North Korea in line, Mr. Trump's policy appears to be as ineffectual as those of his predecessors.
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Annually, this adds up to approximately $14 billion, meaning we pour the same amount of money into ineffectual and often unnecessary pretrial incarceration every year as the total amount the Department of Justice has invested to advance community policing in the past 85033 years.
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A game of chicken has ensued, as the president has pretty well held his following in the country against the frenzied assault of his massed media enemies, while three-quarters of Americans despise the Congress as tainted and ineffectual windbags wallowing in the public trough.
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And after years of retrenchment, unenforced redlines, and ineffectual — and in the case of the JCPOA, unsigned and ungratified — nuclear deals, what the United States needs to prove is its resolve to do what is necessary to prevent rogue states from expanding their nuclear programs.
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He may or may not betray Cersei and join the ranks of the angels (and the weak, ineffectual "no" he gives her when she jumps him in this episode suggests to me that he won't), but the show has long been working toward making him more sympathetic.
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A. Mr. Cameron has pledged to hold a referendum by 2017, but one reason he is pushing to hold a vote sooner is believed to be a fear that the migration crisis will intensify during the summer, making the European Union look ineffectual and membership less attractive.
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But the morass left by America's spectacularly inept occupation of Iraq, along with the West's ineffectual response to the Arab spring, have convinced all but a conspiracy-addled fringe that there is not much substance to talk of Western omnipotence, American hegemony or even a Zionist conspiracy.
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Congress occasionally debates debt levels and imposes a limit, but that is an ineffectual gesture because borrowing needs are driven by past budgetary decisions rather than the imposition of an after the fact debt ceiling, which is now suspended but slated to be reimposed next month.
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In a move designed to upgrade a conspicuously ineffectual backcourt, the Knicks completed a blockbuster deal with the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday and acquired point guard Derrick Rose, who won the Most Valuable Player Award in 2011 before struggling with a string of serious knee injuries.
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And in a real-time illustration of just how ineffectual this rhetorical mopping-up operation was, YouTube was forced to pull the plug on its comments system, which became overrun with vicious hate speech ... as congressional investigators addressed the malignant spread of racialized hate speech on YouTube.
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Vast deserts cover most of the northern half of China, with little more than the Great Wall serving to shield ancestral Han lands near the Yellow River, though it often proved ineffectual against the foreign tribes that swept down into the area with conquest on their minds.
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For all the talk of his being an ineffectual party leader, Mr Corbyn has done a very good job of taking over the party's executive committee and putting in place automatic "trigger ballots" which will allow activists to eject MPs who don't toe the Corbyn line.
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The impasse is particularly remarkable given that even some immigration hard-liners do not regard the wall as their highest priority and fear that Mr. Trump's preoccupation with it will prompt him to cut a deal that trades a relatively ineffectual measure for major concessions on immigration.
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Parents of a New Jersey sixth grader who killed herself last year after months of bullying sued school officials this week, stating that the school failed to take their repeated complaints seriously and instead sought ineffectual solutions like asking the 12-year-old to hug her bullies.
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Up to that point, Shaw has been busy exposing us to two breeds of ineffectual English elites, circa 1914: the cultured but idle bohemian class, represented by Hesione Hushabye (partly based on Virginia Woolf), and the horsy, empty-headed aristocracy represented by her sister, Lady Utterword.
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In this, as in many other matters relating to trade policy, the Trump administration's views are contrary to conventional wisdom, which has long held that GATT dispute settlement was ineffectual because a losing party could block decisions from going into effect, rendering them advisory in nature.
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Breaches and compromised credentials are always a major wake-up call, but many cybersecurity experts hoped this particular breach would have a more lasting effect: prompting Congress and the President to finally fix the country's confusing and ineffectual data security laws and get serious about national cybersecurity.
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Then I summoned Louie, played by Danny DeVito, the abusive dispatcher, and considered how much easier our search would be if we were interacting with Louie, how much more humane—or at least human—his nastiness was than this Kafkaesque chain of politely ineffectual customer reps.
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If it doesn't look like they're putting their act together on something like taxes ... if they look that ineffectual as we get into September, then it's gonna be a problem," UBS' director of floor operations at the New York Stock Exchange said on "Squawk on the Street.
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Against the backdrop of an ascendant Japanese economy and consistent with President Reagan's disdain for public education (and teachers' unions), "A Nation at Risk" blamed America's ineffectual schools for a "rising tide of mediocrity" that was diminishing America's global role in a new high-tech world.
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Advocates for victims and church critics say that the Vatican has been largely ineffectual in addressing the issue, and the persistence of scandals throughout the world — cases emerged last year in Chile, Germany, the United States and other countries — continue to threaten the credibility of the church.
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After running a campaign built on ineffectual scaremongering, ill-judged identity politics, desperate attempts to link Khan to violent terrorism and the pretence of liking Bollywood films, Goldsmith has now, at last, found a tactic by which he can overcome Khan's dangerous brand of unexceptional decency.
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Chandler is best as the paternal figure in dramas (most notably, Coach Eric Taylor in the TV series Friday Night Lights) rather than as a bumbling officer who seems to be constantly perspiring and is ineffectual in his comedic riffs on being a failed leader of men.
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Tudyk, as ever, is clearly having the time of his life playing an ineffectual jerk who's only out for himself, and his zany negativity (he's more than prepared to fail up in order to leave Charm City for good) is the perfect counterpoint to Emily's almost palpable hopefulness.
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"Lagarde need both to try and quell dissent within the ECB over the September easing move and encourage governments to loosen fiscal policy, rather than rely on monetary policy, which is increasingly ineffectual, to do all the work stimulating growth," said Rupert Thompson, head of research at Kingswood.
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This time, Jenny Slate plays a young woman living in the '90s (hammered home via a constant stream of EXTREMELY NINETIES props and references) who's grown bored of her whiny, ineffectual fiancée (Jay Duplass) and whose parents (John Turturro and Edie Falco) are having their own marital meltdown.
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I'm curious because given how recalcitrant manufacturers and carriers have been about updating Android and given how ineffectual Google has been at forcing them to do so, selling more Nexus phones looks like the only way Google has left to reliably get people on its latest Android operating system.
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That game, of course, was probably the worst moment of Darvish's career: a disastrous five-out, five-earned run outing that, in combination with a profoundly ineffectual showing from the Dodgers lineup, put the nail in the coffin of the Dodgers' hopes of their first title since 22.
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But its staff largely failed at keeping the algorithm from targeting completely benign posts, artists got censored, and pornbots continued to plague the site; the prohibition was an ineffectual disaster, and Tumblr lost 30 percent of its user base in the six months after the ban took effect.
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Ineffectual or wounded men unfit for military service, a tough cop in love with the image of a dead woman he has never met, the miraculous return of a person marked missing in action: Otto Preminger's first hit film, "Laura," from 1944, is steeped in grief and mourning.
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In my own country, we would not be facing the current humiliating agony of Brexit if former Prime Minister David Cameron had not decided to hold a referendum on British membership in the European Union, or if his successor, Theresa May, had not proved such an ineffectual leader.
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What will be interesting to see in the weeks to come is whether an actual system set up in opposition to Gilead has the chance to take it down where individuals can't — or whether the government that Gilead defeated once before will be too weak and ineffectual to get anything done.
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"This report is clearly a step forward, yet our national nightmare due to an ineffectual Lead and Copper Rule will be recurring for some time to come," Marc Edwards, a professor of civil engineering at Virginia Tech who raised the alarm on the water contamination in Flint, told BuzzFeed News.
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Here's how it could backfire: In her book, "The Power of an Apology," psychotherapist Beverly Engel says over-apologizing isn't so different from over-complimenting: You may think you're displaying yourself as a nice and caring person, but you're actually sending the message that you lack confidence and are ineffectual.
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Iraqi officials who traveled to Tehran told the American envoy that Iran was open to talking, and there was an occasion in 2006 during which American and Iranian policies appeared to overlap, Mr. Khalilzad asserts: Both countries concluded that the ineffectual Ibrahim al-Jaafari needed to be replaced as prime minister.
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This was back during the golden years of ineffectual demonstration, and I think some of these people, if they didn't go out to the streets and rage at whatever it is they refused to believe their country had become, would probably have suffered aneurysms or grown a gut full of ulcers.
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That ought to be surprising, given that David Cameron's government blew up after losing its Brexit referendum in June, to be replaced by one led by Theresa May, who seems to have no coherent plan for how to leave the EU. Yet Mr Corbyn is too ineffectual a leader to benefit from this.
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TV on Monday that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's base will never view him as ineffectual on the issue of border security.
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In the wake of the Ferguson protests and amid the rise of Black Lives Matter, Riley, in an interview with "Democracy Now!" disputed the notion that "all you need to do is get your voice in the streets and things will change," describing mere attempts to "shame power into action" as ineffectual.
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The government said over the weekend that it was calling up about 3,000 army reservists, along with aircraft and naval ships — its largest military deployment since World War II. But many Australians are angry over what they see as a nonchalant and ineffectual response to the blazes by Scott Morrison, the prime minister.
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Vignettes that show Lee in 1966 at the novel's opening and 1974 at its close are bizarre and ineffectual, not to mention selective about Miller's actual circumstances: Her son, Antony, is nowhere to be seen; her marriage to Roland Penrose is written off as a "mistake" with no explanation as to why.
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The father figure in these tales is either utterly ineffectual in the face of the mother's abuse or, in a story like the Perrault fairy tale Donkeyskin — a story in the Cinderella vein, which sees its heroine fleeing from her father after he proposes marriage to her — becomes a sexual threat to his daughter.
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It didn't hurt that her journey from victim to self-possessed vengeance seeker is a familiar narrative trope, but the show's themes of actualization and empowerment nevertheless feel timely: the primary characters leading the charge for recognition are women, and their enemies are often sputtering, ineffectual men that see the hosts as objects and toys.
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Under the rule of an ineffectual king, played by David Tennant (a company veteran before his television fame in "Doctor Who"), Britain is descending into disorder as the cycle begins in "Richard II." The first scene finds Richard diffidently presiding over a bitter conflict between Henry Bolingbroke (Jasper Britton) and Thomas Mowbray (Christopher Middleton).
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For those persons whose property and interests in property are affected by this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, I find that because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures taken pursuant to this order would render those measures ineffectual.
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But along the way, the saffron scales seem to fall from his eyes as he describes the rise of Hindu nationalism, with its anti-Muslim violence, and the failure of liberal Hinduism to apply more than an ineffectual Band-Aid to the deep, septic wound of the people once called Untouchables, now known as Dalits.
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All the while activating his opponents at a unique level of intensity, with follow-on effects for all Rs From his debut on the national stage at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Obama seemed to speak a new language, one of apolitical hope and nonpartisan ideals, and the promise of change to an ineffectual status quo.
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When a student suddenly regresses, claiming they can't complete skills I know they have mastered, or when a child suddenly loses the ability to do the laundry, say, flailing his boneless, ineffectual arms about as he jabs at buttons on the washing machine, wailing all the while that he can't possibly do laundry; it's too hard.
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His old foe, Larry Holmes had shown Tyson to be easily frustrated and flummoxed in the periods in which he applied the old Ali style clinch, holding the back of Tyson's head with one hand and his triceps with the other, but Spinks was not Holmes or Ali, he was largely ineffectual with his tie ups.
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" Calling the commander in chief an "egomaniac" with "questionable business ethics" and "a crude moral compass," Milano says, "I never thought I'd be nostalgic for the days when Donald Trump was nothing but an ineffectual gasbag whose sole purpose for existing was to remind me of how much I like Rosie O'Donnell, but here we are.
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Dudley plays right into the troll, scrambling up off the court, looking around for the ball, picking it up, heaving it at O'Neal, and staring at him with his butter knife-dull eyes, all ineffectual rage and no drive to actually try to tangle with fucking prime Shaq, probably the most terrifying physical presence of the 21st century.
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Mr. Obama's most ardent black fans ignore how he often failed to speak about race or use his powers to convene commissions or issue executive orders to lessen black suffering; his nastiest black critics lambast him as an ineffectual leader who has done little to protect blacks from racial assault or lift them from economic misery.
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"If we find ourselves leading from frustration to escalation and end up short of a war with China but embroiled deeper in fighting in Vietnam over the next few months," Humphrey warned, "political opposition will steadily mount," because Americans had not been persuaded that a major war on behalf of an ineffectual Saigon government was justified.
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Still, the world's diplomatic meanderings — from the ineffectual call in Toronto for a reduction in emissions to the summit meeting in Paris, where each country was allowed simply to pledge whatever it could to the global effort — suggest that the diplomats, policymakers and environmentalists trying to slow climate change still cannot cope with its unforgiving math.
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In time, I would acquaint myself with the Civil War-era sisters growing up in genteel poverty in Louisa May Alcott's 19903-69 "Little Women" (after Beth dies, there are three); and after that, the many geometries of women, sisters and friends, as well as meddling aunts and ineffectual mothers, in the 19th-century novels of Jane Austen.
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Speaking at the Center for a New American Security, Warner advanced the idea that America's cybersecurity is on the whole ineffectual; that its response to foreign adversaries is either too weak or too slow to matter; and that its vulnerabilities, in addition to past failures, are largely the result of existing in a state of complacency and overconfidence for decades.
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That story is at its best when it drops its largely ineffectual true crime trappings and focuses on the much broader story at its heart: the social context of a nation full of women who have largely been abandoned by the system put in place to protect them — or, at the very least, give them justice after it's failed to keep them safe.
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That order was seen by many as weak and ineffectual, in part because it only refers to "speech" on moral or political issues "from a religious perspective": something that churches and other organizations are already allowed to engage in without falling afoul of the Johnson Amendment rules, which instead focus on speech and financial contributions that directly intervene in political campaigns.
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The reader is carried along on the twists and turns of the inquest, from the basics (the date, the beach, the rental house) to Beard's ineffectual research (he loses his map, interrupts during interviews) to the profound (the discovery of a lost story), so that the book is not only a memoir but a chronicle of how lost memories can be recovered.
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Trump may have joined Republicans in their flamethrower criticism of the Obama presidency, but his focus was rarely on policy, or what some considered tyrannical expansions of executive power; he saw Obama as weak and ineffectual, tweeting that it was "almost like the United States has no president" and telling a biographer that the "natural ability" for success was missing from Obama's DNA.
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Inspired by an encounter the artist had with an 80-year-old man throwing away a stack of X-rated VHS tapes, this account of a perverted, yet ineffectual father figure, rendered in bright colors and naïve design, could be read as a metaphor for Hong Kong and its precarious, often humiliating relationship with the alluring yet authoritarian power of China.
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And if Trump goes down in flames in a big scandal, whether it's Russia or something else, if his popularity continues to decline, if he's seen as ineffectual — well, Trump's got three years left before he has to worry about reelection, but most of the Republicans on the Hill are up next year, and they'll take the brunt of a lot of that.
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She is inviting Sanders to offer the argument that he knows — and she knows, and every journalist who follows internecine Democratic Party debates knows — many of his earliest and most fervent supporters believe: The Dodd-Frank bill is a hopelessly compromised and ineffectual piece of legislation that passed precisely because the Obama administration and many other senior Democrats are financially and intellectually captured by Wall Street.
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In the longer term, lax regulation could help contribute to a new financial crisis — just like it did the last time Warsh was a bank regulator — and then Warsh's ideas at the helm would mean an even slower and more ineffectual policy response than we saw last time around, inflicting untold suffering on tens of millions of Americans and possibly many more than that around the world.
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But Mr. Reyes added that the house's half-dozen fright scenarios are less about the failures of political leaders and more about systems at work in the world economy — the military complex, the financial industry, the gun industry, the fast-food industry and Big Pharma, just to name some headliners — that have become so vast they seem to govern themselves, rendering political control almost ineffectual.
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How can it be the case that poems are ineffectual and self-absorbed ephemera when the Presidential election produced a Trump bump in the poetry world, when hundreds of people submit poems to a newspaper contest, when dozens of poetry anthologies are in print, and when a book-length poem sells two hundred thousand copies, a number reached by very few works of prose?
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This may seem too soft for some political scientists, but when the facts are out there on every front — whether it's ineffectual foreign interventions, disastrous climate impacts, or the rapid return of unregulated subprime lending, all of which prey on poor populations and adds insult to injury — and yet we fail to inform and reform our policy, then a new mass social movement is needed.
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That's the basic reality Democrats need to get through their heads when thinking about the politics of a legislative compromise with Trump — he will lie about Democrats regardless of what they do, those lies will be echoed and amplified by Fox News and Sinclair Broadcast stations and Rush Limbaugh, and the mainstream press will be at best ineffectual in pushing back and in most cases will simply pass on the lies.
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Trying to teach nuanced critical thinking when there may be a more basic lack of education that's contributing to fomenting mistrust and driving credulity, as well as causing the spread of malicious fakes and rumors targeting certain people or segments of the population in the first place, risks both being ineffectual and coming across as merely irresponsible fiddling around the edges of a grave problem that's claimed multiple lives already.
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It depicts a petit bourgeois household: Georges (Marcel André) an ineffectual patriarch and would-be inventor; Yvonne (Yvonne de Bray) a diabetic who is introduced passed out in front of a sink, having botched her insulin injection; Léo (Gabrielle Dorziat), Yvonne's sister and a former lover of Georges, who appears to possess the family's only income; and finally Michel (Jean Marais), the son, in his 20s, whom Yvonne dotes on.
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When one of Dustin's patients, a police officer on medical leave, begins investigating the seemingly accidental drowning deaths of a series of drunken college men, Dustin is unwittingly reeled into the drama, grateful for the distraction from his own realities: his wife's terminal cancer; his ineffectual status as a husband and father; the probability of losing his rapidly maturing sons, Dennis and Aaron, to whatever baleful destinies they choose.
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Maybe after President Obama's ineffectual eloquence — race relations deteriorated despite his impressive oratory on the subject — and President TrumpDonald John TrumpStates slashed 4,400 environmental agency jobs in past decade: study Biden hammers Trump over video of world leaders mocking him Iran building hidden arsenal of short-range ballistic missiles in Iraq: report MORE's constant turmoil, Bloomberg's undramatic, "steady Eddie," get-things-done character may be just what Americans yearn for.
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Peña Nieto's deployment of troops to towns and cities to effectively replace the corrupt and ineffectual local police forces had initially looked promising, with homicides dropping in his first year of office in 2012, but the victory didn't last: Homicides have returned to previous levels, and high-profile incidents like the murder of 34 students in Ayotzinapa in 2014 (and the government's failure to investigate) have undermined citizens' faith in the rule of law.
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President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE's decision to unilaterally ban oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean and parts of the Atlantic—a decision that can and likely will be revoked by the next Administration—just further cements his legacy as the most ineffectual President in decades.
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Democrats, who lost the White House and made only nominal gains in the House and Senate, face a profound decision after last week's stunning defeat: Make common cause where they can with Mr. Trump to try to win back the white, working-class voters he took from them, or resist at every turn, trying to rally their disparate coalition in hopes that discontent with an ineffectual new president will benefit them in 2018.
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The BFG started out as a bedtime story for Dahl's granddaughter Sophie, which explains a lot of the content: the protagonist is a bossy, fearless little girl named Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) who's kidnapped from her bed one night by a gangly giant (Bridge Of Spies' Mark Rylance, heavily digitally altered to expand his ears, nose, neck, and hands.) Sophie is a quintessential Dahl heroine, wise beyond her years and more capable than the ineffectual adults around her.
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