Sentence examples for Ineffective action from inspiring English sources

Concerns that Haiti's fragile democracy must not be knocked off course have to be weighed against the human tragedy that will result from ineffective action.

In December 1838, after years of debate and ineffective action, the emperor appointed Lin Zexu as commissioner in Canton with instructions to stamp it out.

When I visited Wieseltier at his office, in Washington, he excoriated the President for an hour, calling him a "coldhearted realist" who deploys "high moral language followed by inaction, or grudging action, or ineffective action," thus emboldening Vladimir Putin and Assad.

Heavily outgunned, the German force attempted to flee and then fought a desperate and ineffective action against the British force.

The Kremlin has cast its intervention in Syria, its biggest in the Middle East since the 1991 Soviet collapse, as a common sense move designed to roll back "international terrorism" in the face of what it says is ineffective action from Washington.

The ineffective action of antihistamines for pruritus in psoriasis might be explained by the fact that various pruritic mediators, separately or combined with histamine, play a role in the mechanism of pruritus in psoriasis vulgaris.

Experts were much more likely to choose the negative feedback — about ineffective actions — than novices.

In Experiment 1, 15-month-olds imitated effective and ineffective actions on two similarly designed toys.

The lack of a proper definition of the problem hinders the design of prevention strategies, often leading to implementation of inappropriate and ineffective actions.

Its report said that because of "the pilot's ineffective actions and his failure to anticipate and correct for these conditions, he was unable to recover".

Thorndike found that the cats improved their reaction time by ignoring the ineffective actions and performing the useful ones.