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"And I think they have learned that that is a largely ineffective approach; it's more like torture".

With the Alliance in disarray, Mr. Day has become a largely ineffective critic, and three smaller parties in Parliament do not have the standing to raise serious objections.

He would like, he said, to see the return of "stop and frisk", a largely ineffective, racist and unconstitutional method of policing.

Such ideas have been mooted for years by the Arab League, a largely ineffective club, but such Saudi leadership has never looked particularly plausible.

One proposal on Capitol Hill in particular, the idea for a national do-not-spam registry that would be similar to the do-not-call list for telemarketers, is likely to be "a largely ineffective" solution, Mr. Muris said.

The shopkeeper, Verloc, an agent provocateur and member of a largely ineffective anarchist group, is instructed by his Russian handler to bomb the Greenwich Observatory to provoke the British government into cracking down on anarchism.

They argue that the United States is being drawn into a lengthy, largely ineffective, bombing campaign that will fail to dislodge the Taliban.

With the lines drawn, then, a protracted battle followed as Parliament adopted a flurry of largely ineffective laws -- no fewer than eight in 22 years -- designed either to suppress gin consumption or to extract as much money as possible from it.

From 1843 to 1859 the U.S. Navy stationed the Africa Squadron, a fleet of largely ineffective sailing vessels meant to intercept American slavers, at Cape Verde and along the Guinea coast.

Much of the increase is driven by a surge in largely ineffective mortar artillery attacks along the border with Pakistan, said Maj. Gen. John C. Campbell, the commander of U.S. troops in the area.

Despite support for McCain and Udall's proposed amendment to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, it remains to this day a gutted and largely ineffective law.