Thus, a physically ineffective action comes to be used communicatively to attain the goal for which the whole performance was originally used (Tomasello and Call 2007, pp. 5 6).
Heavily outgunned, the German force attempted to flee and then fought a desperate and ineffective action against the British force.
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.
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.
Broad generalizations about woodfuel use and availability at the regional, national and even subnational levels still commonly lead to biased assumptions and consequently to poor planning and ineffective action.
Outcome is a much better word (which BTW is why we have named our company Xtraordinary Outcomes), because built into it is the accepted fact that a good outcome is preceded by effective actions and a bad outcome is preceded by ineffective actions.
The inability to recognize the severity or understand transmission patterns of respiratory illness is a concern because when viral respiratory infections occurs within a community people may not respond or may take ineffective actions to reduce person-to-person spread of the viruses.
Experts were much more likely to choose the negative feedback — about ineffective actions — than novices.
