Sentence examples for and ineffective as a from inspiring English sources

She also called him "feckless, vain, and ineffective as a modern European leader".

The biographer, Robert Wesser, concluded that Hughes was insecure as a politician and ineffective as a party reformer.

Robert Wesser, who wrote "Charles Evans Hughes: Politics and Reform in New York, 1905-1910" (Cornell University Press, 1967), concluded that he was insecure as a politician and ineffective as a party reformer.

For several years the police tried and failed to control the vandals by occasionally hiding in the building and running out to arrest them - "both expensive and ineffective" as a Home Office report later concluded.

Preparing President Obama for a meeting with Mr. Berlusconi in June 2009, Elizabeth Dibble, the deputy chief of mission at the United States Embassy in Rome, warned that some in the American government regarded the Italian leader as "feckless, vain and ineffective as a modern European leader".

Thus, conventional plating methods to detect this organism are generally very time consuming and ineffective as a quality control strategy (Luo et al., 2004; Lin et al., 2005).

They system should be designed to weed out the weak and ineffective as soon as possible.

It will likely be as insubstantial and ineffective as Brandis and Turnbull's anxious presser.

Industry associations nevertheless slammed the decision as expensive and ineffective, as the stamps would be easy to forge.

I am adamantly opposed to the death penalty under any circumstances, believing it to be an immoral act of revenge and completely ineffective as a deterrent to heinous crimes.

But Gilmar is more of an attacking midfielder, and he proved ineffective as well.