Sentence examples for be a very ineffective from inspiring English sources

Last night Barnaby Lennon, the chairman of the Independent Schools Council said that the stripping of business rate relief would be "a very ineffective tool to improve social mobility in any meaningful way".

Fifty years of research has underscored the conclusion that swapping written messages is a very ineffective way to generate cooperation in conflict situations.

As Orr also argues, the extension of right to buy will reduce housing associations' ability to invest in new housing and it is "a very ineffective way to support the aspiration that many have to become home owners".

What we're going to do is bring a picture of Bob Dornan that the district is not aware of--that he's a very ineffective legislator who's mired in the politics of hatred and intolerance". People have said that before about Dornan (see: Republican Primary, 1992), but it hasn't worked.

But people are weighing the cost … and realizing that the death penalty is a very ineffective way to keep the public safe, especially for the money". Supporters of capital punishment say it should remain an option for those convicted of heinous crimes and that the expense problem could be resolved through reform.

First, a more fundamental critique of growth as a route to poverty reduction, which stands on its own apart from issues of trade policy, arises from calculations by the New Economics Foundation showing that growth is a very ineffective way of reducing poverty.

This is a very ineffective technique.

Townsend sees a larger pattern at work in the military's efforts to suppress nature without studying or understanding it: "Destroying nests and chasing away all types of bird (even small) seems to me to be a very unnecessary and ineffective way to tackle the small risk to a military aircraft of a bird strike.

A spoon is just a very ineffective fork with a single blunted tine.

Past experience of European countries, especially The Netherlands, which intentionally or unintentionally used this logic to turn their long-term disability programs into more general unemployment programs, suggests that it can be a very expensive and ultimately ineffective policy decision.

He told the committee: "The PCC is an old boys' club and it's certainly been very ineffective.