"Books have been fairly well mangled by ineffective narrators," Mr. Straub said.
And again this is an area hampered by ineffective means of expression.
Mr. Dodd's good instincts are often compromised by ineffective follow-through.
Mr. Will, now on death row, said that he is innocent, but that he has been represented by ineffective lawyers.
They argue that if his prescriptions had any link to the problems there, it was because they were misinterpreted by ineffective commanders in a chaotic environment.
Pitchers unlucky enough to be followed by ineffective relievers, as the Yankees' Randy Johnson was in 2005, have unfairly high E.R.A.'s.
It is not only possible, but likely that well-intentioned goals may be thwarted by ineffective executions or regulations that bring unintended consequences.
"It is unacceptable that lives are being put at risk by ineffective legislation and control of internet trade in potentially lethal products," Mr Dobbin said.
This publicly funded economic development agency has been hampered by ineffective leadership and political infighting among Albany, City Hall and the Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel, all of whom must approve every project that goes forward.
I spent many days in its little shops, which were heated by ineffective electric heaters and crowded with towers of unclassified books; everyone from the shop assistant to the owner, the casual visitor to the bona fide customer, looked poor.
Efforts to certify the first 10 teams by April 2000 were frustrated by inadequate guidance and training and by ineffective or potentially unsafe equipment, the inspector general wrote in an audit report to be released this week.
