Sentence examples for close to ineffective from inspiring English sources

After being close to ineffective the entire game, Mickael Pietrus made two rebounds and drew the final foul on LeBron to become one of the game's hidden heroes.

The ugly group-wallow must be the dramatist's moralistic aim, but the result is closer to ineffective vulgarity.

At the same time, they usually overlook the limitations of centralized defense frameworks that, when deployed physically close to a possible target, become ineffective if DDoS attacks are able to saturate the target's incoming links.

Formal activities were also seen as ineffective by close to one forth.

Tempting as it may be to put off study until the last possible moment, cramming so close to the exams is an ineffective way to study.

Yet because it trafficks in unearned emotions by exploiting the Holocaust, Alzheimer's disease and dementia, the story treads close to being objectionable as well as ineffective.

They were to the left of Zaretzki and Travia, who were seen as ineffective and too close to Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller.

When Gulf states announce steps towards reform, no matter how ineffective, an army of intellectuals close to the respective government immediately sets out to praise them.

Experts close to the issue largely agree that torture is ineffective.

An outsider, he has bristled at what he considered some of the ineffective ways of the old G.M., say people close to the board.

Time and again pharmaceutical firms have seemed close to a breakthrough, only to discover that the medicines being tested were ineffective or had unacceptable side-effects.