Sentence examples for if ineffective from inspiring English sources

Paul is not simply a well-meaning if ineffective liberal.

If you mentioned the cult US sitcom Parks and Recreation, then a small minority would recognise Ansari as Tom Haverford, aka Darwish Sabir Ismael Gani, the cocky if ineffective bureaucrat in parks administration.

The paradox was not lost on some commentators that Mr. Bush mentioned steps toward reform by friends like Saudi Arabia, which is basically viewed as a repressive monarchy, while demanding freedom in Iran, which has an elected, if ineffective, Parliament and raucous internal political debates.

Beginning with the regulation of local government in the first part of the century and marked by famous if ineffective challenges to the powers exercised by the executive during two world wars, a body of public-law remedies was slowly developed to challenge the executive's freedom to act or at least to call it to account for its actions.

State television endlessly replayed footage of protesters celebrating in front of a burning building, interspersed with triumphalist comment from such exiled counter-revolutionaries as the People's Mujahideen Organisation reviled by many Iranians for fighting on the Iraqis' side during the war of 1980-83 and the genial, if ineffective, elder son of the former Shah.

Medications for behavior need to be titrated and monitored over time for efficacy and safety, and subsequently tapered if ineffective.

NATO bases come under frequent, if mostly ineffective, fire.

Nearly 11 years since its establishment, there's plenty of evidence that the TSA is inefficient, and if not ineffective, at least less effective than it should be.

The same goes for political critique: it is relatively easy (if often ineffective) to do so frontally or in confrontation.

Policies should be changed if found ineffective.

Some patients who were resistant to the given treatment were switched to another treatment and if again ineffective to a third or forth treatment.