Sentence examples for ineffective actions from inspiring English sources

Its report said that because of "the pilot's ineffective actions and his failure to anticipate and correct for these conditions, he was unable to recover".

In Experiment 1, 15-month-olds imitated effective and ineffective actions on two similarly designed toys.

Thorndike found that the cats improved their reaction time by ignoring the ineffective actions and performing the useful ones.

The lack of a proper definition of the problem hinders the design of prevention strategies, often leading to implementation of inappropriate and ineffective actions.

But, problems, failures and mistakes as well as incorrect or ineffective actions, are very likely occurrences in the daily business of SMEs and for this reason, in practice, minor incidents and near misses are worth analyzing since in slightly different circumstances the consequences could have been quite serious.

Lousy, ineffective actions lead to lousy outcomes.

Concerns that Haiti's fragile democracy must not be knocked off course have to be weighed against the human tragedy that will result from ineffective action.

In December 1838, after years of debate and ineffective action, the emperor appointed Lin Zexu as commissioner in Canton with instructions to stamp it out.

When I visited Wieseltier at his office, in Washington, he excoriated the President for an hour, calling him a "coldhearted realist" who deploys "high moral language followed by inaction, or grudging action, or ineffective action," thus emboldening Vladimir Putin and Assad.

Heavily outgunned, the German force attempted to flee and then fought a desperate and ineffective action against the British force.

The Kremlin has cast its intervention in Syria, its biggest in the Middle East since the 1991 Soviet collapse, as a common sense move designed to roll back "international terrorism" in the face of what it says is ineffective action from Washington.