Sentence examples for ineffective attempts from inspiring English sources
The hopelessly ineffective attempts of US troops to win the "hearts and minds" of Afghans.
He describes the Chinese government's erratic and ultimately ineffective attempts at Internet control.
Some investors worry that the prime minister's plans are not much different than the largely ineffective attempts made by his predecessors, including Mr. Abe during his previous stint in 2006 and 2007.
It's a world away from the slick glibness that marks British TV's perpetually ineffective attempts to ape The Daily Show, coming up with a more thoughtful model that offers real insight into serious issues, as well as consistently delivering big laughs.
The result is expensive and mostly ineffective attempts to protect communications we don't benefit from storing.
A possible scenario is a worsening of the ongoing decline that will likely cause governments to make ineffective attempts to control metropolitan wasteland by using police force to impose a(n) (il)legitimate authority.
The movie is Almodóvar's satirical venting of national exasperation with the economy, the king and perhaps even Spain itself – a troubled country that the plane is making its hazardous and entirely ineffective attempt to leave.
This time, Sony's army of lawyers have threatened news organizations and individual Twitter accounts with lawsuits in an atrocious and ultimately ineffective attempt to prevent discussion of their now-public internal emails, demonstrating exactly how they feel about the First Amendment.
Gary G. Sick, a former National Security Council staff member who specializes in Iran and who is now a research scholar at Columbia University, said he saw in Mr. Netanyahu's speech a somewhat ineffective attempt to abort the momentum that Mr. Rouhani had sought to build.
Yet he had no qualms about tapping America's emergency stockpile, the strategic petroleum reserve, in an effort to combat high fuel prices after the Libyan civil war, an ineffective attempt to wield a puny weapon for short-term political gain.
As such, the Chancery issued injunctions in an ineffective attempt to prevent its use.
