Sentence examples for ineffective effort from inspiring English sources
Dozens were injured in the ultimately ineffective effort, and the protests were reenergized by the assault.
It was a combined ineffective effort by the right-handers Don Wengert and Kerry Ligtenberg and the left-hander Terry Mulholland, who was charged with the loss.
The practice, begun in early April and noted at the time by a Reuters news agency report, has continued, reflecting a determined, if ultimately ineffective, effort to circumvent sanctions, the officials said.
On the opening day of each new session, the judges carry bouquets into court with them, and sprigs of sweet-scented herbs are strewn on the floor of the building — a now traditional ceremony to mark what used to be a practical, if possibly ineffective, effort to make bearable the stench of the Newgate cells.
The administration tried a number of times to derail the congressman's criticism of the Iraq war, including a largely ineffective effort to get senior military officials to publicly rebuke him (Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, was the only one to do the administration's bidding there).
Ineffective effort indexes per hour also were similar across the four periods.
And ineffective efforts to deal with corruption seem only to have made things worse.
Who would have thought that a veteran reliever who once converted 84 successive save opportunities would be capable of such blatantly ineffective efforts?
A muddled and hypocritical foreign policy has created bitter enemies across the globe and angered US allies, yet Clinton supports the rudderless and demonstrably ineffective efforts of President Obama without a hint of irony.
There were a few trickle-up measures: modest individual income tax cuts, repeated but very ineffective efforts to help those subjected to foreclosure, and extensions of unemployment compensation benefits.
Many experts had assumed the champion's supposedly superior strength would make a telling difference in the middle rounds, but instead his largely ineffective efforts served only to highlight the other man's superiority.
