Sentence examples for ineffective measure from inspiring English sources

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a privacy advocate, responded by sending a letter to the European Parliament arguing that such filters would be an "ineffective measure that will do little to practically address the concerns of major rights holders while imposing serious costs on the individual rights of European citizens".

Speaking in Tuesday's debate, Lib Dem MP Stephen Williams said he agreed property wealth in the UK was "woefully under-taxed" but he said Labour were wrong to link the mansion tax to the re-introduction of the 10p tax band, describing it as a "completely ineffective" measure.

"The 'war against terrorism' waged over the past 15 years... has shown that restricting human rights in order to combat terrorism is a serious mistake and an ineffective measure which can even help terrorists' cause," Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Nils Muiznieks noted.

At a high buffering capacity, pH value is an ineffective measure of the stability of an anaerobic process.

Students rated themselves less positively after participation in the program (p = 0.038), suggesting that self-evaluation was an ineffective measure of actual performance or that the program helped them learn to more accurately assess their abilities.

The fact that students rated themselves less positively after the experimental manipulation suggests that either TCom was detrimental to students' ability to therapeutically communicate or that students' self-evaluation of communication skills is an ineffective measure of actual performance.

The government's grudging and ineffective measures to relieve the famine's distress intensified the resentment of British rule among the Irish people.

"After four years of stagnant growth, falling incomes, rising costs and persistently high unemployment, the American economy doesn't need more artificial and ineffective measures," Mitt Romney's campaign said in a statement.

If we want to focus on the safety of the family today, we have to acknowledge that we need to stop the fragmentary and ineffective measures that have been undertaken for so many years – I know it well and that is why I am going to present relevant proposals in a moment.

Back in 2004, Greg Mankiw declared, in the Economic Report of the President, that But now, after the Fed has finally moved a bit in the direction of doing something about the Lesser Depression, Mitt Romney – supposedly advised by Mankiw among others – is outraged: [T]he American economy doesn't need more artificial and ineffective measures.

Worse, they are channelling funds into ineffective measures.