Sentence examples for ineffective measures from inspiring English sources

He overreached by including ineffective measures, such as a ban on military-style assault weapons.

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

The idea has worked in the past, in the rescue of Lloyd's of London, for example, but it is politically difficult and may not happen - some bankers fear piecemeal and ineffective measures instead.

"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.

The British government's grudging and ineffective measures to relieve the famine's distress intensified the resentment of British rule among the Irish people, and, by the time Ireland achieved independence in 1922, its population was barely half what it had been in the early 1840s.

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.

As the fighting progressed, both governments reluctantly resorted to conscription the Confederates first, in early 1862, and the Federal government more slowly, with an ineffective measure of late 1862 followed by a more stringent law in 1863.

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".

Corporate performance is currently the best proxy for measuring governance, but at Enron where for several years the board was lauded as the gold standard that proved to be an ineffective measure.

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.