On the defensive across the country and staring down an election that could see them reduced to an ineffective minority in the House and the Senate, congressional Republicans are offering a new argument to voters: the danger of single-party rule in the nation's capital.
Actually, in my mind, I do not see any great gain in remaining a member of the House, even from a relatively good District, if it means we would be simply a vocal but ineffective minority".
Although the caucus was re-formed after the 2001 elections, some Council members say privately it is ineffective, unlike the minority caucus.
But fairness aside, scientific experiments like ours indicate that such policies are also ineffective: discrimination against sexual minorities would not be eliminated by nondisclosure of sexual orientation, since sexual identity can be detected through appearance alone.
Critics charge that the strategy is ineffective and unfairly targets minorities.
Some are smug, do-nothing coalitions (Estonia and Slovenia), or prickly and ineffective (Poland) or powerless minority governments (Lithuania, Czech Republic), or sleazy and unscrupulous (Hungary, Latvia).The evening gave a chance to go to Nitra, an hour's drive away, to watch an avant-garde British play at a theatre festival.
They argued that the laws were unconstitutional because they resulted in a disproportionate number of ineffective teachers working in minority schools.
On the criminal justice side, open data lead to the discovery of the fact that "stop and frisk" policies in New York were both ineffective and heavily biased against minorities.
Critics argue, however, that it's not only ineffective, but also unfairly targets minorities.
Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to stop collecting fees once charged to families of juvenile delinquents for their incarceration, ending a practice decried by criminal justice advocates as an unfair tax on minorities and an ineffective means of rehabilitating young people who commit crimes.
